Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Game Night: Liebrary

Friday morning I got a text from the PizzaPieCafe that offered a coupon for the new Express location on Freedom next to Yozone. Buy one pizza get one free. Perfect! All I needed was a reason to buy two pizza's. So I texted a lot my friends in Provo who I still have numbers for and about eight of them could make it. I went to get the pizza's (which was an adventure in and of itself, what did I expect in a college town for $2.50 a pizza). Let everyone know they could come over, and Liebrary soon entered my life.



My dear friend, and former roommate, Genevieve brought it along with her. Liebrary is pretty much like Balderdash. One person reads the title of a book and the author, then everyone else is supposed to write down the most convincing lie of what the first line to that book would be. The first person reads aloud everyone's first lines and the real first line of the book. Then you try to guess the real first line. Hilarity ensues. According to the rules the person who is it is supposed to read aloud the plot as well, but we tried that once and decided its way more fun to not know what the book is about.

These kind of games are super fun whether or not you know everyone else very well. I don't do so well with them, and the last three rounds I played all I could think about was baking cookies, so I did while everyone else finished the game. (Typical Becca.)

Once Liebrary was over I still wanted to play games, so we played a game called Signs which doesn't require anything other than yourself (those are sometimes the best games). Maybe if you come to my next game night I'll teach you how to play!

Monday, January 10, 2011

Eating Out: Carrabba's

After our looong drive up to Provo, my dad, Robert and I were all ready for food that didn't taste like we were on a road trip (no fast food) so we ended up at Carrabba's. If you've never eaten there, you are missing out. If you have been there before, why did you not tell me about this place?!
(I don't know where this is, but it's cheerier than the snow covered restaurant we went to)

Here's the break down: (Oh how I wish I had taken pictures of the food...)
We ordered Risotto Poppers for an appetizer (we were starving)
They give you bread with a yummy olive oil and herb dip
I got the soup of the day and I think the men got salads...(tehe)
THEN our food came...
Robert ordered the Chicken Bryan (with goat cheese, yummy!), which the waiter said was amazing and he was right.
Dad ordered the Penne Franco with Shrimp. It has artichoke hearts, which is usually the deciding factor (I <3 me some artichoke hearts)
BUT they had Pollo Rosa Maria (Stuffed with fontina and prosciutto, topped with mushrooms and a basil lemon butter sauce) DELICIOUS. Seriously.
We all tried each others dishes and exclaimed about how good everything was. I think mine was the best of the dishes.
If we weren't SO full of delicious food I probably would have asked my dad to get us dessert, next time for sure!

So for your future adventures Carrabba's would be a wonderful date. I would be super impressed if a boy took me there. It's on the pricey side, so I would refrain from going there a lot. It's definitely a special occasion place. Like when your parents are in town and they will pay for you! Buon appetito!

Sunday, January 9, 2011

New Adventures

I'm back in Provo! Classes have started, I've already worked two shifts with concessions, I've played with some friends and I'm making plans to play with more (or trying to...). I'm sooo happy! I'm pretty sure I've been smiling since classes started because I HAVE THE BEST MAJOR EVER. Tuesday, in my first class we played Simon Says then talked about how people define leisure and what it means. That night in my Social Recreation class we played games and discussed how people play and socialize and how wholesome recreation brings people together. My Outdoors Leadership class plays a lot as well, and this semester we will go cross country skiing, scuba diving and camping!!! Seriously. This is my life.

I've decided I'm going to take a different twist on this blog. I am going to go have adventures in and around p-town. then I will blog about it so you can go and have those or similar adventures. I will keep it kind of journal-ly but mostly the stories here will be to tell you about fun adventures. Ready?!

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Here's what this semester is going to look like...

SEVEN Classes (16.5 credits)
  • Beginning Ballet (0.5)
  • New Testament (2.0)
  • Comparative Literature 202  (3.0)
  • Outdoor Skills Leadership (2.0)
  • Leisure in Contemporary Society (3.0)
  • Social Recreation Leadership (3.0)
  • Public & Not-for-Profit Finance (3.0)
15 Hours (max)/Week of Concessions
Disney Campus Rep Stuff
About 15 hours/week outside of sleeping and Sundays of none scheduled activities... (Oh, and finish the online history class I should have already finished...) Yes, I am a little bit crazy.

A rundown of my life in the last year is in the works... Because I know you CAN'T WAIT to hear all the stuff I wrote about in "some day". If you're lucky, maybe I'll add some fun facts...

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Dear Provo

Are you ready to give this another shot? Maybe starting in January?

Love,
Becca

Sunday, December 20, 2009

THE END

I left Provo on Wednesday.  I'm pretty sure forever.
The night before I left Susan and I went to get gelato like we did this summer, but our gelato shop was closed, so we went to the frozen yogurt place under Alpine Village. We had the best chat! We've both left Provo at this point, so it was really bittersweet. She's going to Spokane Washington on her mission and she reports to the mtc in February, so she'll be away from Provo till 2011. I on the other hand probably wont live in Provo again, whether or not I get my bachelors from BYU. But no worries Susan, we're going to be friends for a long, long time. You were exactly the kind of friend Heavenly Father knew I was going to need and I'm so glad we've been able to be there for each other!
Wednesday was a crazy day! I had most of my stuff packed up in boxes but still had my cleaning stuff to do. I got up three hours late and ended up failing my cleaning check (oops...). Then I had to sell my books back ($160!) and I made sure to grab a power bar because the last time I shipped all my stuff home I didn't eat anything until about 6 pm after running between my dorm and the bookstore all day (not good). When I got back to my apartment I had about half an hour to get all my stuff packed and into Kabria's car. Luckily my wonderful visiting teachers (Katie and Karissa) and our new Relief Society Pres (Jessica) came to my rescue! Jessica cleaned my refrigerator for me (Bless her soul)! And some boys came to help take my boxes to Kabria's car. Long story short I got all 6 of my boxes shipped and by the time I got to the airport I just barely made it through security and walked straight no to the plane. Ouff! It was pure insanity! And then I left Utah. Hello California!

Sunday, December 13, 2009

4 more days

Not even four... 3.5.  Huzzah! I can't wait to get out of Provo!  I can't wait for the next part of my life to begin! Disney and then Pastry School!  Oh what a glorious feeling!  I was at a shin-dig last night sharing some tartlets and people loved them! I love making tartlets!  I love when people love the food I make! I love when people tell me I'm making the right decision by going to pastry school.

To celebrate my last four(ish) days in Provo, here are four things I learned on Thursday (I was going to make a longer list that day, but I wrote the first three at about 2 pm, after that things sort of went down hill) :
Computer Science Majors are and (judging by their professors) always will be really nerdy.
The people who work in the music library watch [and love] Bollywood movies.
If you go on the Disney College Program you will hold Disney second only to the Gospel for the rest of your life.
Kaitlynn is not the only one who has a hard time eating when she gets broken up with.