Utah...

I have emerged, struggling, from the evil clutches of the car after a eight-hour battle. This sounds a lot cooler than "I just drove home from Utah." That was really long in a way, and really short in another. Here is a summary of the trip's events.

• Tuesday: Pack for trip.
• Have dad get very mad at mum for taking forever.
• Drive from house.
• Get severely POed at Mo for getting the wrong cord for the DVD player, cutting off some of our entertainment.
• Spend eight hours listening to Pride and Prejudice, eating Mike+Ike's until wanting to throw up, sleeping, having people sleep on your lap, listing all the geographical landmarks beginning with "A", and reading.
• Enter Utah Valley.
• Go on trip down memory lane with mom and dad from their college days (insert Mo: "Hey, look Moriah! There's where you were concieved!" Thanks Dad.)
• *Grumpily retrieves the keyboard from Mo* Give Randy+ Jen (aunt and uncle) and offspring (Kiersten, Natalie, Ian and Truman) fifteen minute warning before we show up.
• Show up and talk for several minutes.
• Make plans to go to dinner to Brick Oven (a pizza place where, fun fact, Dad took Mum on the date when he first kissed her) with Randy+Jen+Offspring.
• Register for Turkey Trot, four-mile race on Turkey day.
• Go to Brick Oven with Randy+Jen+Offspring, order pasta, stuff face.
• Go back to R+J+O's house.
• Play scrabble with Mo, Kiersten, and Natalie.
• Go home, fall asleep in car.
• Arrive at grandparent's empty house that we are staying at while they're in Japan.
• Wednesday: Get mad because everybody is taking forever to get ready.
• Revive Mo from heart attack after seeing our uncle David's picture of when he was younger, and looked a lot like a certain someone...
• Shop at Wal-Mart for christmas presents for relations, food (there is none of it in the house), and ballet flats for Mo.
• Go home, have lunch, watch Back to the Future III.
• Drive to Seth+Karelynn (aunt+uncle) and offspring (Kenzie+Kendyl)'s house.
• Take tour of house, gape at some of Seth's drawings. (he's an animator for Sony (he was using GOLD LEAF))
• Watch Surf's Up (one of the movies Seth worked on) with cousins. It was definitely better than Monster House.
• Drive home.
• Cooked dinner, ate dinner.
• Watched Mobsters and Mormons, one of the funniest movies EVER! Even dad was laughing his head off!
• Go to bed.
• Thursday, Turkey Day: Awoken by mother at 5 am. Not very happy about this.
• Get ready to run a race. Am cautioned about how cold it is out there.
• Go to race. Realize how cold it is out there.
• Meet up with relations. (Grandpa Hippen, Aunt Holly, Cousins Allison, James, Elaine, and Steven, Aunt Hillory, Cousins Serenity and Katie, Uncle Seth, Aunt Karelynn, Cousins Kenzie and Kendyl, Uncle Nate, Aunt Heather, Cousins Chase, Avery and Courtney, Uncle Eran, Aunt Hannah, and Cousin Sydney *whew*)
• Participate in Turkey Trot. Make up story about worm mosh pit. Nearly get frostbite.
• Eat after race snacks, watch "kid's races".
• Try to win turkey/pie from random drawing. Are grievously disappointed.
• Go home, use binoculars to view huge stoplight. Scream. Get laughed at.
• Watch Earnest. (P2P's version was better, but this one is still great!)
• Take nap.
• Wake up.
• Take another nap.
• Go to Grandparent's house for Thanksgiving dinner.
• Watch Meet the Robinsons (pretty stupid) with cousins
• Engage in lively conversation with Aunts and Uncles (Eran is so funny!)
• Watch part of Night at the Museum witih cousins.
• Uncle Eric, Aunt Ginette, and Cousins Connor and Declan arrive.
• Eat Thanksgiving dinner. Get third helpings. Nearly throw up.
• Go on walk with some of relations (too lazy to list them all)
• Return to eat "the pie course".
• Eat a slice of pumpkin pie. Feared explosion.
• Watch part of "Hairspray" with cousins.
• Discuss scary movies with Aunts and Uncles.
• Go home, sleep.
• Friday: Spend eight hours listening to Pride and Prejudice, eating Mike+Ike's and Milk Duds until wanting to throw up, sleeping, having people sleep on your lap, and reading.
• Return home to our 45 degree house in honor and glory.

Looking back, I watched a lot of movies and nearly threw up quite a lot on this trip. Oh well. Hope everyone had lots of purkey and some tumpkin tie!