Weekend in SLC

Every year my best friends from highschool and I get together(there's 4 of us) for a weekend get-away. It seems like it's becoming a yearly Salt Lake trip which is okay because the important part is that we are getting together not where. We can have fun anywhere! SaRene picked me up and we met up with Carol in Layton to shop at Kohls. And I actually found some cute stuff! Usually I never find anything(because what I want is never in my size)! And for once I found something my friend wanted but it was in my size, not hers(she's very thin)! So she couldn't buy it and I could! That never happens! Since everything was 50% or more off at the store I saved a couple hundred bucks! Gotta love that! Then we met up with Marilyn at the Marriott Hotel downtown. We headed to the Gateway Mall to eat at Z-Teja's(yummy crab tamales) and see a movie(The Adjustment Bureau---loved it!)--and enjoyed movie theater popcorn. And my friends laughed at me because I knew I would have left overs from the restaurant, so I brought little tupperware dishes to put my food in so those huge styrofoam boxes would not take up so much room in the hotel fridge(and it worked wonderfully). There are 2 double beds in the room so we have to share beds, but the room always has a couch hide-away. So I volunteered to sleep on it the 1st night which turned out to be good since I tossed and turned all night. Not even my relaxing music on my iPod got me to sleep! But the next night when I did share, I was so exhausted I fell immediately to sleep and didn't move from my spot(which you can't do anyway when sharing a bed). Anyway, the next morning we got 50-minute massages at one of the massage schools. It felt wonderful! But afterwards we couldn't stop laughing because we all had a "sheet"-face from laying on the tables. Then we showered and got ready for lunch and another movie(more popcorn)! For lunch we ate at Macaroni Grill---Carol and I split a mushroom ravioli dish--mmm! While waiting for our meal we played "spin the crayon"(their tables are covered with drawing paper and 2 crayons). So whoever the crayon "landed" on, had to draw something on the table! It was fun for the 5 minutes it lasted! Then we caught an early showing of The King's Speech---awesome movie!! Not only did I love the storyline of the movie, but there were lots of characters from Harry Potter movies(Dumbledore, Peter Pettigrew, Bellatrix) and Pride and Prejudice(the wife of the king's[Colin Firth aka P&P Mr. Darcy] speech teacher was none other than Jennifer Ehl[Elizabeth of P&P]) and Pirates of Caribbean(Barbossa). So I had fun seeing them in different roles! After the movie, we headed down to Desert Star to see Beverly Hillbillies 90210---it was funny& we got more popcorn, but I was getting so tired by that time(it started at 8:30pm) I could hardly keep my eyes open! Loved getting away from reality for a weekend!