Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Long Crazy Night

Saturday night was the Relief Society Broadcast. Tiffany got tickets to the conference center so we decided to meet our friends and take TRAX down and then go to dinner afterward. We wanted to try something from Salt Lake's Dine O' Round and decided on Cedars of Lebanon.

As we left the peaceful and uplifting spirit of the Conference Center, we noticed quite a different atmosphere downtown . As we walked we saw a few rather rowdy and scantily clad groups. The further we walked, we saw more and more of them. In fact, people all over were running around in their underwear!

We got to the restaurant as quickly as we could and tried to ignore the skivvies passing by the window. Cedars is a Lebanese/Moroccan restaurant. The setting is very exotic. They also have live bellydancers, which made me pretty uncomfortable for the guys who met us there. The meal was delicious- especially the lentil soup, lemon chicken, and hummus. However, the service was VERY slow. We finally got out at about 10:30.

We were relieved to get on a crowded train and away from the undie crowds shouting profanities about BYU and the angry street preacher man. Just when we thought we were out of it, a group of particularly skimpy undie wearers jumped in next to us and said they had to "get away from that weirdo." When I heard that and saw Tiffany's expression, I had to laugh.

To top things off, we soon realized that our train stops running to Daybreak after 10:30 and we would only be able to get to the Sandy station. Our friend's brother kindly picked us up and took us back to our cars- which were at two different stations- due to a miscommunication at the start of the night. Ha ha.

Crawling into bed just after midnight... I was grateful...to Eric for rescuing us, to Trisha for asking him to come, to Amy for being such a trooper when she wasn't feeling well, to Tiffany for keeping things light, and to Heavenly Father for the message given by Elder Uchtdorf and for helping us to have a safe and enjoyable evening despite all the craziness.




3 comments:

  1. lol This one had us laughing the whole time! Caleb said, "Wow, we gotta go there!" I don't know if he is interested in the belly dancers or the skimpy undie wearers (I might have to stop him from joining them), I doubt it's the lentil soup. Anyways, sounds like a fun night! I loved the message by Elder Uchtdorf, probably one of my all time favorites.

    So next time we are in town....you know where to take us! Ha ha!!

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