The Secret is Out!!!

So Alex and I had been planning and saving for a "secret" get away for a long time. I planned that on Friday night we could come down to Idaho Falls and stay in Destinations (a themed hotel) then on Saturday go down to Pocatello and stay in the Black Swan (another themed hotel). It was going to be our little secret and stress free weekend for us. The week had finally come of our "secret" get away. (This past Friday and Saturday) Alex got off work early and I washed the car to make it look nice. We packed our bags and headed down to Idaho Falls. We checked in at Destinations and looked around. We then decided to go to dinner. When we got out to our car Alex noticed that it was leaking anti-freeze. We drove to dinner and watched to make sure that the car didn't over heat. Dinner was great and we decided to drive back to the hotel. On the way back we noticed that the car was getting kinda hot. Then hotter and soon the gage was in the red and we had to stop. Alex looked under the hood and noticed a leak. We were going to need some help. Since my parents live in Shelley (like 10 miles from where we were) we called them. Our secret get away was not so secret anymore. My mom had to come pick us up and follow us back to their house where our car would have to sit until the following day when Alex would fix it. My parents let us borrow their car to go back to our hotel. The next day Alex called around to several different junk yards to find the part that we needed to get our car running so we could go down to Pocatello. He found a junk yard that had the part. We then went there and Alex and got the part our of the old car. We drove back to my house to fix the car. Alex put the new over flow tank in in like 5 minutes. We thought we would be on our way. Nope, that over flow tank wouldn't work either. We thought about our options and decided that Alex would skip work on Monday and we would again borrow one of my parents cars to go down to Pocatello. This time we got to drive down to Pocatello in my old high school and college car. What I like to call "the Beast." It is an old Ford Taurus that has had quite the life. This car is equipped with a door that falls off, a handle that falls off, and rumbles at times when driving 75 miles per hour down the high way. It also has a great AC where you roll the windows down , but only the front two roll down. Actually, it was fun driving the Beast again, it brought back a lot of old memories. We tried to get as much of the car in the picture as we could.

That night when we got down to Pocatello we went to Red Lobster. I didn't really like the crab legs or the lobster, but it was fun cracking them open and then Alex would eat them. We took this picture in front of Red Lobster ourselves into the sun. It is pretty much the best.


Then we went to the late showing of "The Dark Knight." Here is Alex calling to see the times for the movie. This movie was so intense! It defiantly kept me awake and that is saying alot!



The next morning we were getting ready to leave and I thought that I would changed the toilet paper on the roll. I took out the old roll and went to reach for the new roll and hear a plop! Half the dispenser thing fell right in the toilet! I called to Alex to help me and he dug it out with a butter knife. It was amazing!



The weekend wasn't exactly what we expected, but it all worked out and we had a really good time! It will be fun to see what the next vacation brings.