We left for Salt Lake City on Thursday morning. It only took us seven hours to reach our final destination. I checked into my room, unpacked, and got settled in. The big news upon arriving was of course the safe return of Elizabeth Smart. Helicopters hovered above my hotel for much of the day and a large celebration was held in Liberty Park on Friday. I met up with friends who came for the wedding and we all headed out on the town. We ate dinner at the Market Street Grill and afterwards some of the late nighters went and had drinks a the seedy Deseret Lounge which was just a beer bar (crazy Utah drinking laws only allowed them to serve beer), and the later on to Cheers To You.

Friday mostly consisted of skiing Snowbird. It’s a great mountain. It snowed continually all day with near blizzard conditions and very limited visibility in the late part of the morning. The snow was really soft but incredibly wet. It was almost like rain. I was absolutely soaked by about halfway through the ski day. It was weird, I have never skied anything like it. Fortunately temps stayed up and getting cold wasn’t a big factor.

That evening we had an anti-rehearsal dinner at Squatters. Afterwards a handful of us again went to Deseret Lounge to see a band called Edgar’s Mule play. I don’t recall them doing anything but covers. Everyone decided they were just an “O.K. bar band” but nobody would pay a $5 cover to see them. Decent background noise though. A little tip for Edgar: allowing the bar patrons to sing was a cool thing to do but actually sucked to listen to. We ended up shutting the place down and having such a good time we carried the party over to the hotel room till the wee hours of the night.

I nursed a hangover on Saturday morning and spent the afternoon preparing for the wedding. The wedding was held at Cliff Lodge at the Snowbird resort. The scenery was beautiful and the wedding was short but sweet, just the way I like it. The reception had an excellent jazz band, some great dancing, and lots of joke telling. There was lots of love in the room and it felt right.

It was a great weekend overall.