Two Weekends Ago...

Once upon a time, David and I made an escape. Tired of the doldrums that Logan has provided us with for so long, we burst out of the work and school chains and drove like mad to the far away land of... Salt Lake City. (What can I say, gas prices dictate a lot sometimes)

Itching to try something new and amazing we decided to satisfy our long-standing curiosity and try The Training Table for dinner. You will be happy to know that our curiosity was satisfied... but our desire for a quality dining experience was not. Therefore that will be the last time we go to the training table unless a gun is held to our head. Yes, we do feel very strongly about it...

Fortunately, the whole weekend did not match the tone of the first night. As a whole we were rather pathetic that first night. We checked into a hotel and laid on the bed and watched TV. Part of me felt like we should possibly be ashamed of ourselves for doing something in Salt Lake that we could have easily done at home, but the other part of me enjoyed it thoroughly.

The next day we met up with Sophie and Andrew, Cecil, and David's parents. We went to Gardner's Village where David and I found the table of my dreams. (You have to understand that our current dining set consists of a hand-me-down table and 5 blue folding chairs. Therefore I drool over dining sets with real chairs that match!) If I had been thinking I would have taken a picture of it. As it is it will have to live on in my imagination until such time as we have enough money to buy said table and chairs. My favorite feature was the little drawers on two sides of the table for storing such things as napkins, silverware... or when we have children, broken crayons and other such treasures. Someday...

On Sunday we got church times crossed and ended up not attending... I know, we're rebels. However, we did take the opportunity to spend some time at Temple Square. We took a tour of the conference center, which was amazing, and then spent the rest of the time walking around Temple Square looking for photo opportunities. My favorite was the Reflection pool.

Afterwards, Sophie and Andrew were kind enough to put up with us for another day and we ate dinner with them and played Dominoes. All in all it was a good weekend and a much needed break.