Be Prepared for the Chance of a Lifetime

On september 18, me, Jena, and my mom met in salt lake for a girls weekend, and it was epic! We first went shopping which was highly unproductive and disappointing. Then I attempted to drive down town only to find out that it was the 'Dew Tour' in the Energy Solutions Arena. It literally took me 5 minutes to realize that was a bad idea and 40 minutes to get out of there! Once I made it to the hotel we got all dolled up for dinner. We walked to a nearby Italian restaurant. Once we entered we quickly felt out of place. This place was fancy. The average meal was $25-30 (which was way over the budget). The waiter dished up our sizzling meal right in front of us and there was one guy dedicated to keeping our water glasses full. Luckily, the menu offered half portions, so that's what we ordered. We all laughed when we got the bill and it was $38 for all of us. Hahaha. However, the best part was when the water boy came to the table and cleaned off all the crumbs in front of me! So embarrassing.

Once dinner was over we walked to the Capital Theater to see "The Lion King"! it was spectacular! Only thing that would have made it better is JTT himself!


Jacob believes that the people chanting during Circle of Life are saying "hemoglobin aphen hemoglobin" so that was running through my head the whole first scene. I tried to explain to him what hemoglobin is, but he doesn't believe me. He swears it's of African origin.

Walking home at 11 o'clock was a little scary. Jena acted tough, but I was openly nervous. We passed several pubs, one with a mostly naked guy dancing on the balcony. Mom opted to walk down the other street. The only time I really felt safe was in front of the liquor store and that's just because there were 4 policemen outside! We tried to go to McDonalds, but the lobby was closed, so we drove from our neighboring hotel to the drive through. It was entertaining teaching mom how to go through a double lane drive through. She didn't catch on very quickly! Ha ha ha.

Sunday we went to temple square to watch music and the spoken word. I heart the Mormon tabernacle choir. And the orchestra was there which made it that much better. My favorite song was "Over the Rainbow" from wizard of oz. It blew Katherine McPhee's version out of the water! Amazing. At the end Lloyd announced that President Monson had been there for the taping. So cool.

Jena was too cool for pictures, so she was the photographer!


Overall, I had a great time and LOVED the production of Lion King. It was also great to spend time with my mom and sister. Love them.