salt lake city!

Spencer and I got back from a long weekend in Salt Lake on Tuesday morning. We were there Friday to Monday for Spencer's Nana's 85th Birthday, Emerson's 2yr. birthday, and an American Le Man series race. We stayed at Nana's on S. Temple with M and D Marshall, and took advantage of the downtown location with morning and evening walks through the Avenues and Federal Heights. Dreamy! Everything was blooming and green. The houses were to die for, and the weather was perfect! I love summer! We saw Ty and Kumari's new house at Thanksgiving Pt. and made a day of exploring the gardens and the other attractions there. We were able to get Cafe Rio salads (a favorite Utah pastime) and we also dropped in at Ikea. We met up with some good friends while we were there. Aubry and I stayed up until 2am one night watching old Shanty videos. And I was also able to meet up with Jen and Mishelle and their husbands at the race, and to take Jen's bridal pictures. Our flight was delayed 2 hours on the way home, so Aubry entertained us with Market Street desserts and a tour of Temple Square. We finally climbed into bed at 2am Tuesday morning, and had a harsh wake up to reality when work rolled around. We had a great time and it was so fun to see family and friends.

feeling a bit refined...

Spencer and I spent 2 nights in a row at the Denver Performing Arts Center last week. The complex itself is pretty amazing and the events were great.
Thursday night we attended a charity dinner and auction for the Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center, which is the organization that
Spencer's cycling team is raising money for. The meal was amazing, the auction items were to die for and the speaker was great. Way better than the Greek Toga Party we attended the week before. One of the best
auction items was a trip sailing around the globe, and porting in places like Bermuda, and Dubai. It has definitely been added to my list of things to do before I die...and once I get rich of course.
On Friday night our friend offered us free tickets to attend the Colorado Symphony performance. Kevin is an internationally renowned french horn player that plays in the symphony here. He graduated from Julliard and is leaving tomorrow to tour with the Philadelphia Symphony in Asia. The orchestra was playing with a french/salsa type band called Pink Martini. Sounds a little odd, but they were really pretty great.
On Saturday night we rented "La Vien Rose" and after all this French
music I'm thinking I'd like to learn the language. Maybe I'll stop at that Rosetta Stone kiosk in the mall this week.