I left Cedar City three weeks ago, and yet in many ways it feels more like three months. Before all the details lose their shining clarity in my mind, here’s a final post of some of the things I miss most about that lovely place:
1. Spotting rainbow clouds in the sky.
2. Eating candy bars under the pretense that they’re nutritionally-sound snacks.
3. Trying not to be scared by the giant tornado-haired fairy woman outside the Randall L. Jones Theatre. (She haunts me in my sleep, still. The other night I dreamed she was chasing me with a stick made of eyeballs, and then she turned into an invisible dragon AND I DIDN’T KNOW WHERE SHE WAS ANYMORE.)
4. Taking sneaky ninja photos of old women in Big Bird t-shirts and sneakers casually knitting next to William Shakespeare.
5. Trying to find one single person in the whole city who had actually ordered the menudo at Roberto’s, and failing.
6. Building couchforts with Sam in which to eat chocolate and watch Harry Potter movies (as well as the occasional Crash Course World History episode).
7. Playing Cornhole into the witching hours with new friends, then moping into the witching hours with new friends about how someone stole the Cornhole boards, and then playing Cornhole with brand new boards into the witching hours with new friends (Chris, you are a legend for getting those new boards made).
8. Friends. Wonderful friends.
9. Discovering – two and a half years after I first bought it – that my dress has pockets, and then demanding that someone take a photo as proof. You know, just in case the pockets were magical circumstantial pockets and didn’t exist (again?) the next morning.
9 1/2. Photobombing friends.
10. Did I mention friends? Hi Ezra! Hi!
11. Finding out that it’s impossible to look truly sultry and sophisticated when the shot in your hand is radioactively bright pink (and passionfruit-flavoured).
12. And, last but not least, the gorgeous, stunning, gorgeous landscape of Utah. (Before long, I reckon I’ll be missing the heat with a desperate passion, too.)
You’re probably the only blogger whose posts featuring pictures of skeezy bars and shots don’t make me shift my eyebrows a smidge too hard.
Cornhole! We want to build some boards, but I guess it’ll have to wait until next year, since the snow will probably be flying and day now.
I want a Big Bird t shirt:)
*any
Well that’s a nice little compliment, Emma. I’m not usually one for skeezy bars (and the alcohol laws mean this one really wasn’t too bad; most nights, there weren’t even that many people there and we just played pool) or shots myself, so I understand the eyebrow-twitching.
Snow? SNOW? NO. I refuse. I didn’t hear that. No.
What is corn hole?
Click on the link above, lazybones!
Silly me … I didn’t see the link!
Utah is so breathtakingly stunning, it’s a wonder anyone actually leaves (I’m already planning my next trip out there in the spring).
Just so you know, that woman knitting next to Shakespeare is Future Me. See, in the year 2059, I put the finishing touches on my time machine and travel back to Utah 2012 to reminisce about my summer there. Did you by chance photograph a police box nearby?
Oh, so that was *your* police box? I held a stake-out for a full 36 hours hoping to catch a glimpse of David Tennant, but to no avail. At least now I know that he wasn’t hiding from me; he just wasn’t there.
I reckon Future You would wear nicer shoes, though.
That first pic is so cool!
I love that you played corn hole – that is the big tailgating game we play here. Also, dresses with pockets rock.
For some reason, I still feel like giggling every time I hear the word “cornhole”. It sounds vaguely naughty/inappropriate to me, but I have no idea why.
dresses with pockets are my favorite! i wore one to a wedding recently and couldn’t get enough
gosh, i miss home sometimes too. i’m headed back next week for a whole week. the first time since Christmas – so exciting!
Did you stash extra slices of wedding cake in the pockets? That’s clearly the point of taking a dress with pockets to a wedding.
Where is home for you? I miss my home a little bit too, I must say.
I so want a Big Bird shirt.
Do you know what’s BEST…. is that your posts always pop up when I have juuuuust sat down to my lunch “break” – Misty sound asleep, yummy lunch and I can read all about your wonderful adventures
I also would like a dress with pockets. Genius.
Aw, that’s lovely! Thanks Lou. Except unless you start having lunch a few hours earlier each day, I think that might change soon. But hey, maybe they’ll pop up in time for breakfast at some point!
How about a Big Bird dress with pockets? ALL THE THINGS.
Are you getting any sleep? You seem to be cramming in so much! Could someone please buy the old lady in the big bird sweat with the teenage sneakers a new outfit – I know, she needs one of those ‘makeovers’ from a stylist to the stars. I think there’s actually a lot of nutrition in that ‘health’ bar xx
Well, there was a lot of calcium (supposedly) in the Luna bar, so that’s how I justified eating so many of them. Strong bones, wheeeee! Sleep? Bah, I’ve never been any good at sleeping. Adventures are better anyway.
Haha wow this seems like so much fun! LOL have to look sultry but it holding a bright pink shot
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Hehe I bet that Big Bird tee knitting woman has a really interesting story! I wonder if she was telling it to William S. there!
I would have liked to shrink her down and keep her in my pocket for always.
FUUUUUUN. I love your lists. Any lists that you blog about. Is that a weird compliment? I apologise but I mean it sincerely HAHA. Your nights out just reminds me of the fact that it’s been aaaaaages since I’ve gone out and hung loose like that. I can’t wait for this dangnabbit uni days to be over. And LOL at the couchfort. You peeps sure know how to get WILD
Teehee, thanks Win-man! I actually really like hearing that; the list-type posts are fun to write, so I’m glad someone else enjoys them too
Oh yeah, wild couchfort nights! So much craziness! I wish I’d been able to convince everyone to let me turn the whole place into a mazefort with the furniture. That would’ve been best.
P.S. There is definitely something to be said for the Real World, but at the same time I really encourage you to enjoy the responsibility-less wonders of Uni Days!
That last photo is magnificent. Want the luna bar. Need a couchfort. Love seeing you so happy with all the utah friends
Thank you Johanna! That last photo is a sneak peak of the other hiking post I’ll get around to writing eventually. So stunning!
That shot you got of the lady knitting in her big bird shirt… brilliant! Seriously, I love it. I would most definitely try to get a ninja shot if I saw someone like her too, haha!
Ninja shots are best.
Looks like massive fun! That radioactive drink though – was it dangerous?
Not at all; it was delicious and filled with laughter.
puhahahaha that bird shirt lady deal is too funny and random
And that is incredible! I’ve never seen rainbow spotted clouds and wasn’t even aware that it’d be possible! Ps: that pocket thing totally happened to me once–I guess sometimes they’re just camouflaged! Or we’re silly like that.
I just found pockets in my pyjama pants too. Pockets everywhere.
Rainbow clouds and fairy wings! I want that fairy in my front yard … although perhaps with more substantial wings.
(P.S. I must respectfully request that you stop posting photos of the scenery and landscape until such time as I am able to drop everything and fly over …
)
Uh oh. There’s a post coming up that may well crumble your last shred of resistance. (I have one more Utah post, you see, which isn’t specifically from Cedar.) Unfortunately, I respectfully will be posting it. I promised my mother, you see.
And that shot is so tantalizing. Cheezyk … Utah is the most wondrous state for landscape. I’ll never forget it.
I cannot wait to visit my bff in Utah, it truly looks stunning! That rainbow cloud is a dream. Butterflies and happiness, sunshine sparkles xo
I’d never seen a rainbow cloud before; it made my heart sing. I wish you could’ve come while I was there! Hiking with you would have been bliss.
Oh i would miss Cedar City too
If i had so much fun and with good food and people hehe ~ hope i get there soon!
The photo of the lady with the Big Bird top made me LOL.
Beautiful scenery. Really want to go hiking in Utah now! (not even kidding)
You shouldn’t be kidding. It’s breath-taking, and I have one more post on that subject that may well add fuel to your hiking fire.
The rainbow cloud, and that landscape – how magnificent! It certainly sounds as though you’ve left your heart in Cedar City…
I think I’m leaving my heart everywhere, in all honesty. It’s been a very traumatic travel experience.
(My heart is most certainly at home here in Missouri, too.)
Rainbow cloud! I’ve never seen one before!
Great memories here Hannah
Quite literally burst into laughter when Genghis Khan met whim and fancy… you are too much, woman.
You are seeing more of my country than I have! Though I fully admit to stopping in KC for some of their delicious bbq
Your comment fills me with glee; thank you, Yasmeen! It’s funny how often I’ve been told by Americans that I’ve seen more of their country than them! But who knows, maybe you’ve seen more of Australia than me?
BBQ is actually the one thing I haven’t really had here!
Old ladies can wear what they want, say what they want…. Perhaps she was making an early political statement about Big Bird? I love the rainbow clouds, and that last photo is such gorgeous country. That pink drink looks positively toxic!
I still have to write the post to which that last photo belongs! The shot was passionfruit-y and delicious.
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