As most of you know, I spent a few days this week up in Logan to do some training and learn from a friend of mine, Cris Guymon. It was a very good couple of days, but talking about insurance training and meetings is not the most fascinating thing to put into a blog. so for all of you who decide to read this thing, I tried to make my trip home on Thursday a little bit more interesting.

I left in the morning, and the first thing that I decided to do was go to the Logan temple and take a couple of pictures because I had never seen the place in person. I didn't go in or spend much time there because I needed to be on the road heading home. Anyway, I got there and took some pictures from the parking lot, and here is one of them that turned out pretty nice.

After leaving the Logan temple I drove for about an hour, with my music and a nice cloudy sky to a small place in Roy. Laura and I were watching a show on Food Network one day that showcased a place called "The Burger Bar." So when I got there it was about 10:30 in the morning and I was not even close to hungry enough to eat a big old burger. So I got some onion rings and a snickers shake. The show said that the onion rings were great and awesome, I've had better. The shake was ok, but I could have gotten the same thing pretty much anywhere else. Here is a picture of the sign, the place has been around since like 1956, and it was cool to eat there, just not as exciting as I thought it would be.

After leaving the Burger Bar I headed south and was going to stop by my friend's house, but I couldn't find it, despite my directions and google maps, so that was a little bit of a waste of gas and time. I had also expected to stop at Danny J's apartment to play some guitar hero, but he had to be in class, so I just kept on driving. Something that I did see, which was awesome, was the National Guard tribute bike built by Orange County Choppers. There is a show called American Chopper and it shows a business that builds extravagant thematic motorcycles and I finally got to see one in person, at 75 miles per hour. I did manage to get a shot of it, because it was awesome!

After passing this by, I decided to take a couple of pictures of big signs, for cities that mean absolutely nothing and that nobody cares about. I took two pictures, one of a sign for Scipio, and the other the sign for Beaver.

If all that excitement weren't enough I saw a pretty big dirt devil and took some pictures of that, one of which I will put in here.

That is last of my pictures, I also counted 9 dead animals on the side of the road. I know that is a little gruesome but oh well, it kept me busy while driving forever through nothing. to tell the truth, I saw 11 dead animals, but 2 of them were so rotted and gutted that I decided not to count them because they looked like smudges, not animals. Well I hope you all enjoyed the ride home from Logan with me, it was so exciting that I just can't wait to do it again someday!

Graduation

Last week was the last week of spring semester, which meant finals and then finally graduation on saturday. It was a pretty crazy week on its own, but then having everyone come out to celebrate graduation just made it that much more insane. Not only were Laura and I graduating, but also my cousin Leslie, so her family came out as well.

Friday was fun, the rugby team got some guys together and played a little bit of two hand touch rugby on a muddy field, which was fun because people were slipping and sliding all over the place. That night we had 20 people in our group that went to Sizzler for dinner. Having my family (Grandparents + parents + Scott), Laura's family (parents + Emily and Matthew), and Leslie's family (parents + Ben + Jody and Zach), there to celebrate with us was just awesome.

Saturday was graduation day and Friday night both Scott and Matt stayed at our apartment, so we had to drop Scott off at the hotel, because he wasn't going to the graduation, then we dropped off Matt at the Centrum so that he could go in with everyone else to watch. Laura and I went up by the scence building and got in line...well, we got in a mass, then into a line later. Walking down was pretty cool, there were a ton of people graduating and the only bummer was having to pass the gay pride parents... Anyway the commencement was great, a girl had a seizure and found out that it was a 3 inch tumor in her head. President Monson gave a good speech, we moved our tassles and that was it. Once it was over, Laura and I bolted for the door and waited for everyone to come out so we could take a couple pictures then run off to AppleBee's for lunch, which was again with 20 people. That afternoon was the convocation and that lasted an hour or so, maybe an hour and a half, i don't remember.

Saturday afternoon was pretty relaxed. After the convocation Laura and I went home to the apartment to change and when Mom and Dad Harmon came we opened some presents, including an awesome clock which we promptly put up in the office. That evening a bunch of us hung out at our apartment watching the NBA playoffs and eating a little bit of pizza. Laura, Mom, and I went to Artic Circle and then went to the hotel to hang out a little more with family, make fun of people on TV, and say our goodbyes because Laura and I weren't going to be getting up very early to see everyone off.

It was great to see my grandpa and talk with him a little bit because I haven't seen him in a while. He's 82 now and hopefully he has 20 years left in him. anyway that was our weekend, it was exciting, it was fun, and it was crazy all at once. Such is life.