Weekend in Utah, Part 2

Saturday morning we got up bright and early, checked out of our hotel and made our way up to Salt Lake to be in the Conference Center for the morning session of General Conference. We were running a little late since we had to park a bit further than expected, but we made it inside with a few minutes to spare. We were pleasantly surprised to see that our seats were so close! (Thanks Dianna for the hook-up!)

Our walk back to the car was a little slower, and thank goodness since my feet were killing me! We didn't pack for warm weather, which we got on Saturday, so I was wearing my 3 inch heeled boots which killed my feet on our power walk earlier that morning. I was very grateful to get back in the car and change my shoes.

After conference we headed down to Provo to meet up with Trish and Charles for lunch. It was so good! We ate at this pizza place down in the Riverwoods:

They had such a variety of pizzas, salads, pastas and even dessert pizzas! It was nice to sit and chat with the Bogus-Rackhams (haha!) and have some delish pizza in the process. We stayed for proabaly a good hour and a half, and then we went our separate ways. We were able to find a Borders store in the same shopping center and FINALLY got to use our gift cards from Christmas. Darren and I both found great books that we are flying through.

Since we were down in Provo we headed over to the BYU Bookstore to see if we could find anything that would help us be more a part of "Jimmermania". Unfortunately nothing had his name attached to it, so we just browsed and then left. We took a little drive around campus and ended up at what used to be Deseret Towers. A few years ago they tore them all down, which was a sad day. Coincidentally my dad and I both lived on the same floor of the same building. We both had great times in DT. What I was surprised to see though, was that there are new buildings going up in their place:

This building stands where V Hall (where I lived) used to be. I looked them up and they will look like this when they are finished: 

A vast improvement I would say! Too bad these weren't there 10 years ago...

Moving on...after my trip down memory lane we headed out to Cedar Hills to meet up with the Walkers so Darren could head out to Priesthood session with Uncle Andy and Johnny. I didn't really know what to do with myself, so I hung around and ended up tagging along with Aunt DeAnn, Brittany, Dianna and Carolyn for dinner. It was so much fun! We went to Zupas and then headed over to Carolyn's to watch Tangled. It was SUCH a cute movie and I'm going to make Darren watch it one of these days. Muah ha ha.

It was quite the busy day, but we made up for it on Sunday by relaxing and eating way too much. We had originally planned on leaving on Sunday evening, but an job opportunity opened up at a high school close by so we stayed one more night so Darren could stop by the next day and drop off his resume. An added bonus is that we didn't have to drive in the snow that just kept coming down all day.

We had a great time with the Walkers, and enjoyed the easy drive back to Idaho Falls on Monday. We only wish we had more time to take little trips like this.