Thursday, June 12th, 2008
My friend Robynn came by work and interviewed me for a piece she was doing for a local news radio station. This is one of those times where hearing the sound of your own voice sounds like nails on a chalkboard or pulling apart cotton balls, but I think that she did a great job!
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
A couple of weekends ago, several of us from OrangeSoda competed in the First Annual Utah Valley Race All Night Competition. My four-person team was made up of my wife Landry, Amber, Michael, and myself. The prize for the winner was an all-expenses-paid trip to Cancun, Mexico and we really wanted to go to Mexico! We didn’t win but we had a blast. Landry couldn’t walk the day after and I was as completely drained for a couple of days afterward.
Here’s a list of the activities in the order in which we did them:
Day 1 - Friday
- Searched for hidden pieces of paper all over Owlz Stadium at UVU
- Played arcade games at Trafalga until we got 50 tickets
- John Hutchingson Museum
- Home #6 on the Parade of Homes on Traverse Mountain
- Statue Hunting in Downtown Provo
- Seven Peaks Waterpark to slide down “The Free Fall”. I pushed Landry down because she was too scared to do it on her own!
- A car dealership in Lindon to test drive a car to the Purple Turtle and Discovery Park
- Bajio’s in Orem for shrimp tacos
- Coldstone Creamery in Spanish Fork to eat a half gallon of ice cream before they would let us move on!
- Bowled in Payson
- Sundance for mountain biking, hiking, and limerick writing
- My Noah’s for billiards and wallyball
- After Midnight - BYU to take pictures of campus landmarks
- After points were tallied, we were in 3rd place out of 30 teams. We were in bed by 2:00 a.m. at SCERA Park and back up again at 3:45 a.m.
Day 2 - Saturday
- 5:10 a.m. - Hiked Y Mountain
- Canoed on Provo River down by CLAS Ropes Course
- Ice Cream at the Big Red Barn
- Lavender Farms for paddle boats and rock climbing
- Spring Lake for trout fishing
- Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork for walking llamas around an obstacle course
- River rafted down Provo Canyon
- Corporate Alliance Hub for Pride & Prejudice Era dance lessons. (Glad I don’t have any pictures!)
- Springville Museum of Art for I Spy-like activity
- The Quarry rock gym for rock climbing. By this time, we were absolutely exhausted, our bodies were shaking.
- Texted on phones at the Sprint store in Orem
- Back to SCERA Park by 2:00 p.m.
It really was a once-in-a-lifetime experience but I would have to seriously think about it before doing it again! Check out the official website for the race.
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