Thanksgiving Video

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Thanksgiving

This year we spent Thanksgiving down in St. George with my parents and my brothers family. On Wednesday we went to two different petroglyph sites. I hadn't been to either of those sites since I was a little kid, I didn't even remember going there until we got there and it sparked my memory. Thanksgiving morning the boys went out shooting and we also did a little searching for some new dig sites that were found during the southern parkway construction. Many thanks to the girls for making such a delicious Thanksgiving dinner. On Friday Matt's family went out to cut down a Christmas tree so the rest of us went over to a little museum in Hurricane that has a really cool collection of arrowheads among other neat stuff. After dinner on Friday we all went over to Heritage Park to ride the carousel and play in the water fountains. On Saturday everyone else had left so we went down to the Virgin River in Mesquite to go bowling and play games in the arcade. It was lil Robby's first time bowling and he had a blast. After Mesquite we took a small hike in St. George to look for some Anasazi pit dwellings I saw on a map while researching other sites that we saw pictures of at the Hurricane museum. We found the site and stumbled upon and active archaeological dig. The two guys up there digging were way cool and let us look around and take pictures. They have been involved in numerous sites in the area over the years and the most notable one is the Red Cliffs Archaeological Site that we visited over spring break in 2012. While it was really cool to see it was kind of sad because there was a huge billboard stuck right on top of the site and garbage dumped all over the place. In doing research looking for new places to visit I realized how many of these sites are ruined by greedy people and land development. I kind of feel like it was an honor to meet those two men that care so much about preserving the past. These men don't have any funding for the dig and aren't seeking anything in return. I wish I could have spent more time with them. Out of all the Thanksgivings in my life the majority of them have been spent in St. George and I hope that tradition continues.
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