Good weekend

This weekend has been great! The Larson's came up and we went to Beaver Mountain for a half-day of skiing. I loved it. I wish I could ski more than just the once a year outing with them. I threw in a picture or two of the skiing.

After we went to the Indian Oven. It was good. We all ordered about the same thing. I was shocked that both Weston and Teresa asked for HOT! Wow. Even the owner was a bit surprised. Meg had a close call when she thought she was ordering medium size when actually medium was the temperature. Close call; we all stepped in and prevented that from ending badly.

We went to the Pow Wow this year. Gabrielle really enjoyed watching the dancing. I liked the clothing and flourishes.

To finish off the weekend, Brit and I are catching up on The Voice. I found the coolest Obi-wan Kenobi bumper sticker...

New Orleans

New Orleans has such beautiful architecture. It also has creepy mannequins in bunny costumes.

I was able to visit Bourbon Street. Wow. It's like Las Vegas all concentrated into a few blocks.

Britain and I went to Muriel's in Jackson Square (a famous public square of a Cathedral). It was a very fine dinning experience. I had BBQ shrimp and Brit had Blackened Redfish. Amazing!

We went for beignets at Cafe Du Mond, a New Orleans famous coffee shop. Very good.

I've added photos of much of this and also a Mardi Gras beaded tree. Lots of beads on many of the trees.

Good trip. Nice place.

30 day thing...

So that really failed. I am not a great blogger and I'm okay with that. Ai just published posts from last August that I'd written but not published. I probably should have reviewed them before publishing them to see if there I something that changed... Oh well.

I am enjoying coaching the swim team right now. It may be early but it's fulfilling and what I like to do. Small crew today but this first week back in school has been great attendance overall. Tomorrow we volunteer at the USU Hockey game as staff. We are one of only 3-4 other club sports that are willing to go and support the Hockey Club Sport (yes, hockey is a club sport, not NCAA, each player pays $800 to play, no scholarship, no massive budget or political clout like basketball or football, also we still come in as the 3rd highest attended sport after those two, SO STOP TRYING TO CHEAP OUR AWESOME TEAM OUT BY SNEAKING IN!!!). Okay off my soapbox. The swim team gets a $100 incentive to volunteer. It is an opportunity available to club sports only, something the spectrum and Romney stadium cleaning should consider. Why outsource to every local volunteer group when our own clubs need money?! I'm talking club sports and student clubs alike. Heaven forbid we help our own students. Sorry, soapbox.

A big project in my department is the new student Rec center. We hope to have students vote for the building and the accompanying turf fields end of February. It's an exciting project that I hope goes through. We have years of history behind it like the first time a proposal went through, politics with the upper administration and a member of. The community got the project cancelled around 2000. Not this time. We have loads of support. We have a building that was designed for a campus population of 8000 serving almost double that. We need it!

So this type of blogging suites me better. Just type. I am more likely to blog in this form. Plus I am using the Blogger app and that makes it more convenient to use too.

As always, I love my wife, my daughter, and I am blessed to have them.