Trip to Utah

For spring break and for work, Chad and I went to Utah for a week. It was awesome! When we landed on Monday afternoon, we were greeted with snow! :) Talk about a wonderful sight since we wanted to have good snow for when we went snowboarding. A few things happened once we landed in Utah. First the bad news: our new suitcase was ripped!! And Chad lost his knife which was a Christmas gift from his parents (and his only knife since he lost all the others in attics and walls at customers' homes). Yeah, we were not really happy about that but oh well. Some good things happened to, the guy at the car rental place was really nice! He put me on as an extra driver for free and then we got upgraded to a jeep from a car because why...because our snowboard bag didn't fit in the car! Awesome! That night was fun, we got to hang out with the Nickel family, they are wonderful people! Tuesday Chad had to do a lot of driving for one, poor guy. He drove me to Provo to visit my best friend Rachael. While I was hanging out with her, he went to lunch and dinner with two guys for recuriting. Then we caught up later that night after dinner time and went to a bookstore. We walked out with SO many books! And I only chose two which is great for me cause I'm normally the bookworm. :) Wednesday was great! Snow snow snow snow! We went snowboarding at Brighton with Jaclyn and Andy! Yay! Brighton had like twenty inches or more of snow! My first taste of powder: now I can understand why Chad wants to be in the mountains so bad and why Andy moved to Utah. :) Jaclyn and I rode together while Chad and Andy went off to ride together. I am so much more comfortable on a snowboard and am really looking forward to next season! Crazy, I know. Afterwards, we picked up dinner and went to Jaclyn's apartment to meet her boyfriend and have dinner together. Then Chad took me over to one of his mission president's home. They were amazing, I can't even describe how wonderful they were! They were so sweet and it was great to meet them, even if I just came from snowboarding with a wind burned face. Beautiful! Thursday was all about traveling down to Zions Park since thats where we were going to stay for work. It was a great weekend, even if it was really cold. All the Platinum guys played baseball in the cold! Even Chad played, and I have pictures as proof! :) Friday, while the guys were in their meetings, the wives went shopping! It was long and frustrating at times...but it was great to be with Ariel and her kids! I miss them so much. Saturday, I went on a two hour trail ride with Ariel at the place we were staying. It has been so long since I've been on a horse! Needless to say, the next day and so, I was sore! But it was wonderful too. After Chad played a two hour paintball game with some guys from work, we headed back towards Salt Lake. We drove passed Manti temple, which was beautiful and a nice scenic drive. :) We then pulled up to the hotel we stayed in last year, which was so nice to actually sleep in a real bed. We were sleeping on airmattresses for the whole week, which wasn't bad either, but there is a difference between a real bed and airmatteress. When we left on Sunday, our flight was delayed which we almost, and I mean almost, missed our connecting flight in Chicago. Ah! Chad and I had to run all across that airport and made it just in time. With that, our bags couldn't get transferred in time, frustrating! we got our bags at like 4 am. Fun! But at least nothing was lost that time. The ferrets were so big when we got home and they changed! Lago has red in her color now instead of a chocolate color. Burton has just gotten bigger and then has a champange (spelling?) color a little more than just white. Wow.. that was a lot. :) Oh well, it was a great trip! I miss Utah! But I am glad to be back home in Ohio...