The land of the Prophets

 Tuks and I have been in the land of the free for seven days now. We spent our first night in Inglewood, LA and didn't get shot or mugged.

The rest of the week we spent in Utah with our good friends the Summerill's. My wonderfully talented friend Erin who shoots weddings when she's not too busy taking care of her four kids or going to Harts to refill her Big Chill, has shown us all around the town.

We worked out every morning at the Pleasant grove rec center where Erin teaches Aerobics.  We went to Park city to see the ski fields and strange Moose sculptures,  shopped at the outlets and toured around BYU Provo. We did a live endowment session at the Salt Lake temple and looked at the muesums around temple square. We got special tickets to the Utah Jazz game, that came with a meal before the game, unlimited snacks during and sat only 12 rows back from the court!!



We went to General conference, and later that day met John Bytheway at the Deseret book store who signed my DVD's and books. Last night we watched "Unicorn city" at the $3 movies and did more shopping at Walmart. Can I also mention that I have done a lot of driving here and there is not one scratch on the car nor have we had any near accidents.

In between those things we have filled up on candy, frozen yogurt and Mexican food. Which takes me back  to the Big Chill. People here drink so much soda, and I know because the cup sizes are massive and every time we go to Harts men, women and children are all loading up on their gallon of soda. Like this guy who thought it was amusing that I thought his drinking habits were amusing enough to take a photo:

I have had a few favorite Utah moments, the first was a conversation I overheard at Ross between a mother and daughter.

Girl:  How about these Mom? ( points at a pair of jeggings)
 Mom:  Uh uh.. jeggings are NOT ok

For obvious reasons I had to have a conversation like this while I was here:

Sister: Are you visiting with your family?
Me: Just my husband and some of his family.
Sister:  Oh, how long have you been married?
Me: About two and a half years
Sister: Neat! Well, how many children do you have?
Me: Oh I don't have any yet, I'm only 26!
OK so I purposely did that to get a reaction from her... and she was suckered in and produced just the reaction I was expecting.

Tomorrow we leave Utah, and I am a little sad. Farewell trips to Harts to buy the Big chill, and Walmart to buy all 7 flavors of M&M's. Goodbye late night conversations, midnight corndogs, early morning aerobics, thrift shopping, awkward singing girls in public bathrooms, healthy smoothies made by Mark, embarrassing unintentional insults towards Erin's mum, running into people you haven't seen in years and laughing endlessly at jokes that never get old.

Onto the next chapter of our adventure, here's hoping it's just as fun.