#19: go to a corn maze

3 new blogs in one day?! What?!?! I must have nothing to do at 12:36 am on a Saturday night/Sunday morning. Hm. I went to work at a date night earlier tonight and I’ve been home for a couple hours playing on the internet…these blogs are apparently the last thing I thought of to do when I’m bored. Hah. Oh, I also apologize for all the bazillions of pictures posted on this blog that basically feature a snapshot of Eric and me in some random locale. We don’t have anyone else to take pictures for us. And there aren’t more of us to take pictures of. So this is what you get…lucky you!

Anyway, last night Eric and I went to the Cornbelly’s corn maze/fall festival/Halloween festival/whatever at Thanksgiving Point and had a really fun time. We did the “Phase B” corn maze there (aka the hard one that takes a long time) and got through it in about an hour. Yay we are awesome maze-doers. Maze-doers? What is the term? There probably isn’t one…but there should be.

After the maze we partook in some of the other activities, like doing a little hay-bale maze where you couldn’t make left turns, going on a hayride, eating a caramel apple, bouncing on a big inflatable pillow type thing, walking through a “haunted creature” (exactly what it sounds like) and a 3-D haunted house (it was for little kids but it was still pretty fun…and trippy), sitting in a giant rocking chair, trying to lasso small stationary cattle heads (no success on either of our parts), and being cold. It was fun! There was a haunted corn maze thing but we decided not to do that because to be honest…I don’t like things that stress me out. Haha. But yeah. We had a lot of fun.

#4: drive the alpine loop to see the fall colors

Well, we didn’t actually get to drive the whole loop since the guard station was open and we had neither cash nor check to pay the $5 or whatever it is to get a 3-day park pass, so we just drove up to the station. Fortunately, the fall colors were in fall swing on the way up to Sundance and Aspen Lodge, so we were still able to get a few good pictures.

#15: drive to payson lakes

Last Sunday between sessions of General Conference, Eric and I decided to brave the cold weather, hopped in the car, and drove the Nebo Loop.  Payson Lakes is a little less than halfway through the Nebo Loop.  We’d gone here together before we were married and really wanted to go back to sort of take a little trip down memory lane (not that long ago, I know). It snowed while we were there, and I was pretty ill-prepared for the weather. Poor Eric gave up his jacket so I wouldn’t freeze and sink like a little frozen statue to the bottom of the lake. How sweet of him. Here are a few pictures:

spending more time together

School started again. I’m not really sure what I’ve gotten myself into…hmm. Eric and I are both doing school and working a lot so we’ve barely gotten to see each other for the last 2 1/2 weeks since school started. So we’re always looking for ways to spend a little more time together whenever we can. Over the last few years, we’ve found that if we write down a list of things we want to do in a certain period of time, we are more likely to actually do them because we can see them. So we decided to come up with a list of 40 things we can do together over the next school year that are within a 45-minute drive of our apartment. We’re really looking forward to being able to spend more time together (besides sitting next to each other on the couch doing homework on our computers or reading text books) since it will actually be planned. Yay!

So without further ado, here’s the list:

1. Go ice skating at the Seven Peaks ice arena

2. Go play miniature golf

3. Feed the ducks at the BYU botany pond

4. Drive the Alpine Loop to see the fall colors

5. Ride the chair lift at Sundance (before it snows…)

6. Eat at La Carreta Peruvian restaurant

7. Go to a BYU football game

8. Hike the Y

9. Go to a play

10. See the Utah Symphony Orchestra

11. Build a snowman

12. Make a cheesy vodka pasta sauce

13. Go to the Provo Farmer’s Market

14. Go to a concert

15. Drive to Payson Lakes

16. Go snowshoeing

17. Go to the Oquirrh Mountain temple

18. Carve pumpkins for Halloween

19. Go to a corn maze

20. Visit the Krishna temple

21. Go indoor rock climbing at the Quarry

22. Go to Red Iguana Mexican restaurant

23. Go snow tubing or sledding

24. Go to a Utah Jazz game

25. Do a puzzle on our coffee table

26. Go to a BYU basketball game

27. Read up on Provo candidates and vote in the general election on Nov. 3

28. Print out photos and hang up the rest of our photo frames

29. Have a picnic

30. Ride bikes on the Provo River Trail

31. Volunteer with the Utah Humane Society

32. Go see Christmas lights at Temple Square

33. See a film at the Sundance Film Festival

34. Go to the Draper temple

35. Go to the haunted forest or a haunted house

36. Celebrate Oktoberfest

37. Go see an exhibit at the BYU Museum of Art

38. Possibly paint the apartment

39. Start preparing a food storage and write up an emergency plan

40. Make sushi

We’ll cross these off the list as we do them, and I’ll be writing blogs with pictures every time we accomplish one of these little goals – that way there’s some accountability and we’ll actually do them. We’re looking forward to it!