2008-03-03 Monday: Piers arrived 3rd March, Monday. I’ve taken a few days off and a few half days to spend as much time with him as possible. We had some troubles getting him here on United Airlines because of their ambiguous unaccompanied minor policy. Many phonecalls later and failed trip to the airport on Sunday the 2nd, and three schedule changes later, he arrived a day late, but not too much worse for wear. (We are using Delta next time). I picked him up Monday afternoon and since it was nearing rush hour decided to spend some time in Salt Lake. We ended up at the Gateway and grabbed a bite at the foodcourt and then saw “Be Kind, Please Rewind” which was actually a pretty nice little film.

2008-03-04 Tuesday: I worked a half day or so and then Jenivee, Piers, and I went to NOJHS to watch Shaylee play against THBell JHS. In the fourth quarter when NO was up 36 to 6, the coach started to put in the 4 7th graders on the team. So Shaylee had about 4 minutes of action and even sunk a foul shot for the first 7th grader point of the year! We all (Rylee & Shaylee) grabbed some Sams Club pizzas on way home and had pizza, then bed.

2008-03-05 Wednesday: I took day off and Piers and I made rounds of some stores, got him some shoes and pants, then played quite a bit of Wii bowling, baseball, and tennis. We grabbed dinner at Carl’s Jr where kids eat free on Wednesdays. Not sure that was really worth it, but it was fine. That evening we went to my work where I finished up some paperwork and helped Piers with his math homework. After, we watched “Underdog” on DVD from a Redbox and then it was bedtime.

2008-03-06 Thursday: Half day at work and then Piers and I spent afternoon playing Wii and Xbox. We went to my Dad’s for dinner (it was very yummy) with all the kids and stayed for a good while. My dad took some photos that hopefully we will get copies of. Unfortunately he took them after we had gorged ourselves on desert. Home, watched just a little TV, then bed.

2008-03-07 Friday: Spent some time getting some errands ran and prepping ski trip, then visited Jenivee at work for few minutes, then went to the Union Station in Ogden which was hosting some sort of Stone and Jewel event. We visited the Browning Arms museum and the Railroad Museum. We actually spent quite a bit of time there. We then went and got Shaylee and all the girl’s snowboard equip, went to Canyon Sports and picked up ski’s and a pass for Piers and me (but they forgot to actually give me the pass, long story). Then we dashed off to meet Damon and Justin at Florider at the new downtown center in Ogden. As I was driving away I noticed all I had was a receipt, no physical pass, and wondered if this was normal. Anyway, the Florider was AWESOME. A smidgen expensive at $20/hour but overall, worth it. Other than employees and probably a couple of their friends, we had the place to ourselves. It’s something like $200 to rent it by the hour, so maybe the employees are supposed to jump in so we don’t get too good a deal or something, since we didn’t rent the whole thing. But unfortunately, the employees and their friends are rather good, so even though there were five of us and five of them, it ended up being like we were 5 and they were 20 (their rides were typically, and easily, 4 or 5 times longer than ours which were usually only a few seconds long). This was not too annoying, but when our hour was up, they turned off the ride without a second to spare and kicked us out. So… maybe it was a little annoying on that note. But it was still a blast. We went to Costa Vida next door after and had some great food. The kids sucked down a few balloons and made munchkin voices for a little while, won some ice cream bars, and then we headed out. Home, bit of Wii/TV, bed.

2008-03-08 Saturday: Got up, breakfast, rounded up ski clothes, tried finding receipt for Canyon Sports to call them, finally found it safely tucked away in pocket in my jacket I was not going to take. It’s now 11am and I am frustrated we are maybe going to get a half day skiing, and not the better half. I call Canyon and they act like I am crazy, that I must have the pass. I tell them I’ll be there to pick up my pass, as the receipt is NOT all you need. You need the pass. I am now thoroughly frustrated as we now also have to stop by the shop again. We stop by, they say I must have it, I notice they have video, I ask them to please review to see if I really was handed the pass; 30 miutes later, the young woman helping me walks back out from the back office, makes no eye contact. I ask if she saw what happened, she said ‘Yep.’ Walked up the register, opened the pass drawer, handed me a pass, and said ‘Here you go.’ She didn’t seem too happy, so I just said, ‘Sorry for the confusion,’ and got on my way. I am fairly unhappy with the unfortunate experience as I just had to fight to get a discount day pass for $51 and it is now approaching 1:00pm and we still have good half hour of driving left. The adult non-discounted half day pass is also $51 so this has cost me way too much time and grief. Otherwise, Canyon Sports was great. So we eventually found our way to Snowbird after a few wrong turns trying to take a shortcut through South Weber, up Weber Canyon and across Trapper’s Loop. We got about 3 hours skiing in and for Piers and Shaylee, that was really plenty. I would have liked to try out more runs, but maybe next year. The snow is noticeably getting mushy this time of year, but I bet it was better higher up. All in all, we had a pretty good time. Home, dinner, Eli Stone, Wii, bed.

2008-03-09 Sunday: We watched the BBC version of Chronicles of Narnia during the day. We had planned on going to a Grizzlies’ IHL Hockey game at 4pm, but Piers sort of decided he didn’t really like watching games unless he could run around and cause trouble, as he put it. So we went to RedBox and got “Dragon Wars” to watch, grilled some steak, steamed asparagus, had caeser salad, and home made milk shakes. Then bedtime.

2008-03-10 Monday: Piers is spending his day with Grandpa Lester today.

2008-03-11 Tuesday:

2008-03-12 Wednesday:

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