THE WEEKEND WITH THE STATE'S TALLEST BISCUIT

Weekend in review...

RUTH'S DINER

Dear Ruth's Diner,

Just wanted to thank you for the amazing chocolate malt pudding and biscuits this weekend. My husband, Clayton is a huge pudding fan. As for myself I do like pudding, but if I'm going to take the sugar route I would rather go with ice cream. I foolishly thought that I could take "just one bite" of his pudding. 12 (huge) bites later and a glass licked clean by your truly I realized that I was dead wrong. I was converted. As for your biscuits...they definitely deserve the title SLC Magazine gave them of "Tallest Biscuit in Utah". Humongous! Crumbly, but not dry. And the flavor...oh the flavor. Again thank you for the delicious food. We will come again.

Sincerely,

Heidi

ps Monday morning my "thank yous " turned into curses with a large weight gain. Oh well.

ATTEMPT AT HIKING

Saturday morning conversation...

TV WEATHER MAN: it is snowing at 5,000 feet in elevation

CLAYTON: Hey Heidi check and see how high up the hike is. The weatherman says that it is snowing at 5,000 feet.

HEIDI: Ah crap...the trailhead starts at 7,200 feet.

CLAYTON: what do you want to do?

HEIDI: I dunno. What do you want to do?

* this repeated "what do you want to do" conversation goes on for about 20 minutes
CLAYTON: Let's just do it.

And so we did...until we lost the trail.

We had to admit defeat. Whenever something goes wrong or we have to admit defeat Clayton has a certain ritual (search back too the Grand Canyon trip of '07). However,

that picture is for personal use only.

I foolishly thought that the snow was deeper that it was. Falling backwards hurt a bit. Like a lot!

Beautiful day though. Crazy of us to think that hiking in the middle of May in Utah was a possible thing.

JUICY BERRY
duh. every weekend must include ice cream or frozen yogurt of some kind. We decided to venture out and try a new self-serve frozen yogurt place.

#1 dislike: price! at $0.40/oz a bit high.

#1 like: yellow cake batter flavor. amazing.
other dislikes include...some of the yogurt was watery. no good. They also didn't have a huge selection of chocolate toppings.

other likes include...not making patrons ask for sample cups. they were by the bowls so we could take as many as we wanted. At $0.40/oz we got our money's worth on sample cups.

IRONMAN 2
Sneaking in huge cups of frozen yogurt into the movie theatre is a talent. It was here watching IronMan 2 we enjoyed our expensive awesome yellow cake batter frozen yogurt. The movie was good, but not as good as the first in my/our opinion.

LIVING TRADITIONS FESTIVAL

We went to the LTF a few years ago, and missed out on trying (trying=paying...something we didn't want to do last time) some amazing food from other countries. Ever since the Salt Lake Magazine posted their 100 Utah Locavores last year and listed the Puaka Tunu from the Tongan booth at the LTF a must try we have been counting down the days until we could go back. We came, we ate, we...didn't think it was the best pulled pork. It was kinda dry and flavorless. We also got some Otai (coconut milk, fruit and water). Really liked it but after about 4 drinks I was full.

No day is complete without a mention of me and my Indian ancestry. Here am I with my great-great-great-great-great grandfather/chief. I wanted to have someone take a picture with Clayton and I and granddad Chief and title it "which of these things does not belong?"

And that's all she wrote...