Day 1- Hotel, Ride, Food

We dropped the boys off at my folks around 10:30 Friday morning, and headed down South. No worries with leaving the kids there, they wouldn't even stop playing with Grandma and Grandpa long enough to say goodbye! The drive down went much faster than I had expected with Jon and me in separate cars. We had fun.

After we dropped the car off, we went to our hotel to check in and to change for our "warm up" ride. There's a new La Quinta that just opened in Bloomington and it was another nice surprise. When I read that it opened in January and the rate was just right, I booked it, hoping for the best. It was really nice. The room was huge and had plenty of room for our bikes.
We then went out to Santa Clara on our search for the Barrel Roll Trail. We found an awesome website for mountain biking and this trail was one that seemed perfect for my out-of-shape self and our first ride of the year. It also seemed like a good opportunity for me to get used to my new clipless pedals. (More on that later.)

Unfortunately, we never actually found the trail we were looking for, but we were starting to lose daylight and figured we better get going. We rode around some four-wheeler trails that were pretty hammered and I realized I am not completely healthy yet, and I am definitely out of shape! It was beautiful though, and somewhere near 70 degrees. All three of these pictures were taken from the same spot-where we started the ride. We love St. George.
After our ride, we were STARVING and Mexican sounded so good to me. We asked some locals for a recommendation and again, we were pleasantly surprised. Eat here if you're ever on St. George Blvd. looking for some authentic Mexican. Yum.After dinner, we went back to the hotel, soaked in the hot tub for a while and went out for Neilsen's Frozen Custard for our little late night sweet. Ok it wasn't that late, and we were totally in bed by 11 and out by 11:10, but it felt late. I'd like to say that without our little non-sleepers, we slept awesome, but the damage has been done, the habit is not broken in one night. I get up at 2, 4 and 7 no matter what. Day 2 came pretty fast, but Day 1 was great.