Cedar weekend

On Thomas's birthday, last Friday, Mike took the day off and we all spent it together with some of our homeschool friends on a field trip. We started the day by meeting up at the Renaissance Fair, where I (of course) ended up in trouble. (Thanks for taking photos, Joey -- my camera was buried in camping equipment).




Thomas attempted climbing the rock wall, we did some great people (and cat??) watching, and got to see the people who practice at a local park every week do some demos of medieval fighting. An interesting morning, for sure.

After the Ren Fair we headed up the mountain a bit for a picnic lunch with the group, including cake for the birthday boy. Our family ditched everyone for a bit to go further up the mountian to Cedar Breaks National Monument and snag a campsite for the weekend. We got our tent set up and joined back up with our crew in time to go to the Greenshow at the Cedar City Shakespeare Festival.

Every night of the festival there is a free performance before the plays. I have no idea what has been on offer in the past or if the show is the same every night. But the one we caught had a sort of German/Irish-pub/beer theme to all the singing and dancing. They were quite good and even the younger set were entertained by it all.

Some photos from the rest of our weekend spent doing the usual camping stuff in the amazing weather found up over 10,000 feet above sea level.

junior ranger hike

I think he's seen one too many Facebook photos of our teenage friends.

atop Brian Head

just having a rest