No pictures

What? No pictures from your Idaho trip? Who are you and what have you done to Michal?

Ok, so that's a lie. I have three pictures from my Idaho trip. One of Allie playing soccer and two of the Ralph Smeed sign (one of the old and one of the new). And that is it. Honestly, I promise. So again, I will ask, who are you and what have you done to Michal?

Well anyway, even without the pictures, it was an awesome trip. Here's a quick recap of each day.

Friday: Wake up at the buttcrack of dawn (and yes Megan, I said buttcrack) and spent all day driving up to Idaho. Stop at the WONDERFUL bread place in Bishop and a few other places but mostly drive all the way up. Chris does all the driving while Michal gets to sleep, listening to books of CD and sleep some more.

Saturday: Breakfast at Perkins with Allie and the Dufault girls (minus Beth). Allie regales us of stories from the corn maze, including her chucking a corn cob at a girl who came after her later. After some hanging out at the hotel, we head over to ACI (Sorry, I still have trouble calling it C of I)for the games and Taste of the Harvest. I miss the first half (when the other team scores) of the women's game because i am drinking wine and hanging out. I saw Jocelyn, Dori, John Reuter, Steph Carlson and a few other people. Felt bad about missing the first half so sat with Amy and Aussie inside McCain while the rain POURED down and threatened to ruin the rest of teh game. Eventually it went away and watched Allie score in the second half. Got some more wine and then watched the boy's game. Man, I miss this! The heckling, the shoving, the fighting, the scoring, it was epic! Headed back to the hotel to grab my stuff, drove out to Boise, picked up my SWEET red ride, went to dinner at the Cheesecake Factory, bought my Ste. Chapelle wine and then headed to Miss Kristen's house.

Sunday: Headed out to Sterry for church. Was marveled over by all the lovely people there. Pastor Mark and his family weren't there but Paul Epperson introduced me which was nice. Went to lunch with Hester, Sandy and a few of the other old ladies. They love me. It's very nice. Chatted with them, caught them up on my life and then headed into Caldwell. Had a LONG chat with Dori at Moxie about pretty much everything. She gave me some book recs and vice versa and overall, it was an AWESOME chat. I was late to get to Mary and Ted's house for our very reduced but still awesome small group dinner. It was great to chat with everyone and enjoy Mary's amazing cooking (I was STUFFED!)

Monday: Spent the night at Mary's and then headed over to school. Chatted with Dennis and Sue, saw Mee-Ae, Steve, Howard, had lunch at good old Simp with Allie (no croissant sandwiches!) :( went to say hi to Mark Smith, arranged to meet with Steve the next day, worked on getting my thesis printed, pretty much had a great day wandering around my alma mater. Headed back into Boise, had dinner on the balcony with Brookie and Bailie and then went downtown to see Alisa's apartment and walk to Thomas Hammer to have coffee. Told her all about the fated England trip, spied on Daniel Grad, got to haer all about what she was doing. IT was a great catch-up session. Felt like CRUD when I got back so I downed a few Tylenol PM and crashed.

Tuesday: When I finally woke up (seriously, it was like 10:30), I hung around Brooke's house for a bit and then headed out to buy Allie a "California lunch." I showed up at the house with Del Taco and Jamba Juice, yum! We had a really good chat and then i headed over Moxie to meet with my favorite prof ever, Dr. Steven Maughan. It's always awesome to talk with him and get some book recs (two of which I've already read and loved). Then I headed over to Jocelyn's classroom. It's so incredibly cute, I am so in awe of people who teach elementary school. We headed over to Rembrandt's afterwards to have some coffee in the uber cool coffee house. I had dinner with Brooke and Bailie again and hung out with my girl Bailie after dinner.

Wednesday: I had nothing the whole morning so I hung out at Brooke's, watched Smokin' Aces in her AWESOME basement movie theatre and eventually headed over to Timberline. I talked to Charles and Doug, told them about my last year, got some lesson ideas from Doug and then headed over to the alumni event at the Bardenay. Yosh and Kirk and Jake and a few other people that I knew were there. We talked and listened to Jasper LiCalzi spout his ideas about local and national politics. I'm definitely bummed that I never got a chance to take a class from him but this sort of kind of made up for it. After the even, Yosh, Eric, Lourdes, Sam and I went out to sushi. I wasn't sure what I liked (I had to make an emergency call to Megan) but had a cucumber roll and california roll and it was delis. And I used chopsticks! Go me! Afterwards we headed over to the HAPENNY! My favorite place! I had the Ace Pear Cider and it was yummy yummy yummy. I didn't really know Eric, Sam or Lourdes at school but again, this is why I love ACI. We didn't have too much in common but we had an awesome time all hanging out and talking and it's all because we went to the same school. Love it!

Thursday: Said goodbye to Brooke and headed into town to get coffee and bagels with Kristen. Even though I had spent the night at her house as well as had dinner with her at Mary's, it was good to have some one-on-one chat time with her. After, I headed to Pita Pit, grabbed lunch and then went to the airport. The flight home was uneventful, I spent my two and a half hours in SLC grading papers and listening to classic rock and reading my Supernatural magazine. Got home in time to make it to the baptism. Love it!

I LOVE YOU IDAHO!