A Trip back home

Quinn was sweet enough to drive all the way to Colorado in July with me to attend one of my old choir and track buddies wedding. My highschool friends are finally starting to get married, they all thought I was CRAZY when I tied the knot two years ago, now they are finally seeing the light! I have known booth the bride and groom since elementary school, so it was great to see them get hitched! Plus, Quinn and I were able to visit my parents and hang out with the younger siblings.

The wedding ended up being like a high school reuion of sorts. It was so weird to see all the people that I grew up with again (it has been almost 5 years). A lot of the people that were in Summit Singers (a select choir in my high school) including the bride and groom were at the wedding. We decided to sing a little song for the newley weds, for old time sake. It tunred out, that we had our pianist, our choir teacher, several tenors and bases, 2 sopranos, and me...the lone alto. Just enough to pull off an impromptu performance.

Our Boston Photo Album

Boston

In June Quinn and I were able to go to Boston... on the compnay dollar (at least my part of the trip was). Tandem Labs (my current employer) had a tradeshow in Boston that I put together; so of course, I had to go. I thought to myself, why not turn a business trip into a vacation and invite Quinn along!! We had a awesome time sleeping in a 5 star hotel, eating fresh seafood, and enjoying the sites!






Quinn was in Heaven all morning (it happened to be 10am when we got there). Nothing like award winning ribs for breakfast!

Bunker Hill Cemetary...I felt weird smiling around a bunch of dead folk!

You can't go to Boston without visiting historic Fenway!! I also must say...Flirting is sooo underrated, how else are you supossed to get 10th row seats when you were supossed to be sitting in nosebleed?

A Fenway way park must...Sweet Caroline!

No ballgame is complete without this song.

Our final destination after our 20 mile bike ride around Nantuckett Island. And yes...we were SOO sore the next day!

Just as the ferry was leaving Nantuckett to take us back, a dense fog rolled in. It made the whole island look like a ghost town and the temp. drop about 40 degrees!!

We loved Boston, I would move there for the Gelatto and Canaloi (italian pastry that I may have been OBSESSED with!) We can't wait to go back again!

Capital Reef

The last weekend in May, my cousin Devin came homw from his mission, so Quinn and I decided to head down to Richfield to listen to him speak on Sunday. Since we were already driving part way Quinn and I decided to venture a little farther south and pay a visit to Capital Reef National Park. We had driven through many-a-time on our way to Lake Powell, but had never actually stopped and stayed.

We learned a couple valuable lessons on our dirve down to Capital Reef...
1. You will NEVER get on the road until at least 1 hour after you wanted to
2. Never assume that just becuase you believe there will be open camp sites, that it will actually happen (whose stupid idea was it to only have 1 campgound in the whole park anayway!!)
3. When a campground says it is full...it really is (now matter how long you drive around with your parking lights on at 2 a.m., you cannot blind people out of their camp sites)

We ended up sleeping in a R.V. park across from a gas station for $25 a night (they did not have seperate pricing, we paid for elecricity and poop dumping when we only there for a total of 6 hours(including sleep time)!!

That day however, we managed to go on an AMAZING hike that overlooked the entire park.

A cute little arch I found on the way up to the top!

The view from the top, thankfully there was another couple up there to take our picture (we did not see ANYONE the whole 5 miles up and at the very top...there they were!)

Here is a video of the view that we had from the top of the hike...it was amazing!

Kalai Spring BBQ

Quinn and I decided that we wanted to celebrate the spring with a little BBQ party and our house. Leave it to Quinn to book Kalai to play a backyard concert for our humble BBQ. Since Quinn stepped it up with the entertainment, I felt it necessary to step it up with the food. After a few of our infamous planning sessions, our small BBQ turned into a PARTY! We sent out formal invites, cooked 25 pounds of pork for sandwiches, and topped it off with a chocolate fountain! We had a great time and hope to make it an annual event.

What were the Millet's up to in May??

I apologize that I have dropped off the blogging planet the last month. The Millet's have been quite busy and it has left me little time to report on our life's activities! In the early part of May our good friend Bryan Hurd invited us and few other friends (including newly married Tyler and Rachel Buzzwell) to a Real Salt Lake Game. Everyone knows that the probability of actually catching one of the shirts that is blasted out of those high powered guns is very low. Well, it must have been Quinn's lucky day. (This is not the "actual" catch, but a very convincing re-enactment. We recieved some interesting looks from the crowd when Quinn got this excited twice!) Quinn almost fell down the bleachers to catch the shirt, but hey at least HE caught it.

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