Our trip was lovely. Ever since we moved, Mike and I seem to take bad weather with us each time we go back--and true to form, Utah gave us some truly crap weather when we first arrived. As soon as Anna's wedding was over, though, it warmed up, stopped raining, and became the
gorgeous Utah autumn that I know and adore.
Wednesday night: Arrival at the Provo Municipal Airport. I am hesitant to talk this up too much because I don't want our secret to become too well known... But since you are my friends I will tell you--flying into and out of Provo is fantastic. Less stressful, simpler, quicker... Seriously. With any luck I will never see the Salt Lake airport again. (Also, Frontier now serves warm chocolate chip cookies on their flights! Shameless PR plug, obviously, but who even cares
those cookies are good.)
Thursday: Hung out with Dan, Candice, nephews and brand new niece, Sapphire Katarina Starr Shorten. Weather cleared up enough to give us hope for Friday; saw a terrible movie (Zookeeper), hiked Rock Canyon, went to wedding dinner at Brick Oven.
Friday: The Wedding of Anna and Bryan. Spent the day setting up, wedding at 4:00, reception at 6:00.
Saturday: Hung out with Liz and Jeremy in the morning, lost track of time, and were not ready when Dan came to pick us up for the X96 Big-Ass Show in Salt Lake. Mike and Dan dropped me off to meet my online friend Megan for lunch. Then she and I went to a Feminism-and-the-Church conference at the University of Utah, after which she dropped me off at the show, where we saw most of Panic at the Disco (lead singer had malaria). That guy in the blue is the lead singer of The Neon Trees; it was basically Panic at the Disco karaoke, with various lead singers of other bands filling in for different songs. It was still fun, and the lead singer of the Brobecks was also there. I was happy (except for the tree
right in our line of sight).
Sunday: Walked in the mountains up Provo Canyon. (Gorgeous.) Went to Dan and Candice's to hang out before family dinner. After dinner, played Boggle with Rick and Nathalie (I won, and Nathalie drew me a champion's belt and made me hold it over my head while she cheered). Watched
The Terminal while Rick read the book we gave him for his birthday and Nathalie slept (Mike joined her toward the end).
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| Cillian loved the dinosaur book we gave him, and I love this picture of him reading it. |
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| They followed him around the house like this for about ten minutes; Mike was making zombie noises and asking where they were, pretending he couldn't see them behind him. |
Monday: Lunch with Mike's friends Sam and Ryan, plus Ryan's wife and new baby. Good times. Repacked our room, which had been a disaster ever since the first day when Mike tried to find his work-out clothes without waking me up. Wandered around our beloved Barnes and Noble for a few minutes. Dan, Candice, Kennedy, Mia, Cillian, Foxx, and Sapphire came over for dinner. Played a couple rounds of Boggle with Mike's parents (he won, and displayed the belt). Went to Dan and Candice's to watch a few episodes of
The Big Bang Theory.
Tuesday: Flew out very early. Mike was sick and I got super nauseated on the plane, but no barf bags were needed, and lunch in Denver solved my half of the problem. Benjamin picked us up; spent the rest of the day watching
30 Rock (oh, how we missed Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy in Utah). Not kidding--we watched probably ten episodes.
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| Exit row = actual room for your legs! |
Wednesday: Back to work.
It was a good trip. Still waiting to get rich so we can make it more than once a year.
Thursday: Hung out with Dan, Candice, nephews and brand new niece, Sapphire Katarina Starr Shorten. Weather cleared up enough to give us hope for Friday; saw a terrible movie (Zookeeper), hiked Rock Canyon, went to wedding dinner at Brick Oven.
Jealous! Looks like a ton of fun and beautiful weather. A few things. Why did you even WATCH Zookeeper?? I didn't know they had another baby! Fun! And finally. Did you bring me a cookie?
ReplyDeleteI love that we both flew in and out on the same days on the same airline and we never saw each other! i did fly back with a guy from San Antonio and it made me think of you. And I LOVE Frontier's warm, gooey chocolate chip cookies!!!!! Glad you had a good trip :)
ReplyDeleteIt was a great trip! Thanks for posting pictures. I never seem to take any now that we have a new camera--whatever they're called. Plus Rick keeps it hidden somewhere and it's never charged. Yeah for the Boggle Champion's Belt! Hey, if you got it, flaunt it! If I were any good at crafts, I'd make an actual one with rhinestones and everything! Going to Texas is still one of my goals. Now that the wedding is over...Fall would be my preferred time. I liked the Provo airport. We poked around for a bit and the ride home was a lot nicer since the sun was rising. Gorgeous! I made sure to avoid that poor skunk in the road. Still stunk up the place. You guys are just so much fun to be with. You guys bring such good energy to our family. Anna's been over a couple of times to cook dinner for Bryan. She's kinda of scared of the gas stove but they'll connect it when they get back from Disneyland. It's so cute how she became homemakey overnight. Good for her. Love you guys :D
ReplyDeleteHaha, it is cute imagining Anna learning to cook. :) I guess it could be scary to learn to cook on a gas stove, I'd never really thought about it. We've had one since I started high school, so I got used to it early, and gas stoves are so much nicer than electric! The heat is instant and easier to control, and it saves energy, too.
ReplyDeleteThey're fun pictures, aren't they? I have a lot more that need to be posted on Facebook, and I can't wait to see the photographer's pictures from the wedding! And you guys definitely need to come down here! Theoretically fall should be the best time, but actually it's pretty hard to pinpoint fall here--you're just as likely to get a super hot day, a super cold day, or a rainy day as you are to get fall weather. Spring is amazing here, though, so maybe then! :)
Haha, Dafni, we watched Zookeeper because a friend told us it was actually pretty funny. We will no longer be taking movie advice from said friend. It was definitely the kind of movie kids would love, though--animals talking, silly Adam Sandler voices, and cheesy humor that makes adults cringe.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, Candice had the baby on Monday, two days before we got there. She was so little, and so cute!
And Erica--we looked for you at Denver, but I guess our flights didn't overlap. That is pretty funny that we were flying at the same time, though, especially since it wasn't even a holiday! :)