Provo Visit

We finally made it back up to Provo to visit friends and family. Two of my sisters and their husbands, my brother and many of our college and mission friends live in the area. The last time we were there was in February, so this was a long awaited visit for sure. Travis had his first Jewish Holiday break at school so we decided to head up to Provo (Touro is a private Jewish Medical School so he gets Jewish Holidays as well as the regular holidays off).

We got in Friday night just in time to pick up Sarah and run up to Cabelas for 45 minutes of shopping before the store closed. Then since we were up there, we called Travis's friend Wyatt and his wife Mindy came and met up with us at Chipotle, the dinner of choice by my pregnant sister Sarah. :) Then we headed back to Provo, said hi to the fam over at Jess's and then headed over to Sarah and David's to get settled in for the night. They live in a cute 2 bedroom house. It must be so nice having a yard and a place to park!

Anyways, Saturday morning Travis got up super early to meet up with his friend's dad and people to go blue grouse hunting somewhere outside of Bountiful. We had decided to cancel hiking and biking since I had a horrible cold. So instead of doing our usual adventurous activities I decided it'd be nice to go shopping. So Jessica, Sarah, Lisa and I went home decor shopping. It was a blast and we all came away with great Halloween and Fall decorations at a great deal too, of course. Then we ate Noodles for lunch-my favorite! Then the plan for the evening was for Jess, Sarah and I to go to Relief Society General Conference at the Conference Center in Salt Lake. Sarah had never been to a live session of Conference before so it was a fun thing for the 3 of us to do together. The talks were amazing, of course, and I was reminded how much I actually enjoy watching conference in the conference center.


After that we headed over to meet the boys at Tucanos in Salt Lake. It's gorgeous! It's bigger then the Provo one and had great lighting (my favorite). The food was just as good and we had a great time. It's Travis's favorite restaurant so he definitely enjoyed himself especially after a long day of hunting.

On Sunday, we slept in. I had just been so exhausted from my head cold that sleeping was exactly what I needed. So Sarah and David got back from church around 11:30am, just in time for us to wake up and do breakfast. :) We got ready and ate and then headed off to church with Jessica and Thomas. After Church we met back up with Sarah, David and Joe (who was making cookies-his assignment for the pot luck later that night) and decided to head up Provo Canyon to check out the changing leaves and to see if the fishing was good. It was so beautiful up there! Fall is definitely my favorite time of year and I miss all of the colors and the plants and everything. It was a nice escape.

That night Jessica & Thomas hosted a pot luck with our friends. Lisa & Mike came, Jocie & Scott, Wyatt & Mindy, and the fam of course. We had blue grouse buffalo wings for appetizers, compliments of Travis's hunt and they were a hit! So yummy! Jessica's cute little apartment held us all well and we enjoyed a yummy pork roast with corn, mashed potatoes and salad. It was so nice catching up with Lisa and Jocie! I miss them tons and miss even more just laughing with them. It's so easy to laugh when you are with old friends. We played games as well and I lost it laughing so hard playing my favorite game-catch phrase. :) We said our good-bye's to everyone that night since they all had work and school the next day.

Monday Travis and I went fly fishing in the Provo River. It was a great adventure. I'd never fly fished in a river before and I made good use out of my waders. It was pretty difficult standing in a rushing river and trying to walk in my father-in-law's boots (since I don't have any of my own yet), but I did ok and didn't fall in, although I was worried. Travis was teaching me how to cast and place the fly and where to place it and everything. At the end of his little lesson he casts the fly and totally catches a fish! It was amazing! I told him he should be on a fishing show or something with skills like that. :) I tried a bunch of times and almost caught a fish twice, but it's super hard. We did get some good pictures though.


Next we went to Cabelas again because of course 45 minutes on Friday night was not long enough. So we took our time going to each dept and unfortunately were not every successful. They were out of a lot of things we wanted. Bummer... We did find a medium sized tent we liked and are asking for it for Christmas this year, so that was good.

Anyway, that was our much needed, long awaited trip to Provo. It was so good to see everyone and I hope that someday we'll be able to live in the same town as my family and our old friends again.