Saint George, Utah, Sept 30 to Oct 6th Part 1

 We woke to a windy morning and a gorgeous sunrise. What a blustery night, but I put my ear plugs in and didn't hear anything. lol Had the A/C going most of the night, with the wind too much to open a window.

Good morning.

We packed up a bunch of stuff last night, including doing all my dishes etc. so not to much this morning. After Ray pumped up the tire on the car, we were on our way separately by 7:50 am. The Inverter did not come back on after we unplugged, another issue to check while we are in a bigger centre.

The forecast is for a very windy day going across the plains so wanted to get to Beaver, a 2 hour drive, earlier to miss most of the "big winds". We changed to Mountain time and lost an hour as well. I must say this drive was very "over hill and dale". We crossed several mountain (hills) and back down in to very wide valleys several times before finally getting to Beaver and the I-15. 

The tire held air for me until we got there and Scott, the tire fixer upper only charged $30 to fix. Yeah. We ate a quick lunch at Br King, hooked the car back up and continued on our way to St. George and the McArthur's Templeview RV Park. An hour and a half later we're parked in our site for the next week. The winds definitely picked up and we were pushed side to side many times on this last leg of our journey. Happy to be parked. The forecast is for possibly some rain tonight, but clear for the next 6 days after this blip.

After setting up and having a beverage, we decided to go and enjoy their hot tub here at the resort. Nice and hot, just the way we like it. Fortunately our site is close to the pool.

Just after we got back, we had a brief rain shower. Glad we missed it while we were driving, the wind was bad enough.

Saturday morning woke up to a cloudy sky, but by 7 am it was blue sky above us and only cloudy northeast of us. Our plan this morning is shopping and errands we've been delaying and possibly (my stupid foot) do some touring after that.

After a major shopping at Walmart we decided to go for lunch to the Ocean Buffet. Wow, what a great choice. For $20 each it's all you can eat Seafood/Chinese Buffet, also a bunch of different choices of Sushi. 

One of the biggest buffet's I've seen! Not shown is another sushi table and cold table with prawns and salad stuff, also a hard ice cream stand.

One of two sushi tables

We waddled out of there after eating and decided a walk is needed. Our destination, the Red Hills Desert Garden at Pioneer Park, located on the bluffs north of us.

The Red Hills Desert Garden is a xeriscaped botanical garden in St. George, Utah. It is known for its collection of endangered species of plants and fossil tracks in a water-conserving landscape. It has free admission and dogs are allowed on a leash. 

These blooms remind me of fly ties lol

Gumby Cactus

After wandering around for an hour it's getting quite warm, so time to go back to the MH. Here is a picture of the Children's Museum on the way home. This is in the "Art's District" and we will have to check it out another time as they have interesting sculptures everywhere.

Once back home, we sat outside in the shade for an hour or so. We're having trouble with our inverter, so we needed to make sure it was something simple, or not, as we need to call someone tomorrow. It' getting to the point that if I turned on the A/C the fridge would go offline. 

So, Ray changed out the 300 amp fuse (we carry a spare) as this issue occurred several times in past years. Yeah ... that seemed to be the fix. All systems back on line. Since we are in a city with a Camping World, Ray will pick up another spare. We will be dry camping next week for several days, so it needs to work.

About 4 pm the wind and the clouds came in so we moved inside. No dinner for us tonight, we are still full. The clouds cleared so Ray headed out at 5:30 to take some night shots of the red hills at Pioneer Park.

Looking down on the picnic area.

Notice the tiny arch?

Continuing the theme

Visitors are all over like ants climbing around. Kiddos everywhere 

View of Hurricane Bluffs

When Ray came back he noticed a rainbow behind our MH.

At 8 pm we decided to go for another hot tub as it cooled down outside. Hard to contemplate going into a hot tub when you are already hot. lol A great way to end our evening.