The Update

Daily Gratitude Shout-Out!

Shout-Out goes to my very best friend, Kate.  Thank you for your friendship.  Last night was the greatest! I'm glad we can make the best out of anything together!  It was so fun, and I wouldn't have replaced a moment of it to go to that stinky Prom.  Our fun and laughs are priceless.

My Frɒm Update!

Last night was bomb.  Frɒm went exactly according to plan,
and I wouldn't have wanted to change a single minute.

After sleeping in, having a delicious breakfast, and tidying up my room, Kate came over.  After I got ready, I did Kate’s hair and make-up, and we got in our pretty prom dresses from last year to take some pictures.  Then my wonderfully proud mother took our pictures while we were all prettied up. She was just so sweet telling us how beautiful we looked, and we felt pretty good!  We felt so pretty, and it was so fun to dress up even though we weren't going to the dance.         
 

After that we drove to Salt Lake City and decided to hit the 7:05 showing of the new edited version of The King's Speech at the Broadway Centre Theater.  It was such a great movie; very inspirational with a beautiful message of having confidence in your own voice, which was appropriate when we thought about it.  Then we drove around for about a half hour searching for our restaurant, The Red Iguana. Once we finally found it, it was close to closing time so there wasn’t a wait, which was nice.  It was a great atmosphere and the service was amazing!  Our waiter, Geraldo, was the best and was so good to us.  The food was SOOOO good and very authentic.  We ordered dessert, and when the big plate of sopapillas arrived he told us that no one has ever finished the whole plate before and he doubted that we'd be the first. 

      

Needless to say... we were the first!  Ha!  We downed that sucker in like two minutes!  It was awesome.  He came back to our table and freaked out when he saw we had actually finished. He couldn't believe it and, to be honest, I couldn't either.  There was so much on that plate!  (I'm pretty sure it had something to do with us coping with not going to Prom.  Subconsciously, I bet we downed that plate to cope with the situation and stress eating was the best coping mechanism our brains could conjure up.  But I didn’t mind… it was delicious!!!) 

Anyway, after Geraldo was done laughing he asked us why we were in Salt Lake.  We told him our sad story and he was very sympathetic towards us.  By the end of the night, we were the best of friends with Geraldo and he told us our dessert was “On [him] tonight.”  He also promised that if we ever come back, we just needed to "ask for Geraldo" and he'll give us the "hook-up," meaning we won't have to wait the two-stinking-hours.  It was so cool!  The night concluded with us falling asleep to Meet the Robinsons in our PJ's.  It was the best.

The night had not been wasted!!! 

Even though we didn't get asked to Prom, we made the best of it and went out ourselves.  And what came of it?  Well, we:

• Got all pretty in our dresses and still got our Prom pictures.
• Had a night out in Salt Lake.
• Saw a great movie.
• Had yummy food at a new place we had never been before.
• Had a whole plate of sopapillas for FREE! ("Free" makes everything so much better.)
• Made a new friend.
• Got "the hook-up" at a popular restaurant.
• And a stronger best friendship than ever and a million more inside jokes to prove it.

I think that’s a pretty nice list!  It was so fun and relaxing to just go out with my best friend.  I don’t regret not being asked to the Prom.  Before, it was easy to get down on the matter, but after Frɒm being such a huge success, how could I want anything else!  I wouldn’t trade the fun I had for anything.  Thank you, Kate!  Thank you, Geraldo! And thank you, Frɒm!

P.S.  Here's some Frɒm-night pics: