Traveling Chick in Utah

Got to Salt Lake on Thursday night around 10pm. Tony took me to Sonic and then we went to hang at his house for a bit. Friday morning he had to go in to a meeting and so I worked from the laptop for a few hours which was really nice. He came back around 1pm and we got to take off and do some fun things! Like...

Going to this cool Bulward Auction in SLC on Friday and walked around to see everything and what we might like to bid on. The mountain board ended up going for $60 and the ASL rug and picture were gone before we got there but its all good. We bid on a couple things like a knife block and a twin bed air mattress with pump but didnt get them. Frustrating but fun at the same time. At least I didnt have my heart set on anything, right?

Then we went shooting out at a place Tony found and it was perfect. I learned how to load a revolver (so easy) and got to shoot the 9mm (some kick to that!) so we shot about 100 rounds of our ammo we bought from a guy on the KSL website. I got 550 rounds for the .22 for only $20. Pretty sweet deal. Ammo for the 9mm is more expensive.

Getting our game on

So hot outside & I'm so hot with this 9mm. Jk jk

Went to eat at one of our FAVORITE places - TEXAS ROADHOUSE! I had never eaten here until I started dating Tony & we went to one in Fremont, CA. The food here is sooo super good. My mouth waters

Later that evening as we were trying to recover from the delicious food...

HOMEMADE POPCORN! Got so excited to make popcorn and bring it to the drive in on Friday night but we got there to see one movie and it was $14 for the both of us! True, it was cheaper than a normal movie but honestly! We ended up going back to Tony's and watching a movie and eating the popcorn. Not as much fun as a drive-in but it worked :)

Driving to Provo Saturday afternoon ...Pandy came along for the ride & Tony got us Icee's at the gas station because it was a very hot day

A short time later Tony's car overheated and smoke was pouring out from under his hood so we quickly pulled over and we found ourselves near an exit sign to Lindon. After spending what felt like forever! in the 100* heat while Tony was on the phone trying to get a tow truck, a highway patrol officer showed up and told us he'd push our car off the freeway to the exit and to a gas station. So so nice of him!

Waited for awhile for the car to cool down and checked out a nearby car lot at new and used cars but didnt find too much. Tried to get a ride to the train or back to SLC but that wasnt working out so finally I just said , "Lets try starting your car and see how far we get" so we did and it made it to an Auto Zone. Perfect! Tony bought a bunch of fluid for the car and we walked to Wendy's to get some food and then my friend Nicole got off work and picked me up and Tony followed us in his car.


(pretty sunset on Saturday night)

We visited with Nicole & her husband Ben and then we went to Sub Zero ice cream (one of my favorite places in Provo!) and met up with my good friend Melissa who is going to the Paul Mitchell school there. She is from Arizona and I havent seen her for a few months since she left so it was SUCH a good time to see her! I was still majorly bummed that none of our other Provo plans happened but there is next time, right?

Sunday was no church because it was the Oquirrh Mountain temple dedication so we went to visit one of my friends who had a baby in June (pics coming soon) and did other things to fill up the day before my flight left.



Visited my friend Erin & her husband and baby Faith for the first time since she had been born.



We were going to ride Tony's Honda Rebel "StayC" but he couldnt find the key. I was pretty bummed because I wanted to try out the new helmet my friend Jeremy from Oregon airbrushed for me for my birthday! Better luck when I come back in October...

Dinner on Sunday night -we made stir-fry... one of my favorites and Tony is good at making it (even though I did help)..its not hard...but it always tastes better when he cooks!

Here are a couple more shooting pix:

Went out shooting one more time before I left & shot about 100 rounds again. Was able to get the guns to Arizona with me! Southwest was really nice about it all. So I am excited to go shooting with friends & family here in Arizona and become better with my aim and learning about guns in general. Woohoo , watch out Arizona!

Country Concert @ Cricket Pavilion

Met up with Paul, Rene & Joey after I got off work last Friday and we headed first to eat at Jason's Deli. Free ice cream with our food, cant beat that!

Got to the Cricket Pavilion in Phoenix around 7:30 and the first main act was Trace Adkins

I knew some of his songs so that was pretty to get to see him because I never have before.



Then after a long intermission and people chanting "Toby Keith Toby Keith" the main man finally came out!



TOBY KEITH



We had lawn seat tickets (cheaper) and sat in the family section so that was pretty much away from all the smoking and drinking going on around us which was very nice.

The finale was one of my favorite parts (no not bc it meant the concert was over) but they did a salute to all the soldiers and tons of confetti came down and so many red white and blue lights and Trace & Toby came out and sang together for the encore. It was pretty amazing.

It would have been amazing to see some college hunks hauling junk on our way out but much to my dismay, there were none to be seen. Better luck next time!

Comic-Con & the Beach!

(Convention center in San Diego)

I needed to get to the beach. Didn't get to go when I was in Woodland. So strange how I think 2 hrs is too long to get to the beach when I am there, yet I don't bat an eye to drive 5 hours to the beaches in San Diego. I went the same weekend as last year so I figured the weather would be great. It was...but on Saturday it was very muggy and gross. Luckily that day I got to be inside the convention center in downtown San Diego - at ComicCon!! It was quite the experience as last year was my first time ever hearing about it. Here are some pictures from the few hours I got to spend there:

My favorite picture of the pretty much only famous person easily recognizable that I saw that weekend. The screenwriter from Ironman. I loved the display that was set up for this!

Original from Batman movie



Left picture shows a bunch of people dressed up as their favorite super hero or comic book character. On the right, my friend David, yikes! the joker from the movie The Dark Knight found him and posed for this cool pic



So scary!



I get their emails and always always wanted to try some of their frozen yogurt and finally ! Walking millions of blocks back to Chris' car, it was so so hot and I saw Pinkberry and insisted we had to stop. I tried the coconut flavor and it was very very good!



This hotel is in a lot of famous movies

After getting some food at Subway we went to Sunset Cliffs beach. It was really pretty! One side of the pier had rocks and no sand, the other side of the pier had nice sand and lots of people!





Stayed with my friend Adam and a few of his friends at a family's house that I actually stayed at last year. They are LDS and really nice, especially to let so many people come crash in their living room! Saturday evening Chris & I hung out in Old Town San Diego for a bit and ate at a pretty good mexican restaurant.

Went to the Santee 4th Branch (YSA) on Sunday morning and then headed to Oceanside for a little more beach time before heading back to Mesa.



This is one of my favorite beaches!



A nice group of friends offered to take our picture together. LOL



Cool car cruising below us and stopping for pictures



So weird that suddenly a ton of people showed up. We figured out it was a church group and they were doing baptisms in the ocean! Interesting. I've never seen such a thing.



I love love love the beach. Feeling the ocean waves and the sand and the smells




One of my favorite favorite pictures from the trip that I took



Couldn't resist taking a pic....



this car was so funny in front of us and kept us entertained while we were stuck in stupid stupid traffic heading back to AZ.
It said : manual locks, radio, loose change under seats, floor mats...lol! all for $17,800



My cell phone got so weird and went from AT&T to TelCell (Mexico) and to T-Mobile back to AT&T! LOL



Because we got stuck in silly traffic for no reason (not even an accident!) instead of getting back to Mesa around 11:30 we got home around 1am. O well. The trip was still WELL worth it! Thanks to my friend Chris for letting us take his car and do all the driving