I went to Idaho this weekend to visit my BFF Kristy! Kristy and I have been friends for 21 years now! My sister came up with me and we jammed out to country music the whole way up! Some of the highlights from the trip:
DISCOUNT MOVIES! Everybody loves a good deal right? Right☺! We went and saw Enchanted. I had never seen the previews…I had heard from a girl in my singles ward that it was a good movie. So the movie begins and I quickly realize that it’s an animated movie…I began to worry…nothing against animated movies, I actually like a lot of animated movies, I just usually wait ‘til they come out on DVD, unless they’re a "must see." This movie seemed a bit too kiddy friendly and a little over the top especially the theme song entitled “A True Loves Kiss” ☺. But then animated characters turned into humans, it was still a bit corny, but I do fall for romance in any form, ha-ha. (I’m a hopeless romantic, what can I say☺)
OLIVE GARDEN! Kristy’s husband Mike is a manager at Olive Garden. I ordered “The Tour of Italy.” It was so expensive! I felt slightly guilty…we even ordered an appetizer! And sadly, NO DESSERT! This whole no sweets for 6 months is hard! I have to keep reminding myself that dessert will never desert me…I just can’t have it right now☺.
GAMES! We played a lot of games this weekend! We played, Egyptian Rat Screw (I’m horrible at this game!), Nibs, Dominos, Apples to Apples, and Imaginiff. I found out that I’m horrible at card games! At one point in our game playing my sister said to me “If I had your brain, I would be so frustrated!” I tend to over-think and overanalyze, I try to use the best strategies☺.POT ROAST! We made a pot roast in the crock pot! Mom you would be so proud of me! I can now cook in a Dutch Oven and in a Crock Pot! Here are some pics of the process….(you must always brown the roast first, daddy taught me well! Oh, and always use the drippings from the raost in your gravy, yum, yum!)
Left: Sautéing the Onions---------- Right: Browning the Roast
Left: "Just Add Water!" ----------Right: " Ta-Da! Dinner for 4!"
GRADING! Leslee and Kristy helped me grade papers! Kristy had a riot! She kept saying, I could be a teacher, this is fun! She would criticize handwriting and complement their little doodle drawings on the back of their papers. I wish I had grading helpers all the time! Thanks Les and Kristy Sue!
REAL MOVIES! We went and saw Mad Money right before we left for our journey home. It was funny movie. Just them talking about beginning tight with money made my skin crawl!
DRIVE HOME! Our drive home was perfect, the weather was great! And of course there was my little bathroom adventure upon arriving home☺. I kept thinking "mom are we there yet? Mom, how many more miles? Mom, I can't wait any longer!" (My sister says that she feels sorry for the man I marry, she said that if I have a weak blatter now, who knows what I'll be like when I'm pregnant!) Well I hope that everyone else had a fun Martin Luther King Day weekend! Yay for 3 day weekends! Cheerio!
On the left: Les & Me -----------On the right: Kristy & Me
Left: The "falls" of Idaho Falls----------- Right: Idaho Falls Temple
Left: Leslee---------- Right: Kristy
Left: Mike, Kristy, Leslee, Me ----------Right: Kristy & Mike
5 comments:
Cute Story! You could have left the goofy picture of me with the dominos coming out my ears off of it though! That is a bad picture! Well at least it shows my goofy side! I had a blast I hope we can do it again.
Oh, looks like you had a blast! They only thing I would contest is the country music... yuck! haha :) Wanna come make me a roast some day? That looks yummy! :)
I would love to make roast for you! You provide the roast & veggies and I'll provide the spices and the dutch oven:)! Seriously, that would be a lot of fun. I need to practice cooking but I hate cooking for one:).
It Hurts to lauph! You are soooo cute I love reading your blog! Looks like you had a lot of fun! when is your next trip and where are you going?
You just never know when my next trip is...I'm pretty spontanious:). I'm planning a trip with some friends to New York City in May! Yeah for MAY! I've only been to the NYC airport and I was snowed in there...I'm hoping that this experience is a little different:). Actually I kind of liked being snowed in. I like adventures. I think I have a couple days off for spring break in March so I might try to find somewhere to go for a weekend get-a-way! I really want to go out of the country...but that cost $$$$ and I don't have a lot of that:).
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