Mary

Through the wonders of FaceBook I reconnected with a friend from BYU. Mary Len and I were floormates both freshman and sophmore years. We both lived on the 4-floor of T-hall in Deseret Towers. But after we said goodbyes at the end of Sophmore year in 1988 we have never seen or heard from each other. that is until last month on Facebook!

Mary came to Utah this weekend. We were able to get together and get caught up. It was so fun. I loved getting filled in on her life. We told the waitress that this was the first time we had seen or talked to each other in almost 21 years so she pretty much left us alone for 4 hours. Thanks Mary for coming and arranging the get together.

1st photo we took our eyes were closed so for the
re-take we both posed wide-eyed (a little too much)

Cross Country Skiing

My neighbor Kim noticed in the paper that Solider Hollow was discounting the fee to cross country ski for the month of March, until they have to close. Normally $37 for a full day was only $6. Gotta love a deal like that!

Back in Chicago my friends and I went x-country skiing lots, so much I even have my own skis. But that has been over 20 years. I was excited to go out and try x-country again. I also wanted to try the Solider Hollow venue. For those who don't know it is the venue created for x-country skiing for the Olympics.

We went up last Saturday. It was painfully obvious that Illinois is FLAT and Utah is NOT. I struggled since there was a little too much down hill. But I enjoyed learning to maneuver the hills and improving.

Kim's son Sam and the neighbor boy Ben were naturals and I didn't even try to keep up with them. Poor Kim followed the boys and their frantic pace for almost 2 hours. The day was sunny and bright. With the crisp clean mountain air it was just wonderful being outside.All of us ready to go(L to R: Sam, Ben, Kim and Me)


The Olympic torch landmark remains
since it was once an Olympic Venue.

All Shook Up

Last Wednesday night my neighbor, Kim Seager, and I went to dinner at Iggy's and then over to the play "All Shook Up" at the Hale. The play was high energy and really fun. Dinner at Iggy's was yummy but the TVs were a little loud for conversation. Although I'd like to go back and watch a BYU football game on the four 110 inch TVs. Kim and I had a lot of fun.