Vaccination Vacation, Part 3: Highland, Ut!

MAY 5, cont’d: And so, a few hours later (PLUS the time it took me to walk from gate to curb in the new, disastrously bad Salt Lake Airport) Kristen picked me up and we got some Mexican ingredients for dinner and then she bought me a birthday Pretty Bird sandwich. Won’t someone please make a hot chicken sandwich that is hot enough! That night we made birria tacos and a bunch of TEENAGERS came over and ate them. The teens were all very polite! And at night we watched Walker, Christian and Nate skate.

MAY 6: Went down to Provo/Orem and ate at new area sensation, Holy Taco, with displaced NY’er Rebecca. The black sauce with the sesame seeds? Be careful! I like that they only have Al Pastor there. You may think it odd that I only had 3 tacos. You’ll see why I ate so light in a bit. After Holy Taco we went to the BYU art museum and walked around campus a little bit in the super bright mean sun.

And then I had Taco Lunch Number 2 with displaced NY-er Arthur. And then Erick showed up with a couple other New York kids. What a reunion!

MAY 7: Had a Salt Lake night and woke up the next morning in Midvale at Cher’s new crib. She took me aon her trademark 5 mile Midvale walk to show me all the sights. Seems kind of odd that I didn’t get a picture of Cher. I’ll try to do better next time.

Then I went and had lunch at Cancun Cafe, Grandma Barnes’s favorite restaurant, with Erin and Cindy. After that Erin treated Cindy and me to a walkaround of new house as it undergoes amazing renovation. Realizing that Erin lived rather close to Teresa I went over and paid a surprise visit to my aunt.

And then . . . I went up to Midway for dinner at Hawk and Sparrow Bread Company Headquarters and met their new employee!

MAY 8: This day I woke up in Highland. I went with Kristen and Cory to watch Walker’s lacrosse game but got the numbers mixed up and watched #39 the whole time thinking he was my nephew. Oh well!

Back at the house we started celebrating Cory’s birthday by discussing how to celebrate it. We wound up having sushi and going bowling, what a celebration! And then that night I got to meet up with the grown-ups at my first anti-masker restaurant! Sorry that I hardly have pictures of anything. I was chillin’!

MAY 9: Mother’s Day! And I got to celebrate by being part of the plot to surprise Cory’s mom down at Cover Fort where his folks are in charge of everything. It was a nearly successful surprise and a totally successful good time!

And even though it was a nice big outing we still had the strength to take a walk when we got back.

MAY 10: I spent most of what I thought would be my last day down in Salt Lake, seeing the sights (Temple construction), visiting Jake and Natalie, and getting Jaripeo with Tom, Cindy, Eve, Jared and lots of wonderful children!

MAY 11: I was going to go back to New York this day but my flight was so delayed that I just rescheduled it for the 11th. It was a pretty chill day. One thing I did was go to Costco with Kristen and take one picture while I was there. Just of watermelons. And then on the 12th I got up and went back to New York. No pictures of that, either. I took too many pictures at the beginning of this trip and didn’t have any picture-taking energy left by the end!