Salt Lake City

Last weekend, Chris and I drove down to Salt Lake for his cousin Bruce's wedding. We left Friday morning at about 9am. We got into Salt Lake a little after noon, and checked into our hotel at The Crystal Inn.

We changed, into our Sunday clothes, and then went to Cafe Rio for lunch! :) After that we headed over to Temple Square to attend the sealing! It was both of our first time inside the Salt Lake temple and it was BEAUTIFUL! The ceremony was great and the bride and groom looked so happy. We then went outside for pictures and I got to meet more of his family that I hadn't met yet. They were lots of fun!

By then it was almost 4pm and the reception was starting at 6pm. We wanted to drive down to Orem to my dad's grave site since Chris hadn't been there before so we headed off! What normally takes 40 minutes, took over an hour. Lots of traffic, construction, and accidents. Ugh, not a very fun drive, but we finally got there! The cemetery was beautiful with lots of flowers and people visiting. Driving through Orem brought back a lot of memories for me.....Family dinners at Aunt Millie and Maizies, kickboxing classes with Beth at Gold's Gym, my job at Provo Canyon School, and the day Ryder was born. It was nice to reminisce and share these things with Chris. We literally had 5 minutes to plant the flowers we took and enjoy the moment for a second before we had to get back on the road to get to the reception.

Thankfully the drive was smooth and quick! We arrived right as dinner was being served. It was held in the Joseph Smith Building. The dinner was delicious and the room was decorated so nice. We ate a nice dinner, had a few toasts from family members, watched a slide show of the couple, and then we started dancing!

It was lots of fun, but I couldn't dance very much cause I was still trying to get over a cold and it hurt my chest. But it was still awesome. We had the last dance and then the couple was gonna leave for their honeymoon, so we all went outside with sparklers and made a little tunnel for them to pass through, and waved goodbye! It was a wonderful wedding and so glad I got to go. All the cousins was going to come to our hotel to play in the pool, but I wasn't feeling well so I just went to bed while Chris went and swam.
Saturday we were going to go to Lagoon, but when we woke up it was POURING! So we decided to stop by the new City Creek mall to check it out. It was really nice! Lots of fancy stores that we can't afford, but it was fun to window shop! :)

Then we got on the road and headed back to Idaho Falls. It was a short trip but very fun! It's always nice to get away for a couple days. But now we decided to not take anymore trips till our Anniversary in September where we will go on a cruise! :)