Sunday in the SLC. What could be finer? Well...
Surprisingly, this was as uneventful a day as we've had in our two-plus weeks of road tripping. The drive to SLC was a three hour trip east on I-80, which Salina somehow managed to sleep for two hours of.
Once we were in town, we quickly found our hotel and pretty much slothed out for the rest of the day in our room. It was abundantly clear upon arrival that our bumping up the accommodations budget was going to be paying dividends. Nice place and we get to stay for two nights. Sweet!
The excitement of the day continued into dinner when we decided to try a place just down the street called, "Brewvies". The name is a failed attempt at cleverly combining "brews" (you know, like beers) with "movies". Greg likes beer and Salina likes movies, so what a great idea, right? Not so fast. The movies on offer were nothing short of horrible and without a good movie the place became a bar and grill. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
All was not lost however, as we were more than entertained by the local hipsters and the fact beer could be had in the Mormon capitol of the world on a Sunday night. A little research on the internets led us to the discovery that this was a recent development. Bars can now serve beer 7 nights a week and it doesn't even have to be 3.2% ABV (or near beer as it is sometimes called). There are still plenty of unusual restrictions on alcohol sales (not to mention the hipsters in SF wear much better costumes), but it definitely is not the dull, uber-conservative city we had it pegged to be.
That's it. Day 2. Done. Not much excitement, but the knowledge that the next day is Monday and that neither one of us has to work is more than enough to make it a great day. Day 3 promises to be much more eventful.
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