vacation day 1

i stayed up super later late friday night trying to finish packing. i ended up going to sleep well after 1am and got up right at 5am. we were out the door by 5:40am. we got to the airport with no problems. a shuttle bus was right there at the stop after we parked the car. we got our bags checked and headed to security. i went right through after i had to show the metal detector guy that the id checker guy did in fact sign my boarding pass. then chris went through. and then 4 different people got called over to look at the xray machine. and then the supervisor came over and made the executive decision to pull chris's backpack. they go over to the special check area and the guy starts pulling everything out. flipping through books, feeling through things, he swabbed the bag and then pulled out chris's little plastic compass.
"why do you have this?" he asks.
hmmmmm chris thinks to himself- how do i answer this without being a jerk. . ."umm that is a compass"
"i know it is a compass, why do you have it?"
"so i know what direction i am going?"
"fine"
the dude takes the compass and a couple of other things to the xray machine and everything gets cleared. wow. i love the tsa.

so, after that we got some really gross breakfast tacos and got on our flight. we had to do a layover in vegas. the flight was full of people going to vegas- including 2 bridal parties. even at 7am these people were ready for vegas. so, what happened on that flight, stays on that flight!

the flight from vegas to salt lake city was uneventful. we got our bags and picked up the rental car. it is a super pimp altima with a rf clicker. no key for the ignition- you just push the start button! it came equipped with the hertz neverlost gps. it is a pretty nice car- except for the smokers that had it before us. . .

so we got to will and katie's place with no problem although chris almost missed the hairpin turn- again. we also turned down the wrong street for their house. "neverlost"- more like "most of the time you know where you are but we can always guarantee that statement".

we hung out for a little bit and got cleaned up. we headed out to the ballpark about 5:30pm. we saw the salt lake bees play the tucson sidewinders. salt lake won 6-2. we stayed after the game to watch the fireworks show. i gotta admit- the fireworks were super cool. unfortunately, i have no pictures. i forgot the camera in my backpack.