Visitors

Over the weekend, we had some Salt Lake visitors. Kurt and Kim came out to visit us for a few days and for the most part, we had an interesting time. I got off work for a day and a half, which was great, especially since the weather was so nice and we spent most of our time walking around outside. Previously on this blog I’ve said that I am not a good host, which is true, but I do think it’s pretty fun to take people around to the monuments and the local places that we love to show them what Chris and I like to do, probably because I don’t like the responsibility of making sure someone has a good time at my house and when we go out, it’s the responsibility of the restaurant or monument to make sure we all have a good time. We did have a couple of events at our house, like the official mullet cutting (this will be the next blog post, so stay tuned), so being at home wasn’t quite as stressful as usual.
Anyway, to move on from my tangent of responsibility, we were able to take Kurt and Kim to the usual DC stuff. We went to the monuments at night, which I think is a little better than seeing them during the day because everything is all lit up and beautiful and it was a very pleasant night. We also went to the portrait gallery by the Verizon center, which is my favorite Smithsonian museum. There are so many amazing pictures and relics there that you could spend almost all day there and not get bored. After the portrait gallery, we did desert our friend to go to the Caps game which they couldn’t get tickets too. They went to the Nationals game instead and we hope that they had a good time at that (but I still feel a little guilty about leaving them alone so that we could go to a game, even if they do say they had a good time). The last day they were here, we went to the zoo, which was all great except that there are some evil slushies by the zoo. Both of our friends started feeling ill after having a slushy from the 7 11 across the street from the zoo, which probably put a horrible slant on their entire visit (the slushy was mango something, the wild cherry seemed to be okay). Also, they missed their flight the next morning and had to wait a few hours until they could get on another flight. So, what with the bad hosting, abandoning them to go to the Caps game, the getting sick and the missing of the flight, I would have to say that we are the worst hosts ever and we’re probably lucky that we’re almost ready to go back to Salt Lake so that we can’t torture anyone else.