Pumpkin and Spice

I started my morning with something new (to me) that I found at Whole Foods- Fage 2% yogurt with dippin' sauce. I'm sure that's not the actual product name but it's a pretty accurate description. It's about a half-cup or so of plain 2% Fage, and about a tablespoon or so of "sauce"- in the case of the ones I bought, cherry and strawberry. They also had a honey one, but I only got two, just in case I didn't care for it. I usually buy the fat free Fage, and while it is delicious, the 2% was brilliant! It was creamy and rich and tangy. Yum! The sauce was jam-like and just sweet enough to compliment the tartness of the yogurt. It was so so soooo good. I really wish I'd got more of them- I'll have to add them to the shopping list for my next trip to Whole Foods! You can also see the Quaker Oatmeal Squares I had with it in the background.

Fortified with yogurt and Oatmeal Squares, I set to the daunting task of figuring out how to work the iHome alarm clock Sissy brought. There was no instruction book, and she couldn't figure out how to work it. I looked up the info booklet online, and figured out everything except why my iPod wouldn't play in it. After more investigation, it turns out that we don't have the right adaptor for it. The adaptor is that funny black plastic thing that comes in the box with your iPod, as it happens. I never knew that! I wondered what that thing was for. I called Kyle and he promised to send it.

Hope you all survived Black Friday! Sissy and I stayed far away from stores and instead went out to see Australia. While we were out, we stopped by the Park City Olympic Welcome Pavilion and wandered around. As you may remember, the 2002 were held in Salt Lake City. Park City (about 20-30min from SLC) was the host for the mountain-based events (skiing events, snowboarding, bobsledding, &c.) There's still a lot of "residual" from the Olympics, including the welcome pavilion and the Olympic Park (which is where the bobsledding/luge/speedskating took place.)

Today, I was off again, but Sissy worked. I took it as an oppertunity to go see Twilight, which Sissy didn't want to see. After watching angsty teens covort with equally angsty vampires, I walked (uphill) to Wal-mart (bleh) to get winter clothes for Kyle. He's coming up for Christmas, but doesn't have any ski clothes (no surprise, as we live in Florida.) I managed to find him a parka, snow pants and ski gloves for under $50. Not too shabby, eh? Next I walked to Whole Foods (there was a lot of walking today!)

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday (today? I'm still up... but I guess it's technically no longer Thanksgiving...)

Since the ski season hasn't officially started, the resort was closed on Thanksgiving. Our busy day was the day before, making pies for orders. Sissy and I had been trying to find a restaurant in town that was doing a reasonably priced Thanksgiving dinner (Park City has a lot of pricy restaurants... but not many that are good for girls on a budget!) However, one of our co-workers took pity on us and invited us to Thanksgiving dinner. There were nine of us- Sissy, me, our co-worker, her hubby and two kids, and another couple and their daughter. We were a little afraid that it'd be weird and uncomfortable celebrating a family-centric holiday with strangers, but everyone was so friendly and warm, that it didn't take long before we felt like we belonged just as much as everyone else.

I had a very early morning today, and since I was determined to sleep in as much as possible, I needed a quick breakfast. Good thing I bought those Cliff Bars- the Mint Chocolate one was perfect with my coffee! It was just what I needed to get me going.

Wanna guess what I did at work today?...