Anniversary Weekend

these were basically my only hint, really, about where we were going. i was totally clueless. cowboy boots? what could that possibly mean? a lot of things. that was the problem. i seriously had no idea.

morning-of:

devin told me to pack warm. that the weather report was showing rain, so shorts would be pointless. i was okay with that. he also made sure i brought shoes and clothes that were grungy. hmmm....

after we packed, he took me to breakfast at our favorite sandwich shop, Ernie's. 

from there, we got in the car, I got blindfolded, and 2 turns out of the parking lot, I had lost all sense of direction. Devin asked me a few times if I had any idea where we were, and the truth was, I definitely didn't. At first, I had thought maybe we had gone down the Provo Canyon, but he kept stopping and making turns, which you don't do in the Canyon. I was also waiting for what would have been a dead giveaway for driving through Provo Canyon: the tunnel. But we drove for over an hour, me blindfolded, and to my knowledge, never went through a tunnel. (turns out, we were in the canyon the whole time! he stopped for construction, turned into parks a few times, and i guess i was just too distracted to notice the tunnel!)

Devin did a fantastic job of disorienting me. I didn't even know what direction we were traveling in. So after an hour, he said I could take the blindfold off. I opened my eyes to bright blue skies and red rock. My first guess was that we were headed south. St. George? Vegas? California? Nope. Shortly after, we passed a sign that had some Wyoming town names, but I was still confused. Maybe I was just still getting used to not being blindfolded. I finally guess: "Jackson?" I was right! 

Devin took me to Jackson, Wyoming!

we did encounter a few minor setbacks on the drive... like snow (what?) and we maybe got pulled over a little bit... but it's okay. we blame the mazda. it's so zippy and smooth, you can hardly tell you're going 79 in a 65. just kidding. we actually blame Jeff Foxworthy.

*Instead of posting one huge, long post, I decided to break it up. Partly to save us all from one big post, but also because it will be awhile before anything interesting comes up again, post-vacation to blog about, since we'll spend awhile getting back into the swing of things.