Each Day Is a Gift

Had a RS/High Priest quilt-tying-salad-social last night where I ate too much yummy homemade salad and dessert.  Between the gluttony, the neighbor's dog barking and hubby's snoring I got a total of 2 hour sleep.  Stink!  :/

Got up early to quickly pack an overnight bag and out the door by 8:30am.  Today I got to go to *work* with hubby, not in his office, but on the road!  Yipee!!!  There was a huge traffic jam between Provo Center St. and University.  We were in a standstill for half an hour.  Had a coughing spell (from the asphalt paving and exhaust fume) which made me realize I forgot to pack my inhaler, Stink!  :/

Made it to Nephi where hubby parked at a gas station to do his conference call.  He's such a task master but also a great cheerleader! :) 

Next stop was in Fillmore where we visited with each teller, personal banker, operation manager, store manger.  Hubby is such a kind administrator! :)  We love the small hometown store where everyone is family!  The district manager and Randy, the regional manager and his wife came to cook a BBQ lunch for the bank folks and us.  Forced down a burger and skipped the potato salad and chips.  Still full from last night's gluttony...but didn't want to hurt Randy's feeling! :)

Then it's onto Parowan.  Did I mention I love the small town folks?  The store manager talked my ears off.  Again, they were so proud to show off their *WOW* and *Solution* performance!  They were so gracious and happy to see my hubby! :)

The last stop was Cedar City where we visited the store in historical downtown while hubby's boss visited the store in south part of town.  This is a much bigger and busier store than the two we visited.  Hubby and the store manager did a lot of reminiscing.  She had worked for 20 years while hubby has worked for 35 years in the same bank.  She filled us up on what's happening to some of the *old-timers*.  It was a good but long visit again with every single employee in the store.  Hubby is such a people person!

By the time we checked into our hotel, Springhill Suite Marriott, my dogs were dead tired from standing & visiting.  We had an hour to rest, clean up and get into our evening attire for the Board of Governor's Shakespeare Festival Gala.  There was a social hour with silent auction..more standing and visiting in heels, sipping sparkling juice.  I hate these kind of events.  The speech and presentation was long, dinner was cold.   As usual in these kinda gala, the dessert (a delicate & beautiful chocolate and cream concoction) and the salad were sitting on the elaborately decorated table probably for hours.  The salad was wilty.  I devoured the dinner roll.  I always love the crusty outside, soft inside, rolls, wish there were more. :) The entree was New York steak, grilled prawns with mango chutney, augrante potato with some fancy cheese sauce, baby carrots and squash.  It would have been delicious if it was hot.  There was just not even carb, so I ate the dessert which would have tasted good if it was cold.  As you can tell, everything was lukewarm.  But I shouldn't complain because the folks did a fabulous job to raise money for the new building to replace the old Adams theater.  This is a great year to do it being the 50th year of the Shakespeare Festival.

When dinner was finally over, we walked over to the theater for the show, the Music Man.  My knees were in bad shape as I walked down the stairs in heels.  I began to have thoughts of not running Bryce in the morning.  I dozed off a few times during the performance which was really quite entertaining.  I hope Earle (the Parowan store manager) and his wife seated beside me didn't see my snoozing off.  How embarrassing! :)  Finally at intermission, hubby mercifully excused us to head back to the hotel.  Hubby's boss assured us that he would tell us how the show ended! :)  

We hit the sack at 10:30pm.  The hotel suite was lovely, the bed very comfy.  Hubby promptly fell asleep while I stayed WIDE AWAKE!  What is wrong with me?!!! :)  I could doze off sitting up in a crowded theater during a marvelous performance yet could not sleep one wink in a comfy luscious hotel bed?  My legs and feet were soooo tired.

Life is grand!  :)