It's been an eventful weekend. On Friday night Saige, Paige, and Liz came over to carve pumpkins. We put the pictures on Facebook and had people vote for their favorite. Coming in first was the cat pumpkin (pictured below) carved by our very own Liz. And coming in dead last was the chaige pumpkin (not pictured) carved by yours truly. Carving pumpkins is not my forte. After a visit from Daley and Taylor, Liz, Paige, and I went to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. This is always an interesting event to attend. For those who don't know the Rocky Horror Picture Show is a movie made in the 1970's played every year around Halloween only to draw crowds, young and old, to come watch gyrating aliens and transvestites from Transylvania. The fun part about this experience is it is an interactive movie so at the beginning you get a goody bag and at certain points in the movie you use the contents in the bag to support what is going on in the movie. My favorite is when they are unwrapping a mummy on screen everyone throws rolls of toilet paper around the theatre and it becomes a giant war of TP.
This year instead of staying in Utah for Halloween, Conor, Morgan, and I decided to go to Colorado instead to visit our friend Nicholas and to attend the Utah vs. Air Force football game. To get to Colorado by 3:00 we had to leave Utah at 4:30 in the morning, or so we thought. Here is what happened over those two days:
Saturday
4:27 AM-- Depart from Ogden on our 9 hour drive while listening to "Send Me On My Way."
5:28 AM-- We arrive in Wyoming and for 45 minutes talked about "Survivor."
6:53 AM-- Eat at McDonalds and encounter other die hard Utes fans heading to the game.
7:40 AM-- We look over to see one sheep standing on the road with no other sheep in sight. Conor starts singing that black sheep song.
11:07 AM-- We finally arrive in Colorado.
11:14 AM-- We do a "Friends Cheer" because we are two hours ahead of schedule! Sorta.
12:34 PM-- Sudden realization that leaving at 4:30 in the morning was all for none because 4:30-3:00 is ten and a half hours, not nine hours needed to reach Colorado Springs.
12:34-Rest of the trip PM-- In disbelief that we miscalculated the trip time by that much.
1:34 PM-- Arrived at destination of Colorado Springs. And spent about 15 minutes trying to find our damn hotel.
3:09 PM-- "That's a giant Dicks.... Sporting Goods." Oh Morgan.
3:47 PM-- Eating lunch in Colorado Springs surrounded by Air Force fans and if that weren't bad enough I broke my tostada.
4:31 PM-- Arrived at the football game.
5:22 PM-- The National Anthem was played with all the Air Force Cadets on the field. There were parachuters before and a flyover by F-22's (I think) basically the Air Force knows how to host a football game.
5:32 PM-- Saw Nicholas for the first time in 5 months.
9:47 PM-- Broke the rules to get Nicholas on the base.
10:53 PM-- Went bowling and for once in my life I was actually playing decent.
Sunday
12:24 AM-- Attempted to catch a bunny.
12:48 AM-- Snuck into hotel pool and broke my toe while climbing the fence. It hurts like hell and probably wasn't worth it.8:30 AM-- Wake up to Conor's alarm.8:30 AM-- Woke up to Conor's alarm.
9:29 AM-- Eating at Village Inn with our Sicilian waiter from "Sicilia" right Nick?
10:34 AM-- Mini golf at the greatest mini golf course of all time.
12:13 PM-- Played 36 holes. Nicholas won, I came in second, Conor in third, and Morgan was honorable mention.
12:40 PM-- Dropped off Nick at the Air Force Academy.
1:10 PM-- On the road to home again.
3:14 PM-- Amateur storm chasers heading into the eye of the storm.
5:10 PM-- "I went camping and I brought with me a... Piece of fish." Conor lost this game.
7:09 PM-- My turn for driving the car was over.
9:31 PM-- Home at last and we actually did make pretty good time.
This weekend was definitely one for the books. Sleep deprivation, broken bones, and 18 hours of driving in two days all to see Nicholas and I have to say it was all worth it.
This is Liz's winning pumpkin.
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