On New Years when I was eating the grapes to make 12 wishes, my first wish was to take Daniel to Utah so celebrate his 65th birthday.
It has been over 10 years since Daniel has celebrated his special day with family so I kept looking at plane tickets to see if we could afford to go but they were too expensive. I then resorted using our miles and that is how we went. It was the best spent miles ever! We left Saturday January 18 returning Sunday January 26 arriving this morning.
Sunday we were surprised as soon as we arrived by Cristi, Vera and the boys' visit.While the Dames stayed with us, on Monday and Tuesday morning we had breakfast at IHOP one day and the next at KNEADERS We loved visiting the U of U History Museum and to Logan to meet the new puppy. While driving through Brigham City, we noticed the kids were hungry so we stopped at the Fireplace for pizza, another kids friendly place.
Tuesday Jan. 21 was beautiful! It was a nice change of pace and the weather cooperated so Cristi could travel home. It didn't feel that cold either which was a plus. We celebrated Daniel's special day eating at Maddox his favorite restaurant in Brigham City.
On Wednesday I went to the Church office to get all my paperwork done for my VISA and saw both Bishop Causee and Elder Haynie which is always a shock when you are having a bad hair day. After that experience, I went to get my hair done and we went to Red Iguana for lunch and to Antivilos for dinner. I took a cake to sing happy birthday one more time because I had forgotten to record it the night before.
On Thursday we went to Dr.Hales to get our booster shot for shingles ( that hurt our arm the rest of the trip but glad it was done.) Purchased Daniel his birthday gift. Daniel has given Apple watches to his boys and I even suggested to Vale to ask her siblings to go in for another watch for Daniel since his watches are having issues and he loves watches and he cherishes them too but I don't think she got the memo. She did reminded us that we owed her money for some things we asked her to bring to Buenos Aires which at first I thought it was a joke but she was serious. An apple watch was the one gift I wanted him to have for Christmas or his birthday and that was the other wish that came true. In the evening, we had invited the Morrisons to have dinner with us but Ralph was not feeling well to go out so instead, we went for pupusas with Mandy and Spencer.
Friday we did as much as we could running errands and shopping for things to bring back to Argentina. We went out to eat with Gregg and Ann at the Olive Garden in Sandy.
Saturday Vale had invited us to eat at a new Pizza place but it wasn't open so we ended up eating Mexican at Maria's it was also super busy day visiting Hernan and family at his new home and continuing to Andy and familywho were celebrating the Chinese New Year with the most amazing yummy food. We continued over to Rebeca and Matias for another dinner and this time it was Noquis. Nacho and Anais and some other couple from Uruguay also joined in. Finally at around 10:30 p.m. Mandy came over to our apartment to say good bye.
Early Sunday morning we left to go to the airport. We had packed four suitcases, two carry on bags and two backpacks; that is our least favorite part of the trip. Going home!
Con amor,
Vero
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