Moms Weekend Visit!

Last weekend Brandon's Mom Christy came to visit us! She arrived Thursday afternoon and left on Monday night so we had lots of time to play. Here was our itinerary:

Thursday: Went and ate dinner at El Matador, a favorite place of Brandon's family. If you go we recommend the sopapillas, or scones, because they are amazing. We also stopped by the Draper temple on our way home because it is so stunning. Then we went home and watched "The Happenning" freeeakkyyy...but pretty good.
Friday: I took the day off! We got Taco Time for lunch (YUM) and we all drove to SLC to try and go to the zoo, but whoops nobody told us they closed at 2:30pm that day! So instead we went to the "This is the Place" Heritage park right across from the zoo and learned a lot about the pioneers! Then we went and walked around Temple Square, and watched the new Joseph Smith movie and I forgot what it was called, but it was in the Joseph Smith Memorial building and we all loved it. It was told from the perspective of Joseph's mother, SO neat. :) Then we went home and watched "Meet the Fockers" (or "Meet the Frockers, if you prefer :) ).

Saturday: Zoo day! We went to the Hogle Zoo and actually got in this time. We walked around that whole park dangit, we saw everything! I think our favorite was the giraffes, they're so bizarre and cute!! The baby elephant was also precious though, he was playing in an inflatable pool while being sprayed with a hose, it was ADORABLE. After the zoo we went to visit Brandon's uncle and Christy's brother Lynn and his wife Marie. I had never met them before so it was great to finally get to meet and visit with them for awhile, they were so nice! After our visit we went to the famous Utah Noodle! Well maybe it's only famous to Brandon's family, but they have been going there since they were young and they say it hasn't changed one bit. It is in Ogden and it was SO good. They had HUGE breaded shrimp and sweet and sour pork that was brown, but tasted exactly like sweet and sour pork! It was so delicious. After that we of course hit up Farr's Ice Cream! My #1 favorite I think. I got strawberry, cookies&cream, and butter pecan and it is so amazing people, you NEED to go. Brandon & his mom like Grape Ambrosia, Play Dough?, and Black Licorice.

Sunday: Went to church, then drove up Provo canyon to do a little fishing. Brandon caught a huge brown trout, which we promptly took home and made for dinner (trout cakes). Fresh fish is so dang good, straight from the river to the oven and it falls right off the bone, and has NO fishy taste at all.

Monday: We went to dinner at the Joseph Smith Memorial Bldg. I think the restaurant is called the Garden? On the top floor, and had a lovely dinner there. Then took mom to the airport! It was a super fun trip and we are so glad she came!

*Excuse the extreme detail, I have to write down everything I can remember as my excuse for not writing in my journal, this counts right? :)