I headed up to Joslin's house for the closing ceremonies of the Olympics. We had Olympics barbecue, Olympics guac, and Olympics juice. All of which were delicious. I enjoyed the closing ceremonies (though not as much as the openings). When the 6 Chinese pop stars were singing Joslin said, "I'm glad the next Olympics will be in London so we can understand what they're saying." I agreed.
I woke up early the next morning and headed up to Las Vegas to see the Youngs. But on the long drive I encountered this:
I decided on the long drive to Vegas that I would try to eat the foods that I've been missing. So far, SOOOOO good! I was planning on stopping in St George to have a meal at Cafe Rio...
(Side bar. When Marina (my now sis-in-law) and I were in college, we noticed that whenever someone else would mention Cafe Rio, another person would say, "I LOOOOVE Cafe Rio," complete with eyes rolling to the back of their head. So after this discovery, whenever either of us heard the name Cafe Rio, one of us would dramatically proclaim our love for the brightly colored burrito shop with an extremely long wait. Okay, back to the travelogue).
I mentioned Cafe Rio (try to say it and do the eye roll. It will make my blog more fun) and Suz informed me that they were in vegas. Done and done.
I spent the afternoon with Suzanne, picked up the kids at school, went swimming in their pool, went to get some Thai food once Danny got home, went to target and it was off to bed. Whew. I miss them a ton.
The next morning I was off to see my great friend, Yiviani Arb. We used to dance together on the ballroom dance company at SUU. She has a cute boy, Benjamin and a girl on the way, due in December. I played with Ben and chatted with Yivi and that boy tired me out. I tried to take a picture but he seemed to prefer to be on the other side of the camera:
After only a couple hours there, I went off to Washington (St. George-ish), UT to hang with my fantastic high school friend, Kim Brown and her kids. We just chatted and laughed and caught up while the kids were playing. I even got a Pokemon sticker out of it. It's pretty awesome. Thanks buddy!

