This past weekend, I went down to my favoritest state of Utar.
(More commonly called Utah.)
Erin was up here for a couple days and she really wanted to go to a Mindy Gledhill thing in Provo and being the groupie that I am, I followed her down. And by followed, I mean she drove me.
We left at 2:30ish on Friday afternoon (after I got out of class and we quickly stopped at Broulim's to get some roadtrip snacks.) We drove and drove and drove to Provo. I think I got a sunburn from the car ride. We talked about anything and everything. And we ate out snacks. We got to Provo (after driving through all sorts of crazy construction, good job happy valley) and we quickly found our concert location. AND across the street from the parking garage/rooftop was this gem.
That's right. It's baby Sammy's. So cute!
We were going to eat but then we decided that we weren't that hungry but we did need to go to the bathroom/Erin wanted to keep up tradition and have a costume change. So we walked to the Marriot that was just down the street and around the corner. It was a pretty legit hotel. There was a doorman who was super nice and they even had a gift shop AND a free shuttle to the MTC. haha but we used their fantastic bathroom and we were on our way. After a quick picture (or four.)
We then went back to the rooftop and found our seats. Aka ground. We actually found some great seats (right up front). And we didn't even have to move people's blankets. We hung out and watched people eat Cafe Rio and Wendy's and took some heartfelt pictures.
(notice the empty blankets behind us? more on that soon.)
After sitting there and people watching/talking for 30 minutes, the warm up band started. I didn't really understand the need for a warm up band but whatever. I went with it.
After that, they started the show. And when I say they, I mean CJane. From cjanerun.com. Who ALSO happens to be Nie Nie's sister. Who's best friends with Mindy. But speaking of Nie Nie, guess who sat on those blankets behind us?! If you guess Nie Nie, you're wrong because she's in Arizona having surgery but if you guessed her family including her practically identical sister Lucy, then you're right! Their kids are so cute and we were smiling and laughing at them all night. Definitely made the night better.
But we got to see Mindy Gledhill perform (the reason we went) and we also watched Meaghan Smith.
Mindy!
Meaghan!
They were both really good and it was a super fun show. Definitely worth the drive. After the show, Erin talked to some music people because she's going to be famous some day and then we were both very hungry and we needed somewhere to eat. We decided to go to Brick Oven and it was delicious. We got to sit in the Retro Booth (est. 1956) which was awesome and their food was yummy. Plus, the manager/asst. manager were really funny. And our waitress had VERY good ears lets just say.
By this time, it was very late (like 11:30) and we still had to drive back to Salt Lake. We drove back, took the elevator to the 10th floor, made a bed, brushed our teeth (we'd been wanting to all day long!) and then went to sleep.
Saturday, we woke up kinda late, like 10:30. Ate Cars cereal and then we went to Gateway. We bought some matching sunglasses from this cool sunglass guy and we ate Ben & Jerry's shakes while hiding behind a bed in Anthropologie while smelling soap. Productive. After we walked through the whole mall, we decided to leave. We didn't really know where we wanted to go but we figured we should eat. So we went home and ate some leftover pizza with a tomato/cucumber salad. We ate it out on our balcony and people watched from the 10th story. good times.
We were going to go swimming but I didn't bring a suit (oops!) so instead we went on a walk to the Capital Building. We took lots of pictures and we were there for a VERY long time.
It was a very exciting place to be, obviously. After we explored like the entire building, we went outside and found a fun little fountain that these annoying girls were playing in. No worries though, some ranger came over and told them the rules.
You can see the troublemakers in the above picture.
We were very contemplative during our adventure. We wondered about the tiles in the Capital and you can obviously see Erin in the above picture contemplating life. While we sat here we watched our friends take out all the chairs from the Capitol building and wheel them away somewhere (there was just a graduation for some Argosy University (ever heard of it? neither had we.) in there right before we got there...)
Anyway, after we explored the Capital, we went across the street to take some pictures with some buffalo.
We then decided to go to the secret park hidden inside a little valley. Apparently it was National Take your Engagement/Wedding/Child pictures because there were lots of people with photographers in tow. We saw probably 5 couples taking engagements, 4 brides (and their groom, except one) and a family taking pictures of their toddler. It was crazy.
We saw some girl lose a shoe (that's what happens when you are playing too close to a very rapidly moving stream).
AND the best part of the entire day was when we had just crossed over a little bridge and we saw a horse-drawn carriage pull up. Out steps a cute little couple. She starts taking pictures and he is just watching her. We didn't really suspect anything going on until after we had taken a drink from the delicious water fountain (the water in the park tasted better than the water in the Capitol....). We were walking along when we see this cute guy on bended knee and the girl is in tears. He gives his little speech (we couldn't hear it, we were walking away) and then they hug for like an eternity. (She obviously said yes. haha) The driver of the carriage comes back down from up the street and they hop right in and drive away. All three of them having huge smiles. It was so fun to be part of their moment. :)
(Right to left of this little stream is the proposal site. We were standing on this cute bridge to take the picture....)
We then walked down to Temple Square (we just followed the little creek) and we walked through the Temple grounds and we were both getting a little hungry so we were going to go to The Lion House Pantry to get some delicious rolls but we got there at 8:05 and they closed at 8. We were so sad. So we just walked back home.
Salt Lake Temple. :)
For dinner we had more pizza and Cheetos and we watched "Life as we Know it". We also made some delicious cookies. It was a pretty good movie. The little girl in it was adorable so it was definitely worthwhile. We stayed up very late talking and watching sheep eat/slurp.
Sunday we slept in (maybe a little too late, oops!) and then we got ready for church and went. We only stayed for part of church because I had to leave to catch my shuttle. The shuttle ride was fairly uneventful. I've taken it so many times that it doesn't really feel very long anymore which is bueno. I also made a friend, always good. I was the first one on (in Salt Lake) and the last one to get off (in Rexburg.) Yay.
It's kinda good to be back but this week is going to be insanely hectic which I'm not looking forward to. I loved having a summer weekend. But now it's school time. :(
Until next time friends.
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