Waltours 2014

About five years ago, Grandpa Woodbury began traveling to Southern Utah every fall with his sons and sometimes grandsons.  He called this annual pilgrimage "Waltours" (after his name Walt).  This year, grandpa extended the invitation to Waltours to the entire Woodbury family and it turned into a mini family reunion.  We all headed down to St George, Utah in mid-October to see the sights and enjoy the gorgeous weather.

We had planned to visit Zion National Park, but happened to be there on a very busy day, so we skipped it.  Which turned out just fine.  It had been quite a while since many of us had seen each other and we were happy to catch up.  We visited the Grafton Ghost Town where our great-grandmother taught school during it's "hey-day" of a community.  It might look familiar - it has been the set for several movies, including "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."

In the evening we visited the adorable St George Children's Museum.  We had free reign of the museum and the kids (and adults) had a whole lot of fun.  We loved that they had a shadow picture room just like the old Salt Lake City Children's Museum had featured.  It was nostalgic to be in there with my cousins.

 On Saturday we began with a walking tour of old town St George.  Grandpa grew up in this area and we saw his childhood home and his grandmother's home, along with an old general store that has been turned into a quaint sweet shop (with every pleasing flavor of soda imaginable).  We also toured Brigham Young's winter home.

 We ended the tour in the town center and enjoyed a picnic lunch.  Then there was lots of time to play in the splash pad, relax on the grass, or ride the carousel.  Berry was fascinated by the many bronze sculptures around the town center.  She would hug them and talk to them like they were her new best friends.  After some downtime at the hotel, we drove up Snow Canyon and took a hike in the beautiful red rock.  The finale of the evening was a delicious dinner at a local restaurant.

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 The reunion was short and very sweet and we are so happy that we were able to go!