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You know, I spend every trip to SLC the same way. The first day I think how crazy the place is, remembering all the weird stuff that I'd forgotten like how the radio stations all play exactly the same music that they did 15 years ago, and the drivers in the white sedans always want to drive you off the road - or worse, enforce the speed limit. The third day in SLC I spend thinking that I miss everyone and I wish I could move back so I could see them more. And I spend the last day wondering why the hell I stayed so long and promising myself that I will never, ever come back unless absolutely required. Ha!

My favorite moment from the trip (of which I didn't get a photo - doh!) was the giant black Toyota 4Runner SUV in front of me at Starbucks. With the license frame: "Give more, consume less." LOL.

And while Jeffrey and his brother were out joyriding in brother's luxe BMW, I had some fun taking pictures of the creepy pony. Jeffrey's brother has this 4-foot animatronic pony which is, without doubt, the scariest toy I have ever encountered. I kept turning to look at it the entire morning, expecting it to be secretly advancing on us, ala Blink. So I had a bit of stop motion fun when they weren't around and let Jeffrey discover it on his own when reviewing the day's camera shots.

Today I am exhausted from lack of sleep and not a little sick from all the eating and drinking. I'm too old to have that much fun without paying for it in a big way afterwards. And my skin was pretty unhappy with all the extra sun and dry air. I feel like my whole face has inflated and turned cherry red. :( What I really need is a few weeks of rain to recover - but of course Seattle is sunny today.