Well, after a fabulous day in Park City on Saturday, there are once again wonderful pictures....which I do not have. So in the meantime, I shall describe our adventures with detail and you can look at Erika's blog for about four pictures (mybyu.blogspot.com).
We (Adam, David, Colin, Erika, and me) started out the morning around 9:00 am and headed off to Park City, which the kind of help of Julie, David's GPS system (she had a few faults, but we were very forgiving. We started out at the outlet malls and went through almost every store there was (probably not true, but it sure seemed like it---we started out going in every store and then we realized that these stores weren't even the ones we wanted to see and that by the time we got to the good ones, we would be burned out--so we skipped a few). It was actually quite fun to shop with the opposite sex, because you get good opinions on your own clothes and also have quite a large influence on what boys choose to buy. I was very pleased with my turnout--I've already worn it all! I got a pair of jeans and two shirts from Gap (one a long sleeved, cream, light sweater thing and the other a light orangeish shortsleeved turtleneck--both good for wintertime) and a beautiful white pea coat at Old Navy, one which will go with both black and brown!!!
At the outlet mall, we met up with another friend Ashley, and then we left and headed off to lunch. Because the place the guys really wanted to go to was closed, we followed our noses and ended up at this quaint diner called "Road Island Diner". I was soooo excited, cause it was like a real, old-timey diner! It was pretty fun and rather delicious (the burger's outside was crunchy!), although my food came about a half hour after everyone else was finished with theirs and it put me in kind of a bad mood and I asked the waitress if I could get it for free. She was obviously new and didn't really know what to do and went to find her manager thinking she could probably get it half off. Then she came back about 15 minutes after that saying she couldn't find the manager and all she could give me was a free desert.
So, I asked for the $16.00 ice cream sundae trough.
At her reaction, I felt bad, so instead asked for the $5.00 Death by Chocolate, which was still pretty good---there's a picture of that on Erika's blog (also a picture of our table and my food all by its lonesome and my incredibly forced smile). We all shared it and then left and headed up to David's family's cabin.
When we arrived at the cabin, there was melting snow on the ground and the inside was frigid. We shivered around for a while as we waited for the heat to warm up the house. We then took a short nap (I think we were in some kind of stage of hypothermia--I was so cold and all I wanted to do was sleep, haha!) We slept for a little bit, and then David, Colin, Erika, and I went for a little hike while Adam and Ashley slept for a while more. We went out and said hello to the horses that graze on their property (they rent out grazing I think) and one of them started to lip the white sweater that I was wearing...that was Adam's. I felt pretty bad about that cause it left a greenish-brown dirty spot right in the middle of his sweater, but he said it wouldn't be hard to get out at all. Hopefully he was right. He hasn't said anything about it. We then left the horses and hiked a little bit more up the mountain. We were hiking as the sun was setting, so we wanted to get some pictures of us and the valley, and the way we did it was hang the camera on a tree branch, turn the timer on, and then all group together! David almost fell down the mountain a few times trying to get back from the camera in time (steep slope combined with snow), but we all survived and took some fun pictures. After we walked back, we made some hot chocolate and 5 year old popcorn and sat around for a bit. Then we said goodbye to Park City and drove home.
It was a really, really fun day and so great to go on another little mini-vacation. It makes it so much more enjoyable to be in school and in the same place all the time if you do get to get out every once in a while. I think we are thinking of hitting up Bryce Canyon before it gets too cold, and then going back up to the cabin in a few weeks and actually staying there (since David's aunt and uncle will be there and it will therefore be Honor Code-acceptable). Then Thanksgiving in Idaho (Erika wants to go to Yellowstone) and whatever other wonderful places we randomly decide to go too. I'll somehow get pictures of this weekend and get them accessible, cause it was just so much fun! Anyway, I need to go to bed.
Also, I'm reading
Mere Christianity right now whenever I have time to. It is really interesting and makes me think a lot (also makes me realize that I actually am growing up with my fun-reading is quite theological-ideological and rather unfortunately reminds me of my Engl 252 readings...) But I like it a lot so far, I just wish I had more time to read it. Maybe I'll just sit down tomorrow and read it through, cause that way I'll be able to connect it all better.
Also, I just checked Erika's blog and she has about 3 (or maybe 4?) posts about our trip...just a heads up.
I hope everyone has a wonderful day today (whenever you read this) and that you find some way today to be spontaneously fun!
