We took our annual pilgrimage to Cedar City for the Shakespeare Festival. Friday afternoon we dropped Colin plus girls off to their favorite neighbors four doors down, the Smith's, until Samuel came home from school. Samuel has late start on Fridays and the girls have early out. Kind of annoying. Then around 6pm, Aunt Hannah came over. She made them spaghetti dinner, played a fun candy game and then they got to watch a movie. Then the girls got to sleep in the same bed with her. They were excited about that. Not sure how Hannah felt about Cecily kicking her all night, lol. Then, on Saturday, Hannah made them pumpkin pancakes while Samuel went to a young men/young women's service project. Hannah left after lunch. They went to the Smith's again until Micaela and her crew came and finished up the job. I always get anxious when we leave town, even for one night. Especially since we didn't leave a cell phone with Samuel who was in charge. But our friends and family helped out and we came back to happy and safe children! Yay! We are so grateful to these families and friends who helped us out!
We lucked out and got 4 free tickets this year to the festival!! Our friends won them on a radio show and couldn't use them so offered them to us! We saw Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, a comedy. Both were excellent. We stayed at our usual location, however, the name was changed. It was Crystal Inn for the first 5 years and now it's a Ramada. We decided it's kinda ghetto and we're going to look at other options next year. The breakfast was fine. The property is more cleaned up but the beds and amenities kinda stink. One year we stayed at a B&B . Although I loved the proximity to the shows and walking distance to restaurants, we won't go that route again either.
We enjoyed delicious meals undistracted from our children. We went to our favorite Mexican hole in the wall place, La Casa Don Miguel. Then we went to Centro Pizza (sooo yummy) for lunch and The French Spot for dessert. It's this new little, street side hut type eatery, run by real French people. Tyler had a Creme brulee and I had chocolate mousse. Both were very delicious.
Saturday morning we attended a play seminar (each morning they offer a talk-back session on days previous shows) and an actor's seminar (when two actors come and we get to ask them questions!). I love to attend these, as I can relate to them and it brings me back to my college performance days. Sometimes I just really miss those times.
On our way we home we stopped at this Utah franchise restaurant called One Man Band Diner. I love diner's (and we had a coupon) so I was excited to finally try it. We pass it often when visiting my parents. Well, that location didn't honor our coupon so we continued north to the one in Lehi. I got my usual country fried steak and potatoes and they were delicious! I hope one day I'll get to make my girls poodle skirts and be able to take them to places like that. I loved going to Gunther Toody's in Arvada as a girl. I love the 1950's so I think that's why I love diner's, plus the food can just be so American. Love it.
So, that was our anniversary celebration! It was relaxing and memorable. I love that I still feel so comfortable with Tyler. We've certainly had our ups and downs, disagreements and moments of distress. But overall I feel blessed to be married to a good man.
Here are some previous blog posts with photos and videos that I've made over the years about Tyler or our anniversary!
http://stoehrs.blogspot.com/2009/10/feeling-itchy.html
http://stoehrs.blogspot.com/2008/11/feeling-better.html
http://stoehrs.blogspot.com/2010/09/labor-day-weekend.html
http://stoehrs.blogspot.com/2012/11/tyler.html with a video I made him for Father's day in 2012.
(except the video I made has copyright issues--I used a song that I don't have legal access to use, drat. So somehow I'll have to upload it some other way. You can still watch it...just without sound.
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