Scheels

We like to take trips. Sometimes those trips end us up in Utah. We used to go more often when Michael had a brother living there. Now we don't go so much.

I had a friend get married, Michael needed new shoes, and I needed a trip before we settled into the upcoming semester. So off we went.

We got the chance to see some old friends from Tennessee. Mandy and I were really good friends in high school and have slowly drifted as time's gone by. That seems to happen a lot to me lately. It's hard being friends long distance. Mandy lives about 5 minutes from where the reception that we were going to was. So I invited myself over and got to spend some time with her. She has a little boy, Weston, who's only a couple months older than Ivan. They played great together! We also got to see Spencer, who I hadn't seen since 2009. He and his wife have a little girl that's only a month or two younger than Charlotte. Crazy how time flies.

Ivan and Weston playing. Mandy hung some balloons from the ceiling and they were the bad guys the kids had to shoot. She had these really cool disc guns. They were battery powered and used forced air to push little foam discs out. Ivan loved it! (hint hint Nana and Papa:)

After we spent some time at the reception we went to Scheels. It's this huge sporting goods store that has anything related to any kind of sport pretty much ever invented.

There was an archway leading into the store that was made out of an aquarium. 

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Of course they had a Ferris wheel in there?

They also had these random photo booth things that you could take your picture in. We almost couldn't get Ivan to leave this one!

Ha ha! P.U.

And of course a bear. I promise Charlotte was there with us. I just couldn't find any pictures of her. Weird.