Driving through St. George is pleasant, from our experience. We encountered minimal traffic and were able to find parking quite easily in the historic district. It's a lovely little area that, perhaps not all that surprising given its name, has a long history behind it that the locals are pretty proud of. These buildings comprise some of the very first to ever be erected in the area. Luckily for us, the area and significant buildings therein, are lovingly maintained. It's all been engineered to be eminently walkable, too, with parks and public art to make the journey more interesting. As a couple of Vegas kids, our hometown was in the high 90s or low hundreds by this point in both the year and the day, but the climate was much milder which meant the stroll was exquisite. It was warm, yes, but more like 80-something degrees, a level of heat that allowed many children to go scampering barefoot across the sun-baked cement at the nearby water parks without burning their little tootsies. I'm not sure what my favorite aspect of this area was, because there was a lot of nice things to admire. The public space was very well manicured and maintained, with little garbage floating around or lingering in untended corners... which, in most large cities, seems like an unavoidable sight. The mild climate allows a wide array of different plants and blossoms to flourish and it's noticeable in the gardens' cornucopias of color.
One of the first things we noticed, aside from the giant sun-glistening spider standing above the roadway (one of many, many roundabouts in the city), was a bronze (I think?) statue of some older kids flinging smaller children. I know that it's meant to look like a rousing, carefree game of childhood fun but it also reminds me of that statue in Oslo, Norway, where there's a dude being attacked by babies. That's one of the cool things about art, though- it's always subject to interpretation. Just look up your favorite movie on Rotten Tomatoes to prove that point. What to one person looks like a game, is another person's "fling the baby!" 
Check back tomorrow for better photos from our walk through the area!
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XOXO,
NAU
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