car troubles

we had a crazy conference weekend to say the least. it started friday afternoon. i left work early so that we could make up to chris' cousins {second} wedding up in bountiful, ut. we made it in time to enjoy some mediocre wedding dinner food {the chicken courdon bleu, mashed potatoes, steamed frozen veggies...etc. bleh} and watch the wedding video--with songs like justin timberlake's sexy back included. afterward we went to the hotel where chris' family was staying and were planning on going swimming with the kids before heading to grandma brinkerhoffs to stay the night. chris went down to the car to get our bags and came up empty handed. i of course was not fooled by this. he plays jokes all the time on me and so i wasn't falling for this one. "uh, i forgot to grab the suitcase with our clothes in it." from the look in his eye i could tell he was serious. GREAT. now what? i was still wearing my dress from the wedding. i really didn't want to hand out with his family in my church clothes. i really didn't want to stay up without my clothes, so we decided to drive home. the next morning we drove back to bountiful. i dropped chris off at the salt lake library for an MCAT study session with his tutor. back at the hotel, we waited until it was time to pick chris up at noon. after that we met up with the rest of the thacker clan for lunch and then to a park for a game of baseball. we had two teams of five and my team {brittney, damen, mckaye, myself, davis and a little neighborhood kid} won! chris and bruce had tickets to the priesthood session of conference so we had to rush back to the hotel so they could head over to the conference center. the females and boys too young to go hung out at the hotel. the kids went swimming and LeeAnn and i {i would have gone swimming but chris took the car that had our suits in it} watched the final four NCAA basketball games. when they got back around 8:30, we ordered pizza for the younger kids and the adults went to red lobster for dinner. it was really good and it makes me wish that crab wasn't so dang expensive! on the way back to the hotel the alternator in the green saturn went out. his car wouldn't start and we had no way home. we couldn't really stay with his family in the hotel room because there were already nine of them with only three beds and we didn't really want to rent a room because the only ones left were $99! chris told me to call my grandparents. but it was almost midnight and i knew they were long asleep. so to alleviate the cramped hotel room we took damen with us and drove one of the thacker's cars back to provo--again--and had to drive back to bountiful the next morning so we could fix the saturn. the next morning around noon and $200 later we had a running saturn and were on our way back to provo to listen to our first and last session of april conference. looks like we're gonna have to find some time this week to hear the rest!