YIKES...Four months to catch up on!! And, we're on vacation, again!! And, something kind of funny, or a little bit bizarre, , kind of creepy, or maybe just weird happened to me at the Tulsa Airport this afternoon!!

A LOT of things have happened in the Sacker household since I last blogged...sorry!!  We had a wonderful time in Death Valley, CA and in Yosemite National Park over the July 4th holiday.   Will try to post a link to our Picassa Web album so y'all can see the hike we did, the gorgeous water falls, our lovely hotel and the mama bear and two cubs we were blessed to see.  I am absolutely terrified of bears...Brother Sacker calls me bearanoid!!  In fact, next July (2012), we are driving to Glacier National Park and will be there for about three weeks...hiking, playing tourist, etc.  He has advised me that we will need "bear bells" and new bear spray...although he is planning hikes where few bears have been spotted...just great!!  Yes, I'll make sure that I'm prayed through and can run faster than Brother Sacker!!

Some amusing things have happened to me while out shopping with my friend, Sister Taylor, from Beggs.  However, I will post blog entries on those things later.

So...as I mentioned up in my title, we are now on vacation in Utah!  We both LOVE Utah!!  We are staying at the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City for two nights (Fri., 11/18 and Sat. 11/19), then driving to Moab, where we are staying at the Red Cliffs Lodge for five nights, then, back to SLC for one night, then flying home on Sat., 11/26.  We rented a 2011 4WD Toyota Rav 4 and really like it...I'm hoping to get to drive it just once!!  Our hotel room is fabulous!  We originally had booked a Courtside room with a queen bed.  They upgraded up twice while we were checking in and we have a Tower room in the main hotel building...I'll try to post pics...if not while we are in UT, then when we get home.  I have to use Brother Sacker's laptop to do it...can't do it on my iPad.  We landed in SLC, flying through snow, but it was only raining on the ground.  After picking up our SUV, we drove out into SNOW falling.  It is just beautiful!  I texted a couple pics to some of you, but will try to get some more posted.

This is the sitting room and bedroom of our suite.

This is the view from our suite of downtown Salt Lake City.

  

We went to have sushi at Simply Sushi...delicious sushi.  We both tried miso soup tonight, too...turns out it is just fish broth...very tasty.  Our server was a delightful young lady, Mary.  Her buddy, Harrison, AKA Dexter (don't have a clue why he is also known as Dexter!) delivered our sushi to us and we ended up taking their pics...which I will post ASAP...as I promised them both I would do!!

Mary and Harrison, of Simply Sushi.

Now...to that kind of creepy thing that happened to me at the Tulsa Airport today...I actually had put my hair up at home, then took it down because last time I wore it up when we were flying from Tulsa, the hairpins set off the alarms in the X-ray machine, and they messed my hair up, looking for...well...who knows WHAT they were looking for!!  So, today, I step into the X-ray machine thingy, and the lady there told me to step out, that she was going to do a upper body search on me!!  Apparently, the beading on my dress/top had metal in it and set off the alarms!!  So, I stepped aside and she explained what she was going to do, and how she was going to do it.  Actually, she barely even touched me, then told me to step over to this other strange looking machine thingy.  Which, of course, I did!  She then proceeded to wipe a piece of cloth over both of my hands, then insert it into the machine.  Then, she told me I was cleared to go.  I asked her what the cloth wiping routine was all about and she said, (and, I quote!!) "I was testing to see if you had been handling explosives"!!  OK...do I really look like the kind of nut that would be playing around with explosives?!  I certainly hope not!  I told a friend of mine about it and her husband asked her...well, was she?!  I am SO uncoordinated that I would probably blow myself and half my neighborhood up...IF (and that is a really huge IF!!) I ever even reamed of imagining handling explosives!  I mean, come on...a Unabomber wannabe I am NOT!!  Anyway...it was kind of creepy, but I really don't understand why other people have made such a big deal out of the kind of search they did.  The lady barely touched me and it certainly did not embarass me in the least...it was just one of those weird things that happen to me!

We are exploring Salt Lake City tomorrow, then heading to Moab on Sunday.  We have several hikes planned and some off roading adventures to take and some rocks to collect!  We will be visiting/hiking/driving in Arches National Park and in Canyonlands National Park.  Hope all y'all have a wonderful weekend.