Vacation
The unexpected free weekend was awesome. We leave for Spain tomorrow, so there might not be any updates for a while. The laptop is going with me, however, so you never know! We'll be back on June 17th.
Surprise Weekend
Looks like I might be in for an unexpected weekend with nothing to do! We were supposed to go camping with our friends Scott and Jessica, but there is a storm coming in at the place we were going to go. The high on Sunday is supposed to be 49 degrees and it's supposed to rain. We could go South, but I think everything will be filled up since it's a long weekend. So, three days with nothing to do.... Sounds good to me!
Get Used To It
Chris' parents were in town last weekend. It was busy and fun.
Thursday night we grilled out and went to a baseball game. It was cheap beer night.
Friday we went to visit the place at which Chris and I want to get are getting married, and put down a deposit! We scored some free pizza, and then hit the Living Traditions festival downtown. It was very cool. Good food, good music, great weather.
We got up and made a lesiurely breakfast/brunch on Saturday, and then we went to the Red Butte Gardens. It was beautiful! We will definately be going back. We followed that with dinner out, and then we went to a play that Chris' cousin (once removed) was in.
On Sunday we went to church, and then came home and chilled and gardened. Steph and Jo came over around 6pm and we grilled out and ate and then watched the (2-hour) season finale of Desperate Housewives.
They left on Monday morning, and it was just us again. We should be preparing for our big vacation (1 week from today!) but instead we're going camping over Memorial Day weekend. Our summer is so busy, we don't have many free weekends for camping, so we need to go when we can!
The weather has been gorgeous lately, and our garden is thriving!! I took some pictures when we first planted it, and I would say that it's grown at least 3 times.
Right, remember how I said in my last post that I hated bullets? Well, I still do, but since I haven't posted at all in March, that's what you're getting. Things we've done in March:
Planted our garden. We rented a tiller and tilled the area where the sand pit used to be, and went to town. I think it's growing, and Chris thinks I'm full of shit. He says that I'm being too ambitious and that the key at this point is to not have it die.
Planted a very pretty iris out back.
Built a clothesline.
Finished scraping the ceiling in our TV room, and painted the walls and ceiling.
Finally hung some damn pictures in our house.
Got eaten alive by mosquitos. I thought we didn't have mosquitos in Utah?!?
Went to church for the first time in over 9 years. There is a Unitarian Church very close to our house that Chris and I have been meaning to visit ever since we moved in. We finally made it there on Mother's Day, and we loved it. We really just want a place to go where we can celebrate our spirituality, and this place was wonderful. We're going to go a few more times to see if we continue to like it.
Did a lot of grilling, chilling, and drinking.
Got the wood floors in our dining room refinished.
Got the previous owners to come and get their shit out of our garage. Don't ask.
Took a sushi rolling class. Although that might have been in April.
Continued on with our Spanish class. La clase es buena!
Planned more of our Spain/Morocco/NYC trip. Two weeks until we leave. I can't wait!
Went the opera to see The Barber Of Seville. It was excellent.
And last, but definately not least, started with the wedding plans. We're going to check out the place we want to get married tomorrow. We've been there a million times, but for some reason neither of us can picture the place where we'd actually do the ceremony.
My future in-laws are coming into town tonight, and we're going to eat a quick dinner and go to a baseball game. Tomorrow is the Living Traditions festival, so we'll be hitting that. Beer and great food. Mmmm. Someday you'll get real post.
Last Weekend of April, in Bullets
I hate doing bullet posts, but last weekend was one of those wonderful weekends during which I was so busy that I couldn't find a second to write. So, bullets it is.
Friday night was a zoo fundraiser, "Bowling for Rhinos". Our friends Scott and Jessica came with their kids. It was a great time, but I bowled horribly. That doesn't matter, though, because I won a bowling ball, and we won a night's stay in Moab and two mountain bike rentals. Sweet, I guess we're going mountain biking this Summer.
Saturday morning we got up early to go to Jesse and Sharon's house to watch the NFL draft. We drank mimosas and ate eggs and laughed at Matt Leinart not being drafted right away. We watch 6 hours of that, and then headed out...
to get ready to go camping! Yay, first camping trip of the season! We drove out to Antelope Island in the Salt Lake, which, to our surprise, there were a lot of campers. We met the same friends from Friday night there, and aside from the bugs (there were tons) it was a great time. I got the best night of sleep that I've had in a while, and woke up refreshed on Sunday.
We came back home on Sunday and spent the day cleaning the garage. I mowed the lawn for the first time this season, and we've been admiring our yard every chance we get, because we're dorks.
We ended Sunday by going out to dinner with our friend John from work. There is a really, really good Indian restraunt in Sandy (suburb of Salt Lake) that we would go to a lot more if it wasn't so far away. It's not that far, it's far for Salt Lake, not for somewhere like LA. Anyway, it was worth it, because it was delicious and we got to go to John's house afterwards and play with his spastic cat.
It was a great weekend, and it helped us avoid scraping the ceiling in our TV room, which is the project of the week at The Crack House. But that's a whole 'nother post...
