The Utah trip!!

Finally I get a moment to jot a few things down. (and yes, sorry folks, this may turn into another extremely long post... sigh.. ) When last we saw our heroine, she was buried in orders and stressed out about having to go on this short jaunt to Utah..... fast forward 2 weeks, give or take a few days, and we find our heroine still buried in orders but with tales to tell....

So, we managed to get the orders out that we needed in order for me to be able to go on my trip without being smothered in guilt. It was however madness and chaos trying to get everything done, I was packing my suitcase and packaging houses until the time we had to leave to go to the airport, whew, that was close!  One long but uneventful airplane trip later and I am in Utah, at Migeys house, cunsuming a large helping of delicious homemade beef pot pie, yum!!  We had a nice visit and then technology took over, amid Ipads, laptops and PCs it was a geeks paradise!!  What followed was a binge of fun, relaxation, large amounts of spectacular food and general sillyness (how do you spell this word?!??!) .... (oh wait, that's what spell check is for!! :) )  There were several shopping trips, one of which netted us a ridicuolous amount of sweets:

• Chocolate covered pretzels
• Yogurt covered pretzels
• Chocolate covered almonds
• gummy bears
• chocolate covered something, can't quite remember what....
• some other gummylike substance

All this to equal way too much junk food, but oh so tasty! We watched several movies, including "The Sorceror's Apprentice" and "Unstoppable" both of which were pretty enjoyable, I mean who doesn't like Nicholas Cage and Denzel Washington I ask you?!? On to the list of delicious foods that were comsumed in a relatively short amount of time:

• Awesome sausage and eggs
• Delicious Beef Pot Pie
• Scrumptuous Rhubarb Pie
• Icecream!!  need I say more?!?!?
• Suppli
• Sweet potato fries and cheese sticks
• Tiramisu!! yum!!
• Delightfully savory Texas Roadhouse outing, steak and potatoes FTW!!
• Delicately fried fish
• Chili dogs!!
• Pan Di Stelle - oh how I miss my italian cookies!!
• and other foods, can't think about food anymore I am already hungry!!

You may wonder if we had time to do anything else besides eating with this impressive list of offerings, but indeed yes, we actually did other stuff, true we kind of had to roll from one place to another but we still made it! There was one epic night filled with the sounds of Rock Band, kudos to Migey and his amazing Rock Band skills, also a kudos to Ben for conquering the dreaded and awfully hard to play drums ( I tried it once... on easy..... got a 65%, bah!) To my comrad in Bass playing, we did the best we could, I salute you and bid you success in your next endeavors. Even though, and this is for you Rock Band makers, why dont' you have any Celine Dion or Whitney Houston songs available?!?!?? or even Faith Hill?!?!? and what is with your pitiful Country songs selection?!?!?!?  what? you mean country songs aren't rocking enough for you?!?!?!?  sigh.... oh well

Then there was the unforgettable afternoon spent in the magical world of Quelf, where things like taping a piece of paper to ones head, asking permission to speak from your foot and paper airplane races are only a few of the hilarious things that happen whilst visiting there. A word to the wise, if I may, do not drink at the table whilst playing Quelf!  There were battles of Smash Brothers Brawl, cuddles with the adorable Bella, computer gaming (really?!?! I would have never thought!! =P ) A rush against time to make 48mini cranberry bread-muffins... barely managed to get that done in time and what is it with stores not carrying cellophane loot bags?!?!?!?

A huge shout out to Mindee for putting up with me all that time. It was an amazing trip and lots of fun!!You guys are amazing and certainly made me feel important and well cared for!! I would rate your facility as 5 stars!!

I am sure I am missing something amazing that we did... I'll have to post it later as it comes to me.. It was great to have been able to go, big kiss and hug to my wonderful husband who helped me make it happen and who stayed behind holding down the home front.  It was great to be able to spend time with Migey, Mindee, Ben, Bella and Mom. I love you guys, hugs and kisses!!!

Only thing, I wish I would have had more time to visit the other side of the family while I was there, Michelle, Tyler and kids, sorry I didn't make it out to see you, but I will see you soon for the McDonald's Christmas Extravaganza hosted by your amazing parents in Missouri!! Are you all ready for this??!?!? Can't hardly wait!!

Until next time.........
Corinne