After braving the cold in Huntington, we were looking forward to the 80F and sunshine every day in Hurricane, promised by Lyle. Well, it rained all day and was cold! Okay, it wasn’t too bad after that one day of rain.
We spent time with Mary and Lyle (Bob), Donna’s sister and brother in law. Visiting was fun, and Kevin got to return a favor by helping Bob install a range hood. This doesn’t come close to covering all the assistance Bob provided over the last two years building our house… We also played many rounds of golf (the card game, since Bob was still recovering from surgery), and just enjoyed hanging out.
We took one day to travel to nearby Mesquite, NV to play Bingo. Bob was the big winner of the day, which will surprise very few who know him. Mequite was nice, and the Virgin River Casino looked like a fun place to stay and gamble.
Hurricane is in Southwest Utah, very close to Zion National Park which we visited and you can read about in another blog. We stayed at the Sand Hollow State Park, which was lovely. Sand Hollow is on the site of a reservoir creating a great spot for fishing, sunning on the red rocks, or cruising the surrounding dunes and desert on a ATV/UTV – or on foot, as we did. There was a curfew for those staying at the park because of the concern of invasive mollusks coming into the reservoir on boats. So we had to finish out visit every day by about 8:30 to be back in the park by 9:00 so they didn’t lock us out. But the park was clean, the camping spots were ample, and the park was beautiful.
