Road Trip!

So I went on a road trip with two of my friends... Melanie and Ashley! Things were going great. We left on Thursday morning. We thought we were going to be on time.. but three girls are never really on time! It is funny! So we drove through Wyoming. We were half way to Utah when Melanie got a call from her mom. We found out that Mels mom has a brain tumor, and is having surgery on it on Monday. It was very shocking news, and Melanie was just devastated. I don't blame her. I would be just a wreck. So we decided to drive to Utah instead of turning around. If anything happened Mel would just fly home and Ashley and I would drive back. As the day went on we found out more details on the situation. When we got to Utah we weren't sure of what was going on... it took the entire day and the next morning to solidify plans. We ended up staying in Utah until Sunday. We drove back on Sunday instead of Monday as planned. We also took Lisa, Melanies sister back home with us. We did have some fun this weekend despite the sadness. It was still there hanging over us, but I feel like we were able to cheer Mel up a little bit. On Friday we slept in pretty late... Actually we woke up surprisingly early for how tired we were. But we ended up staying in bed talking for the majority of the morning. It was glorious! I love sleep... and I definitely need to catch up on it all the time! Haha So we got ready for our day, and left Ashley's aunts house and picked up a friend in Provo to take him to the airport. (We were staying in Lehi by the way.) We took him to the Salt Lake Airport and then went to the Gateway Mall. I love that mall, it is so nice and just fun. It was pretty cold so that was kind of a pain to walk around outside. But we went to lunch at California Pizza Kitchen. It was just great. We got the bill, and I was going to get my wallet to pay, and I realized that I left my credit card at Ashley's aunts house. I was bummed because that was our big shopping day, and I didn't get to buy anything! I was pretty upset at myself for that. Then I thought about it, and wondered if it was meant to be... haha as silly as that sounds. But I am not doing so great in the money department right now, so that may have been a blessing in disguise? Maybe? haha who knows! I look at it that way... So they shopped, I window shopped. It was a good time none the less.

After the mall we went to Temple Square and took pictures in front of the temple. That is really what I wanted to do this weekend. We walked around taking pictures, and we even talked to some Sister Missionaries. They took us in the Visitors Center to listen to the little thing on Christ... You know up at the top with the statue of Jesus. We took a picture in front of the statue. I loved seeing that again. That is probably my favorite thing in the Visitors Center. Actually all the pictures are so wonderful. I just love learning about Christs' life. It is so amazing, and so uplifting. We talked to the Sisters for a bit, then left. So we went back down to Provo to have dinner with Mels friend Blake. We went to Olive Garden, and had a great time. We were going to go see Alice in Wonderland, but it was all sold out. So we watched a movie at Ashleys brothers apartment. That was good until I got sick to my stomach and we had to leave. (The whole trip we were pretty much all sick.... We are always sick. It sucks) But we went home and slept.

On Saturday morning we woke up pretty early because we went with Lisa and Melanie's aunts restaurant. She is from Thailand and opened a Thai restaurant called Simply Thai. Apparently it has the best curry in the state. I don't really like curry, so I didn't try it. Ashley had it and said it was great! So we ate there with Grandpa Chidester, and it was great meeting him. So little detail about the trip.... every time we would drive on the freeway I was obsessed with pointing out the Temples. There were like four that I would point out every time! I am being totally serious... everytime I saw a Temple I would just yell, "LOOK TEMPLE!!!!!" It was great!.... On the way to the Thai restaurant, which was in Sandy, I said that we should tour the Temples in the Valley. And we did just that!!! It was so amazing! We went to the Jordan River Temple first, then the Oquirrh Mountain Temple, then the Draper Temple, then the Mount Timpanogos Temple. We were going to go to the Provo Temple but decided that it is prettiest at night, and we saw it a couple times already. So we just admired from a distance! I will tell you what, seeing that many temples in a day was just so breath taking! I love the Temple and they were all so gorgeous. And even though we were just taking pictures of them, there was a Spirit with us that was so wonderful. I loved it! We also got to see some of the Valley while we were looking at the Temples. The mountains are so pretty in Utah! I just love the landscape! It was a fun drive everywhere.

So after we were done with our tour we were just so exhausted that we needed a nap. We probably slept for like three hours! After our beauty rest we got ready to go out for the night! We went to a Non Alcoholic bar in Provo called Spark. It was really fun, and we got to hang out in a cool atmosphere! It was silly but we had fun. After that we went and watched a movie at our friend Blakes apartment and stayed there for a while. Then we went and stayed at Lisa's house and just passed out! We left Sunday morning for home, and made it back in one piece! It was a good trip overall! We had fun considering the circumstances! I would definitely say that after that trip I like Utah a little more! Crazy I know! haha

Pictures to come... as soon as I figure out how to do it! Haha