This was supposed to be

A weekend in Iceland.  I've wanted to go there for years, but the non rev gods weren't with us again, and we had to change our plans.  We are in Salt Lake City.  I guess it's not quite as exotic, but we've only been here for about 12 hours, and we've already had loads of fun. First stop from the airport was the Red Iguana.  It lived up to it's memories.  We found it a few years ago when we were here for a U2 concert, and Bubba has talked about it ever since.  They pretty much have yummy everything.  I had a chicken enchilada in a poblano mole sauce and Bubba had some kind of pork in a mango mole sauce.   While we were there, Bubba found a flyer for the Utah Arts Festival.  We went there after lunch.  It lasts all weekend, and today was the first day.  There are tons of arts and crafts booths with beautiful stuff to buy (which of course we did) and later in the day there were bands and other entertainment.  We went to find our hotel, about 20 minutes away, took a well deserved 2 hour nap (I had about 4 hours of sleep last night - work gets in the way of everything) and then we went back to the festival.  Unfortunately it was raining.  We went into the library to get out of the rain and found a short film screening.  There were 7 shorts, and they were excellent.  We got to vote on our 2 favorites, and there is some kind of state wide competition.  From there we watched a rhythm and blues band called Blues on First.  That one was under a tent, so the rain wasn't bothering us.  They were great!  The festival was a lot of fun, and maybe we'll go back before we leave..... Ok, I'm exhausted, so off to bed.

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