Yesterday for Family Home Evening, we went to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point.  There was a decent sized group of us that went, but Candice got us a discount on the tickets.  It was me, my parents, the whole Badger clan, and of course, the lovely Miss Chultz.  I was pretty excited for it because I heard we could rent segways and ride them around, which would've been pretty fun, I thought.  We then saw that to rent one would be $20 and that just wasn't worth it to me, so we used what God gave us and walked around the beautiful gardens to appreciate scenery more fully.

We saw many great things while we were there:

an owl with her babies...

colorful fish...

people getting their wedding photos...

and a real "life" bunny!

So, as you can see, it was a very eventful time.  Of course we saw a variety of flowers along with these many other great sites!  After seeing so many wedding and baptism pictures being professionally taken, we began to mimik their actions and take some "professional" pictures of our own.

And a Langston family outing wouldn't be complete without some tears. Even thouh Dan and Dave weren't there to cause them, the tears still came!

All in all, it was a great evening with plenty of eye candy and nostril sweets to last me a week! 

Great Job!

Another Ride...

After having my Mazda RX-8 (RoXy) for a couple months and spending too much money on fuel to run that honey of a ride, I decided I needed something smaller and more fuel efficient.  I started just browsing, just for fun, to see what some of my options were.  I still wanted to stay with a sporty car because I'm not ready to jump to sedan status just yet.  I found a nice little Honda at a used car dealer in Orem and test drove it.  The first thing I noticed was that it wasn't as smooth as RoXy and wasn't as cool and sporty as her, so I took it back, thanked the man and continued on my quest.  I drove other cars like a Nissan 350z, BMW Z3, and was checking out the Honda S2000.  The nissan I drove was too trashy for the price they were asking, I couldn't sit up straight in the BMW and my friend Dustyn has an S2000 and I didn't want to copy him.  After much thought and studying on that Honda Civic I had previously test drove, I came to the conclusion that it was what I wanted. 

I made the sad trip to the dealer on a Monday afternoon to trade in my beautiful gas guzzler, and of course I had traction control off so I could enjoy the rear-wheel drive one last time!  After signing all the papers and doing all that time consuming stuff, I got the keys to my new 2002 Honda Civic Si!  It gets 30+ MPG, which is a big difference from RoXy's 17-20 MPG.

Sure, it's not as sporty and it doesn't catch eyes left and right, but it sure saves me a little bit of money on fuel and I think I'll be able to find someone that can fix a 4-cylinder motor easier and cheaper than someone to fix a rotary motor.  I feel that all in all it was a good trade, even though at first I thought it looked like a mini minivan.  Chelsey didn't like me saying that since she loves the car, so I've been able to look past the shape and enjoy the ride!

If I get a tan over the summer and can manage to grow some dirt on my upper lip, maybe I'll put some money in the car to make it look like this:

(Google Image)

(Google Image)

Until then I'll just drive what I have and enjoy it none the less. 

 

If you have any good ideas for a name for the car, let me know! Thanks!