Birthday Weekend

To continue the fun of my birthday we decided to have a birthday weekend together since we couldn't really spend the day together on my actual birthday. A little back story, before we had gotten married I had gone to this wedding expo and they had this grand prize for one lucky winner, and what do you know I won that big grand prize. One of the wonderful prizes that was part of the grand prize was a free night stay in a Hamptonn Inn hotel. The only catch was it was only valid at either the Lehi hotel or the Salt Lake hotel (not somewhere real fun like california or something) so we decided the Salt Lake hotel would be the best choice.

We went that same weekend of my birthday and planned to head up to Salt Lake Friday night after I had gotten off work. Come to find out there was a BYU football game on tv that night so we of course had to watch that before we could head up to Salt Lake. So we headed over to Lance's brothers house were a group of people were hanging out watching the game. The game ended a little after 9:00 so we didn't get to our hotel till about 10:30.

There wasn't any ice cream places or even gas stations to get treats around the hotel so we headed down to the vending machines to see what goodies we could get there. I looked in my wallet and saw that I only had about 3 dollars in my wallet so we asked the front desk for quarters and we both just got a Dr. Pepper.

The next day we got up and got ready to go see the Halloween dance production called Thriller. This was another one of Lances thoughtful gifts to me. He knew I liked watching dancing and even found out that one of the dancers from the show So You Think You Can Dance was in the production and knew that I liked that show and might like that this person was in the production (again very thoughtful).

The show started at 2 and we got to the theater hall at about 1230 just to make sure we got tickets because when Lance called earlier in the morning they said tickets were going fast. Once we got the tickets we found a subway close by and just got a quick bit to eat before the show.

We were able to take our seats about a half hour before the show started, and our seats were the last seats possible right against the back wall. Which was fine with me because I felt I had a good view of the whole stage.

As we were waiting for the show to start they have these dancers dressed as zombies and they walk around just scaring people. Lance wanted to get a picture of me with one of them but they never traveled all the way up to where we were seated and I wasn't about to go up to one of them and ask them. The production was about two and a half hours long and my sweet husband sat through the whole thing for me. It was a great entertaining show I enjoyed it and Lance even said there were some dances he enjoyed too.

Sorry this picture is a little blurry

After the show we headed over to the Gate Way and ate dinner at Tucanos. Tucanos is this delicious brazilian restaurant that has this buffet of brazilian meats and when its your birthday month you get a free meal there, so of course we take advantage of that. Also when its your birthday they sing to you and give you ice cream.

I wanted Lance to take a picture when they were singing to me because they made me get on a chair and shake this tambourine while they sang to me but they went so fast that he couldn't get the picture in time.

After we ate we walked around Gate Way (which is a big outdoor mall) for a little bit and we ended up in the Apple store looking at all their cool trinkets. We ordered the new Iphone 4s so we checked out what all the cool new features were on those. 

As we were walking around the Mall we got an invite from Lance's brother to one of his friends Halloween parties up in Salt Lake. So we drove over to this friends house and before we went in the house we watched people walking in and realized that we might be the only ones not dressed up. So we found a Smiths close by and checked there selection of Halloween costumes. After we debated for a while with the selection they had,  we decided to check out the Walmart near by to see if they had a wider selection of costumes. Again we found ourselves debating for a while over that selection of costumes at Walmart and found there costume selection was to expensive. As a last resort we decided to check the Kmart across the street, and if we didn't find anything there then we'd just not be dressed up and would be prepared for the ridicule we would get for not having costumes. Well low and behold we came across these jail inmate costumes that were on sale for $10 each, sold. So we hurried back to the friends house, changed in the car and joined the party.

Cute little Ben wanted in our picture

Me and Baby Ben

Lance's brother Ross and sister-in-law Megan

It was a great, fun filled birthday weekend!