Labor Day Weekend 2012

I've checked with others (family members) on this. So, I'm not completely up in the night. It has seemed to me that the mood of the country (now granted my polling methods are a little suspect) has not been very “up” for a couple of years. I can't trace it all to the election of Barack Obama. But, it seems to coincide somewhat closely.

However, we did see a marked bounce in our mood after the RNC. Especially, we all noticed what a nice Labor Day weekend we all had.

We went out with the Youngs on Friday night. We ate at Costa Vida (yummy tres leches) and then went to our theater to see Saints and Soldiers, Airborne Creed. Not as good as the first one. Had lots of story items that were unnecessary or went unused. The French girl didn't look very French and while her spoken French sounded good to me, she did not attempt to affect a French accent while speaking English. Most of the American actors (probably largely LDS) all had the same look, except Corbin Allred, a very good actor. The director relied on the wearing of a beret to indicate that the player was French. The main players traipse out in the middle of an open field, etc. Like I said not as good as the first. But, still.... WAY better than Twilight.

Saturday, I got a lot of things done around the house, catching up from our vacation. We had the annual High Priest steak fry that evening. The weather threatened to be unfriendly all day and when our thing started it was quite windy. But, it calmed down and we were fine. We had some people come out that we have never seen before. So, for that reason alone it was a success. But, the food was also VERY good. The steaks Kyle bought for us at the Main Street Meat Market looked suspect in the packaging (it was just the color.) But, they were very tender and very tasty. The crowd was lots of fun and amiable. A good time was had by all.

Monday we all went to Leslie's for the end of the Summer family get together. All seemed to be in a great mood and getting along well and again the food was very good. A fitting end to a very nice Summer.