Nail Be Gone

Have you ever had one of those moments where you go to a sporting event only to be a onlooker/cheerleader but somehow keep on getting pulled into the game? Yesterday my ward had a pick-up game of soccer and invited anyone that wanted to come, I don't play soccer but four of my roommates were going to play and I thought that it would be fun to go and support them (you know something to get me out of the house). It was a beautiful day with the sun-shining and I was enjoying myself but for some reason the ball kept on being attracted to me...I would say that it came flying at me at least 5 times!

The last time is what really did it for me though, I was looking at something on my phone when I looked up and saw the ball flying towards my face, I put my hands up to block the ball. The ball flipped up and went behind me, I suddenly noticed a little of tingling on my hand, I looked down and noticed that a nail was missing from my left hand! I started looking around trying to find it when Josh (from my ward) pointed it out to me 10-15 feet from where I was sitting, he said that he saw it flip from my hand and land there.

And that is how I got "injured" without even playing the game :)

REAL-Salt Lake

So I finally made it to my first soccer game. Several weeks ago I got a forwarded e-mail from Nathan asking if anyone was interested in handing out fliers at a REAL soccer game the following weekend in Salt Lake. Nathan and e-mailed both Kyle and I so I called Kyle to ask him if he was interested. He said he was and suggested that we make it into a double date (yeah...NOT!). So I was put in charge of e-mailing the guy and Kyle was supposed to find the dates.

I got confirmation from the guy that we were able to come and then called Kyle back. He had found a girl and a guy, but the guy asked if he could bring his friend with him. Saturday afternoon came and the girl that was supposed to be coming was sick and couldn't come so another friend of Kyle's was going to come. So in the beginning it was supposed to be me, another girl and two guys, in the end it was me and four guys!

We got there and were told what we were supposed to do---basically hand out fliers to everyone about this program where you can order food from your cell phone and then they will deliver it to you for a fee at the games. Kyle and I were able to quickly hand ours out. After we were done all we had to do was pick a place and order some food and have it delivered to us.

One of Kyle's friends "stole" my camera and by the end of the night I had over 200 pictures! You are lucky that I edited and only put a few :D

CD1 - After Dinner Drinks

I feel so naughty saying that we had drinks after dinner, it almost sounds like it was something alcoholic or something, but it wasn't (though I suppose it could have been). After dinner we went to some spot that was very popular with the tourists, there were lots of bars (advertising $.50, $1, $2, etc. beer all day), restaurants, and little shops.

There were many options and it took us a bit to decide what we wanted but I believe that I ended up going with some kind of smoothie.

This restaurant was across the street, it made me laugh.

After we finished our drinks we were given some time to go and explore the streets. We walked past this place where these guys were just sitting with their feet in a tank of fish. I'm not sure what kind of fish they were but we thought it was really strange.

A close up of their feet.

Our group...we were really lucky that it ended up not being a huge group and that they knew some English so we weren't lost the entire time.

As we were sitting waiting for our drinks and when we had our drinks I kept on hearing screams from below us, I couldn't figure out what was going on. When we finally went back downstairs I looked in the restaurant below us and realized that they had the World Cup on, as we wandered down the street we found that it was on in every restaurant and then at the end of the street they had two huge screens on either side and there were crowds of people watching. I saw one shop owner was in the middle of the street with one eye on the game and the other eye on his store.