Monday, July 30, 2012

St. George - Glitter Pit - Spiral Jetty

 On our recent trip to St. George
we visited our favorite fruit/vegetable 
market - Frei's.
We bought tickets for Hairspray @ Tuachan
and took some weird pictures!
 Cute ones though!
 They were having camel rides! 
 Then that night we went to the play! So good.
 
 We took a lovely drive and saw some new petroglyphs -
hmmm that would be an oxymoron -
we saw some petroglyphs that we had never seen before!
 And luckily found the Glitter Pit!
 Which looks like glass.
It also glitters in the sun.
Unfortunately we got there a little too late.
 It was seriously cool.
If you want to visit it when next in St. George
please find directions here! Cause you will not find them
ANYWHERE else!
 We took a little trip to Vegas
and ate at Mesa Grill (thank you Bobby Flay)
 Yummy shrimp tacos!
 
It was so hot while we were there,
Just kidding! Don't you just love Frank Gehry?!
 We found a new fav place for breakfast.
 
And went to our old fav for dinner.
But we didn't have any fun without Paige!
Such sad faces!
 The other day we took our 2nd annual
drive to The Spiral Jetty!
 And my goodness - it never disappoints!
We went with these guys!
 And the sunset was spectacular!
 I couldn't stop taking pictures!
 Someone who had been there recently, but prior to us,
left a tribute to the artist - nice!
 
 The water was so warm.
 The sky and the water - beautiful! 
 I, obviously, couldn't get enough!
 

 Can't wait for our 3rd annual trip out
 to the ends of the earth,
in the middle of nowhere!
I was going to link it but just go to google.com/maps
and type in The Spiral Jetty and you will see what I mean!

Until next time!

2 comments:

  1. Looks like you have had lots of fun! I think we are going to have to plan a trip down to see the glitter pit it looks/sounds cool! I also LOVE the "melted" building picture. It reminds me of the Escher museum from when we were in Europe.

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  2. Re: the glitter pit.
    This site is not open to the public.. it is an active mining claim and has been for years. anyone going there and taking rocks is Claim Jumping
    I know the claim owners. And it is not ok for people to go there.
    Because of sites like yours, people have stolen literally tons of material.

    http://www.good4utah.com/southern-utah/blm-tells-glitter-mine-visitors-stop-mining/820686491

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