Vacation until you drop!

So, in the beginning of June, Daniel and I went to Utah for a wedding. We took two weeks off and went to all our old haunts in Salt Lake. We left our cat and plants in good hands while we partied.

We went to spend the night in Downtown and go to Ginza for sushi. We went there for our first date. It was a lot of fun, but after all of the sushi places we have been to, Ginza wasn't that great anymore.

We went to St. George on the weekend to visit my grandmother and I got to show Daniel Dixie, where I went to junior college.
In order to be a true Dixie Rebel you have to kiss, at night, at the fountain on the main square. All of the cops parade around the night that the whole school comes to become a true rebel and try and stop all of the kids from playing and making out in the water. Well, we didn't get spotted and it wasn't night, but that was the closest we could get to make Daniel a "true rebel." We spent a day with one of my college mates, she was dating a guy from LaVerkin. She said she saw this sign that LaVerkin had voted itself out of the UN and the US. I love Southern Utah because it is full of crazies, and Daniel just couldn't understand how a city could do that when States don't even have the power to leave the union. Well, we asked the kid who lived there and his response was that he was still in high school and didn't care. Daniel didn't really appreciate this attitude because he really wanted to know. I guess it is a touchy subject for those people in LaVerkin who are normal and have nothing to do with voting themselves out of their own country. We then went to Zions National park and drove around. Daniel thought it was cool except that he had to spend most of the day in Springdale which he was thoroughly sick of because it seemed like he could never get out of it. We did have an interesting drive through Colorado City which seemed to please Daniel because he couldn't fathom how the polygamist could live and was glad to see their unfinished, half boarded up, city. I thought it was a little spooky since half of the town is laying low or off to other enclaves.

And finally the reason we went to Utah was for our friends' wedding. We met through these friends, Billy and Melissa, and they met through us. Through a very long story, I knew Billy from high school and Daniel knew him from his mission. During college, I met Melissa at a church sorority and she was the only girl there who would laugh with me every time they said "the sisterhood." It got to the point where we would go to the sorority hook up, ditch it, and do what ever we wanted after. We fell out of contact for different reasons (mostly boys). It seemed very strange that we should happen to go to the same singles ward in Salt Lake. I went there and found Billy, Daniel went there because of Billy, and Melissa went there because it was her new ward and I found her too. I started the "family" pew and insisted that Billy, Daniel, and eventually Melissa should all sit together every Sunday. I hate to sit by myself in church; I'm so use to sitting with my family that I found that one of the hardest things for me in the singles ward. Anyway they came to our wedding, so we went to their wedding.

I have to brag for a minute because we got to see our nephew and I am a proud aunt because he is so cute that he makes me look cute. He is the only Gedge to have brown eyes and I'm glad because I know, with my luck, my kid is going to have brown eyes and now I know how cute it is going to be! He and his sister are so cute together that I get excited to visit and play with them.
This was the best vacation because we got to spend time with our friends and family and it wasn't a quick "how do you do" and then have to leave.