Our Weekend in a nut shell...

We just got home from a very long weekend in Rexburg and I figured I better hurry up and blog it all now before I forget all of the things that happened!

On Friday afternoon at about 12pm we set out on yet another journey across Wyoming for a wedding. Well actually they were already married but we couldn't be there so went up to Rexburg for their reception. All was well. The weather was wonderful and cooperating and we were having great conversations in the car. It's amazing the things you come up to talk about when traveling through Wyoming. Anywho...we pulled in to Rexburg around 11:30pm, met up with my parents and then headed off to bed.

On Saturday morning we got up and had breakfast at Frontier Pies with my uncle, cousin and parents. If any of you have ever been to Rexburg you know all about Frontier Pies. It's not the best food in the world but let's face it you are in Rexburg so you take what you can get, but all in all it's a good place, with good people and country atmosphere. So we are all chatting and laughing and having a good old time when none other than Glenn Beck from CNN comes waltzing through and sits at the table next to us with his ontorage (sp?).

OK so Scot and I so are not inconspicuous as we proceed to tell everyone that Glenn Beck from CNN is sitting at the table next to us. I mean really who gets excited about some radio talk show host who is now on CNN? We do!!! Who would have ever thought that Glenn Beck would be in Rexburg at Frontier Pies? That's some good stuff!!

After breakfast my mom and I insisted on hitting some of our favorite Rexburg hot spots. We always have to go to the bookstore to get some memorobilia then we had to go to Porters, our favorite craft store. They always have such great things that I have never seen before. Love that! Once we had shopped we absolutely had to go up to the temple. We so wanted to be there for the open house but just never made it. Rexburg also holds a special place in my mom's heart because she grew up in the area.

You can barely tell but my dad, me and my mom are standing up there...
Rexburg has changed so much in the last three years since I was there. It's insane! The cold NEVER changes but they have a beautiful temple for one, a Walgreens, an Applebee's, 2 Subways, a new steakhouse (which is really gross by the way), and a ton of strip malls. It's just crazy!

After doing all of that running around we went out to Lewisville to visit more family and go to lunch at Chuck-a-rama. It's a big buffet out in Idaho Falls. Such a classic. Next we ran back to Rexburg to go to dinner with Scot's friend Randy, his wife Jessica and their cute daughter Aiden. We went to the aforementioned steakhouse which was rather disappointing for everyone involved but we had a great time catching up and laughing about old times. After dinner we all headed over to the open house of Scot's friend Jared. Jared and his new wife Jenni were married in the Oakland Temple last week. We weren't able to be there so we were so happy that we were able to go to their open house and see them. They are so happy and such a cute couple!

After the open house we stopped by Browlims to get some fry sauce. We always mean to do that but we always forget! We also forgot about how insane the grocery store can be on a Saturday night in Rexburg. Holy college kids Batman. They were everywhere!! Scot and I were talking about it on the way up and we were talking about how much fun it would be to live there again because it's a place that holds such a special place in our hearts but after about 2 hours of being there we decided it would not be so pleasant. Fun to visit no fun to live!

We started to head back to home after breakfast on Sunday morning. Again all was well, converstaion was good, roads were OK, just a couple of questionable areas like the ones pictured below at the top of the Teton Pass before driving in to Jackson Hole...

What?

Well after getting down off of that all was well again and we were on our merry little way. So we get to Rock Springs and one of those big old electronic signs says I-80 closed at Rawlins. The roads were just wet at this point so we thought that they would probably open it back up before we got there. So we were calling the Wyoming Roads Report number and it kept saying closed. Well sure enough as we pulled in to Rawlins and the further away from town we drove the less and less people we were seeing on the road until finally we drove up to the turning around point to go back to Rawlins. We couldn't believe it!!! So we turned around and got back on the freeway back toward Rawlins. We decided to go and walk around Alco (It's a Kmart type store) and use the bathroom and just kill some time before heading back down the highway. Well we were in Alco about 15 minutes and then came out and it was snowing like the dickens. So we went across the street to fill up the car and then we were going to go back down and wait at the gate with everyone else and watch a movie and freeze our hinies off until the road opened. Well as we thought about it and as the snow was falling we decided it might be a good idea to see if we could reserve a room JUST IN CASE we needed it. So we go ahold of my WONDERFUL sister in law Jennifer who helped us out with getting phone numbers, and road reports and she even booked our room for us on line which we did end up needing! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! So we went back down to the gate because at this point we are still holding out hope that we might be able to get home but when Scot talked to the cop that was at the gate and told him where we were heading he told us to head back to town and get a room before they were all taken. So we went back to town and there were trucks and cars that had slid off the road and that's when we really decided to just give up and go check in to our room and stay warm!!! You know it's funny, we always talked about how cool it would be to get snowed in. You always picture it as some warm and comfy cabin up in the mountains, with a fire and big shaggy rugs and plush couches but OF COURSE when it happens to us we are stuck in Rawlins, WY where there's an Alco, McDonalds and Pizza Hut. Great. How romantic. Well just to end my story they opened I-80 about 8:30 this morning and we were on our way.
We rolled in about 1:30 this afternoon and freshened up and headed in to work since we were supposed to be there today. I lasted a couple hours, just long enough to catch up my work and then I was out. Poor Scot is still there but we are so so happy to be home. All in all it was a fun weekend and so nice to see my mom and dad. We miss you guys already!!