Last week, I was in Utah, and it was great. Nice pleasant weather, some neat things to see and do, and staying with lots of awesome people.

For those who are curious, here are some highlights from the week:

(these are in no particular order by the way)

- I have now experienced bubble tea and the mysterious pearls that adorn the beverage. I shall be getting a blender or smoothie maker at some point to continue experiencing this mystery thing.

- Went bowling (yay)! Watched all of the lanes crash (wow)! Realised all but mine return when they came back on (boo)! I maintain it wasn't my fault even if my experience with electronics usually ends that way.

- A group went hiking up the private mountain in our backyard. Oh yes. That happened. Someone got ill up top due to altitude, so hordes of rescue trucks ascended the mountain. One tipped over so the hiking gang (those not ill) returned the favour and uprighted the van again.

- In-n-out Burger. Those are some shiny burgers.

- Subs in the US are more delicious than the subs at home.

- Loads of cards got drawn up for a random card game. I don't like using 'random' as a description but when you honestly don't know what's coming out of the card pile, what the effect will be, or how everyone will interpret the card, where a points system both exists and doesn't exist, 'random' I feel is appropriate. And it was magnificent. And not just because I was drunk by about halfway through.

- Raspberry rum is nice. We don't do anything nearly as classy and I wish I'd been able to bring it back with me.

- Loads of walking around in downtown Utah. Buildings are much taller over there with much more frequency than here.

- The general architecture of the buildings and houses there was stunning to see. By day 3 I was scouring the scenery as we drove places, seeing if I could find terraced houses since most houses were stand-alone and so very spaced out. Such strange new experiences! Though I was told the spacing, and the crazy Sims-like houses weren't common to the US.

- Our house had a hot-tub. I only experienced it once, same night as the card game. I was fully-clothed because I didn't want to expose the horrors of flesh to everyone else in the tub.

- We ordered a giant gummy-worm! By the time it got to us it wasn't a worm but melted goo, and after trying to give it a solid form it just became impossible-to-break-into goo.

- I introduced the group to fruit pastilles. They are nice if you haven't tried them yet.

- Journey in: 26 hours. Journey out: 26 hours. I don't recommend that, for what its worth.


It was a lot of fun. I do my comics on A6 card, but that got merged into the memo cards for the card game so I haven't been able to draw any yet. I have, however, made many notes, and those will get drawn up over the next couple weeks and you'll be further exposed to the week I had. As well as maybe caricatures of people from the holiday.

This might be after I've recovered from the 20 hours of catch-up sleep I got last night/this morning though.

Peace guys~!