This rounds out a week that has been the pits for me and the kids--Luke fell ill (see??! I can't stop myself!!) last Wednesday night, Madelyn on Friday night and me on Sunday night. Mark figures we had viral stomatitis, but with poor Luke it blossomed into full blown hand, foot and mouth disease. We all had fever, aches, chills, sore throats, headaches and fatigue, but he also had a blistering rash all over his extremities. Blech, blech, blech. Luckily, I had Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which is an EXTREMELY long book, to take my mind off things, and lots of ibuprofen. Except sick kids can be awful whiny and needy--have you noticed?? They kept interrupting my reading and napping attempts.
So on Sunday, we'd had enough misery and since we couldn't go to church anyway, we figured we'd go get some fresh air. We ended up packing some sandwiches and heading up Cedar Canyon. Every time I go up there, I can't believe that I live 15 minutes away from such mountainous paradise.
There's a picnic spot right off the road where we stopped for lunch.
Madelyn couldn't get enough of the wildflowers--there were bluebells, buttercups, asters, sunflowers, big dandelion-like puffs and scarlet sage blossoms everywhere.
I love these aspen and pine forests we have up here. They feel like the real deal to me--rather than the scrub and juniper "forests" that dot the otherwise bare rock that I'm used to in southern Utah.
If you concentrate really hard, you can almost convince yourself you're traipsing around Liechtenstein instead of eastern Cedar City...
We had to leave fairly quickly after eating because Mark was out of cell phone range and he was (is still) on call. That always seems to happen when we actually manage to get out of the house and go somewhere...
Back down to town...
Cheese.
We stopped at East Canyon Park to let the kids let off more steam--we normally wouldn't on a Sunday, but they'd had such a dreadful week.
Madelyn showed Luke where the overflowing water fountain was--which kept him entertained for quite a while...
Some of his choicer blisters scabbed over from his rash :/
Coal Creek (?) runs through the park
It's always rather amazing when we go outside this time of year and it's not 1,000°F, like it always is where I grew up. It's usually a respectable 85° or so here. Which almost makes up for our horrible winters.
Now that I'm feeling mostly better, though, I've got a lot of things to wash and children to feed and the entire house to Clorox and such. Better go...
6 comments:
Aww, what a lovely post. How nice to go up the canyon for a while. I love the pictures (except for poor Luke's scabs).
P.S. Thanks again for your helpfulness with our fish this weekend! :)
Oh how I love Cedar City! St George peeps don't always get that but I really do!
And good luck with the clean up post sickness! I always hate that mess!!!
Oh man, sorry everyone was sick. That is so not fun! Glad you're on the mend and hopefully good now.
Glad to see that you guys are all feeling a lot better! Now I can come visit :D I wish we lived closer to the pretty mountain scenery! We love Pinevalley, but that's still a good 45 mins. I want to go picnic-ing! You can tell I'm feeling a little cooped up :P Who knows, we may end up in Cedar someday.. Wherever Shay's future PTA job takes us....
Aw, This post makes me miss Cedar. I LOVED Cedar Canyon, that park, the creek. It is so pretty. I hope you are feeling better at you house. Our house has just been sick adults so thankfully not quite as much mess. Good luck with the aftermath!
I think I need to come visit, eat Pastry Pub and go up the canyon!!!
Oh man, I feel for you. My kids had that really, really bad (Emmy lost 5 pounds in a week and didn't eat for a week and a half) in May after we came home from Disneyland. SO not fun. But I'm glad you decided to get out of the house!!!
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