Conference Weekend - Ladies Night Out

I heart being in Salt Lake City for General Conference weekend (#ldsconf) which happens the first weekend in April and October - every 6 months. During Saturday night is the priesthood session for all the men to attend and it's my favorite time to hang out with my sister and other friends. We only have 2 hours and it's hard to fit in all the places I like to go! 

Here are my top favorite spots to spend girls night during the LDS General Conference Priesthood session.

Girls Night Out , Erins Night Out

I found a contest on a blog to enter to win tickets for Erin's Night Out, hosted by 100.7 FM which is a radio station I sometimes listen to. I thought I would enter to win and actually ended up getting an email saying that I had won 4 tickets! It turned out that we were supposed to be going to Albuquerque for the balloon fiesta but that got canceled pretty much last minutes - the day we were supposed to go - because of stormy weather. We ended up staying in SLC and I was able to go to this after all! My sister Laura and I went but we were not able to find anyone to use the other 2 tickets. 

I had to get 4 new tires on my car (a story for another day) and when I got done, I picked up Laura and we headed to the event. It was in a hotel and not in downtown SLC like I had thought. I had not looked at the details of the event too closely because I didnt think I would be able to go.

Girls Night Out @ Thanksgiving Point

I promoted an event by the Utah Kids Club on my blog and gave away 2 pairs of tickets as well. In exchange for promoting the event I got a ticket to attend as well so that was very cool! I heard this was the second year this event has happened.  I headed over right when I got off work and met up with my friend Aimee who was already there and then Laura met up with us later. I wish more of my friends had been interested in going. Despite the wind, wait times to do things and the fact I had to leave early, it was really fun. There were many booths set up with vendors selling items geared towards women, free massages, free glitter toes, pedicures and more. It was crazy! It went from 5-10pm and I could have stayed busy the whole time.

I did not take many pictures at all because I was so busy but I did snap a few!

Girls Night Out with University of Utah Health Care Center

On Thursday night out at the University of Utah Health Care Center in Daybreak, they had a Girls Night out so I invited a few friends to go and we had a blast! Honestly it turned out to be way more fun than I thought it would be but I didnt really know what to expect. It was from 630 to 830 and we got there right about 630. There were already so many people there!

Started out with some sparkling cider & sprite

So much delicious food - wow!

My sister Laura & I

I love eating food on a stick. This was cheese, a tomato and some chicken

How fancy is this?! Wow

After we walked around a bit and ate some food, we got to hear the keynote speaker, Mary Nickles speak about her journey with breast cancer. 

There were a lot of raffles to enter, professionals to talk to, free massages, free cooking demonstration, free eye exam, women's self defense class...so many things! 

Lindsay & Laura waiting for the self defense class to start

The view from above down to where the keynote speaker had presented. Such a pretty set-up!

Learned a lot from the owner of OPSGear in North Salt Lake, David, on some simple self-defense techniques. It was very interesting and he even will come teach groups of scouts, Relief Society , Young Women, etc. Having an attendance of at least 30+ is preferable  I thought that was really cool and think it would be awesome to have him come on a Tuesday night for mutual with the youth.

The night was over all too fast. Great event & I'm so glad my friends and I could go!