natalie ann: July 2021

well oops I totally wrote this way later than I wanted to. long story short a lot has happened this summer and life has got the best of me. I will probably make this short. looking back at spring, it was way fun, or maybe this summer has just been sucky. It was Ethans and I's birthday so that always fun of course. For E's birthday we went to the aquarium, dinner and got vegan cake with some of his sibs. For my birthday we went to splash summit waterpark, red robin, spilled milk icecream and we went to see cruella. a few days earlier we celebrated with my family and got korean bbq + vegan cake. Spring skiing was great. We kept thinking it was our last time and then it would snow and then we would keep going. it was weird skiing in a tank top and shorts.

We didn't take any huge trips, the biggest one we took was one toSaint George! We spent three nights there. It was actually so much fun. I love spending time with ethan. He had just finished the semester and had a quick break so we wanted to do something. We got there on wednesday may 5 and had tacos cause cinco de mayo. and then paddle boarded on quail creek. We then watched the sunset at pioneer park. Thursday we hiked kannarraville falls and then went to sand hollow state park and swam and paddle boarded and cliff jumped. and guess who I ran into there?! my father! haha didn't know he was down there but he was doing a hike with a friend and my mom say that we were super close on find my friends. we then got food and took it to pioneer park to watch another sunset. Friday we drove down to little jamaica and swam in the gorgeous little oasis. We also went down to the virgin river and floated it. There was a little waterfall and ethan of course found a spot to cliff jump. It was a lot of fun! We then got yummy food. And then last minute got tickets to opening night at tuacahn theater for beuty and the beast! It was a blast!!! no regrets. Saturday we went to zion national park. We knew we wouldnt be able to get on the shuttle because they were still doing the shuttle tickets online which are impossible to get so we just did the watchman trail and then swam in the river. And then we biked the pa'rus trail and that was absolutley gorgeous and so fun! We then drove through kolob canyon near sunset so pretty and then got cafe rio and drove home! Really good trip with good food. Even though we had a sketchy cheap hotel ahha. one day we will get a nice hotel down there.

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