Suprise Visit

Someone knocked on our front door at about 10:30 PM Thursday night. I opened the door and Bill's sister Miriam is standing there with a friend of hers. They live in Las Vegas, so it was quite the surprise. Turns out Bill's mom decided to make a surprise trip up to Utah for the weekend and brought Miriam and a couple friends with her. So fun!

I don't have class on Fridays, so all Friday afternoon I hung out with them and went shopping. It was awesome. I'm not a huge shopper, but I really had a great time. Suzanne was so sweet to buy me and Bill the pieces of an art project we are going to work on this week. I'll post pictures about that when we're done.

Friday night I had an MPA talent show that I went to and then Bill and I headed up the Aspen Grove Timanogos trail to go camping with some friends up in the snow. For once I had enough clothes and warm enough sleeping arrangements that I actually slept really well camping. That doesn't happen very often, which is a bummer, because I really like camping.

So we headed back down out the canyon in time to meet up with the family again to head up to Salt Lake. We went to the Gateway and did some more shopping. Bill and I picked up the game Blokus. Very fun. You should try it. What is also amazing is eating at Biaggi's for lunch. That place is amazing! I had something that involved sun dried tomato cream sauce, chicken, mushrooms, glazed onions, and pasta. Can I say amazing! I can't wait to eat the leftovers today.

I would post pictures of our camping trip, but the camera is in the car, so that will have to wait for another post. But it has been a great weekend. Homework suffered, but for once, I'm just going to forget about that. :)

Y Mountain in the Snow

I've been wanting to blog for like a week, but haven't had anything to talk about lately. But yesterday we finally got out hiking with some friends and it was tons of fun! We woke up to rain, which is really strange in Utah in February, but looking up at the mountains you could tell it changed to snow at about the level of the Y. We met some friends and started our hike to the top of Y Mountain a little before 9AM. It was an awesome hike! We got to do some snowshoeing in fresh powder, were in the middle of the snowstorm while on the top of the mountain, and came down breaking trail through a pristine snow field. If you've ever been hiking in the winter, it's not usually very fun to break trail, but coming down a mountain in snowshoes and in deep powder, it's like you can run down and never fall. You feel like you're floating and it's amazing. Bill tells me that's how it feels to snowboard in fresh powder. One of these days I'll try it and find out. In the meantime, we had a great time winter hiking. I tried out my new mountaineering boots and they worked surprisingly well. No blisters, just a few rubbed spots on my ankles. That's saying something for such rigid boots.There is a mountain meadow you pass through on the hike where someone had built a snow cave. It was really poorly designed to keep you warm, but tons of fun to take pictures in. This picture is super overexposed, but Bill's pearly whites show through nicely. Hopefully we'll get out a bit more so I'll have things to post about in the next few weeks. Otherwise, it's mostly just school and homework, so not terribly exciting. Good weekend though.