Summer Utah trip, day 2: Here we are now, entertain us
by HML
The cousin Things were eager to celebrate the Gimlet’s impending birthday (even if he is a grownup, any excuse for a party works), so despite reaching our final destination at midnight, we made sure we were up bright and early for a chocolate cake breakfast.
After the party, we spent a rather frustrating morning working on the wireless problem, where we were able to get online just long enough to learn that yes, the big NA2 announcement I’d been waiting for had happened the previous day, and there was no way to update my web site. Around the same time, Thing One presented an arm swollen to nearly twice its size, a victim of the valley’s current mosquito plague. One would think that the smoke from the brush fires would keep the bugs away, but no.
Later that afternoon, we left the kids with their cousins and grandparents and drove to Salt Lake City for the Gloria Film Festival’s opening reception. It was a nice little group of filmmakers, most of whom had participated in the filmmaking challenge which would be showing later that evening. Fun to finally put some faces to names. I learned that the woman in charge of the screenplay competition, a big Jane Austen fan, had hoped to meet me, but illness prevented her attending the reception. Better luck Friday!
On our return drive, Sardine Canyon was dotted with little rings of fire. Earlier in the day, the entire hillside had been full of smoke (fortunately blowing away from the highway). Now the fires seemed to be burning themselves out.
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August 17th, 2006 18:04
I learned that the woman in charge of the screenplay competition, a big Jane Austen fan
*GASP!*
This MUST bode well!!!!
August 17th, 2006 20:54
Suddenly my finalist status made sense.