Girl's Weekend

Last weekend was our 2nd annual girl's weekend get away. This year, Jessica, Crystal, Liz and I (Tiff didn't come cause of Kade and it would have been hard on him cause it is really cold in Park City) left around 10:30 AM on Friday and got to Park City around 2:30 PM. After driving right by our hotel and not finding the street we were looking for Liz tells us that it was back right after we turned off the interstate. Sure enough there it was and we drove right by it again. But we were excited and after a "legal" U-Turn and through McDonald's parking lot were were there! We checked in and took our "small" bags into our room and were ready to shop the outlet mall.

We had a blast and shopped hard for 4 hours. But we didn't stop for lunch and by 7 pm we were very hungry. We found out that the stores didn't close until 9 PM so we decided to find something to eat at Robin Tuesday's. Took us a little while as Crystal drove and had a stand off with another car trying to get out of the parking lot as we were coming in. Of course we were tired and things were getting really funny by then. After freezing while we ate we soon return to finish our great shopping on the upper level that we didn't even know existed. Can you imagine our excitement when we found a whole other set of stores? Well when the stores shut their doors on us we decided that we need a squishy dessert and want to drive up the hill to see if we could find one. Jessica was elected to drive and was very skillful in missing the two raccoons that were trying to cross the road. Well we didn't find anything except the back lot of a bunch of business, post office and lots of garbage dumpsters--we really didn't know where we were going and it was very dark so we went back to yes, Robin Tuesday's. None of us ate much dessert but at least we felt we were doing the things you were suppose to do on "girls weekend."

We got back to our hotel--carried in all of our "great buys" to see if there was anything that we needed to return in the morning before we left. It was kind of fun as everyone dumped out their sacks and we looked everything over. Great Christmas gifts, Hagin's birthday and even Cole finally got some shoes that would fit. We put the stuff separate that we were returning and went to bed to get some much needed energy for the next day. Of course it was 11 PM by that time.

Well Jessica and her new found "friends" started texting at 6:15 AM so we were awake in our room. We both got up showered and then I wondered if Crystal & Liz were awake. Nope but they got right up and after breakfast at the hotel we were on our way back to return those items when the stores opened at 10. By 10:30 we were on our way to IKEA.

Well it really isn't very far from Park City to IKEA unless you take a detour (again--our whole trip was detours) downtown SLC. It just gave us more to laugh about. We set our timers and said that we only had 3 hours to shop IKEA and we did it. Now we were to load up our truck with those treasures plus a very large mirror Jessica bought for her house. We loaded so carefully and went to shut the tailgate, yep you guess it, it wouldn't shut. The whole idea of the truck was because it had a Tonto cover and would protect things. Luckily Rich left a tie down strap in the back and so we made it work. Took us longest to figure out how the tie down strap worked. Off to Layton to Tai Pan.

We had fun here! We each had a shopping cart full! Now to pack the truck--the back had every inch full and the inside did also. Poor Crystal had the least amount of room put she didn't complain (much). With our truck packed we had to figure out where to eat cause we were starving again! We decided to go to Out Back Steak House cause it was really close. After about a 30 minute wait to get seated we knew what we wanted and didn't want to wait. We ordered immediately and order a "Blooming Onion" for a appetizer.

What seemed forever they bought out our much anticipated snack and just as the guy got to our table, another waitress ran right into him and shoved the onion into him. He picks this plate away from himself, bits of onion falling to the floor, and he goes I'm so sorry, I'll get you another one. He took a step and Liz goes, "no, we will eat that one." It was so funny but we were so hungry and we ate it in less than 5 minutes I'm sure. Well the manager came out--said how sorry they were and that our "Blooming onion" that looked like flat mushroom would be complimentary. We were happy! Well--we got the rest of our dinner and soon were on our way home arriving home around 11 pm Saturday night. What a fun weekend except we did miss Tiffany and excited that she will be with us next year!