We had the most marvelous time in Utah. We went to BROADWAY IN THE DESERT in St George to see my all time favorite play, LES MIZ. This trip had been planned since April, so as it drew closer I got more excited. We have had a truly marvelous summer. We are grabbing each brass ring. It's finally sinking in through in my husband's head that we have to do this. We always dreamed of going away one weekend a month. Truthfully, even though it's just the two of us, in this economy we still cannot do that. However, the few side trips and large trips we have made in the last few years has made up for the years in the 70's and 80's when we were lucky we could afford the car and go food shopping with it.

Steve has a horrible memory. He can read and remember everything. However, he cannot remember if he is told something. Unlike myself who can remember way too much of what someone has told me but cannot read and remember most anything on the written page. It can be extremely frustrating for both of us. So in the last few years when it finally dawned on us that was the problem, we decided to embrace our differences and use them accordingly. I am the memory. He is the reader. It seems to work 90% of the time.

Steve forgot he saw Les Miz in Las Vegas 5 years ago. He loved it then and he loved it more when we saw it last week. The drive to St George is about 2 hours or so from our home. We always get lost and now that we have a portable GPS system, it has helped us not only to get to our destination, but there is hardly an argument in the car getting there. The scenery with the mountains on the way to St George is stunning. We have glorious mountains where we live, but for some reason theirs are stunning. We got to our motel and to our surprise, the room was ready. We got in and immediately put on our bathing suits and got into the pool. It was 102 degrees in St George. The pool was quite refreshing.  We took a little nap and then got dressed for the show. 

The drive to the show was about 15 minutes. It is in an outdoor Amphitheater and up in the mountains.
 

Breathtaking, to say the least. Last week, when I gave Steve the option of eating at the outdoor buffet in the theater area, he agreed. I purchased the tickets online and we were ready to roll. The dinner was fine. The food was good. The people were great. However, the bees were in full gear. There is a reason I do not like eating outdoors. So perhaps that wasn't my best choice to do so. After dinner, we listened to a small concert of two of the people who performed in Les Miz doing songs from their individual CDs. They each performed Barry Manilow, Garth Brooks, etc songs. The best part was that we all sang along and no one told us to SHHHHSH.

On to the show. The gates opened to this lovely theater and we found our reserved seats. Are you ready? Row D CENTER. Not chopped liver. Absolutely perfect seats!!. I asked the gentleman in front of us to take our photo. Steve was probably embarrassed, but when it's only the two of you, one is out of the photo all the time. Why not ask someone to take a photo of the two of you as a memory? Well that's my theory. And frankly once the photo was taken, Steve was happy about it. I love being in photos. And so does Steve.
 

The show was the best we had ever seen. This was my fourth go round of seeing this show. I saw it on the Broadway stage in NY as well as two times in Las Vegas. This was the absolute best cast and the best lead Jean Val Jean I have ever heard. We were so impressed that we vowed to come back next year for whatever shows are available.

We came home the next day and rewashed and repacked and in less than 24 hours were on a plane to Houston. Luckily, I can sleep standing up so sleeping on an airplane is not a challenge. We arrived on time and went directly to meet, Ali, Anna and Seth. When Seth saw us all he could do was jump and down and run to kiss Grandma Max and Grandpa Steve. There is no money or gift better than that. We then went to get our luggage with our grandson holding both Steve and my hand and off we went to have lunch. Seth's new favorite place is Chic fil A. We do not have one here in Vegas so it was fun trying a new fast food place. Ali decided it would make more sense to go through the drive thru and bring the food home. So we did that and enjoyed our first meal at their home. Anna was in her high chair grabbing her Cheerios and she was cooing and laughing and babbling. Then Ali needed to take the dog out for his shot. She left the children with us (oh boy now that was soo difficult) and we had a great time with the kids.

We played and had fun with the kids. We ate with both the bigger kids and our grand ones. We went to a hatchery to view the fish.