Utah- July 2010

Well, Steve started his first rotation on July 12th at a hospital in Lima, Ohio. That is about an hour and a half from Toledo, so they provided housing for him there and he was staying there for 3 weeks. We had decided that this would be a good time for Robby and I to make a trip to Utah, since Steve would be gone anyway.  

We arrived at the Salt Lake City airport at 10 p.m. (12 a.m. eastern time....) on Wednesday, July 7. Needless to say we were a bit exhausted. But, that of course didn't stop us from staying up for a couple hours once we arrived at my parents house! Robby was so excited to start exploring and become reacquainted with everyone (including my parents dog, Toby).

The next day we were able to celebrate my older brother's birthday (Happy Birthday Chris!) by going to out to dinner with my family. We went to a really good Japanese restaurant.

Robby insisted on eating with chopsticks like the rest of us!!!

  

(sorry for the poor quality phone pictures)

He sat there and tried to stab his food to pick it up. After a couple failed attempts, he would grab the morsel of food by hand and shove it into his mouth. But, this didn't stop him from continuing to try with the chopsticks.

He ate so much food there (as usual). At the end of the meal when everyone else was done, he wasn't satisfied and everyone started handing over their left overs for him to devour.

The most hilarious part was when he decided he didn't want to wait for grandma to give him more fish off of her plate. He would just get it himself. He suddenly swung his arm over and started digging around my mom's plate with his chopsticks. When he retrieved his chopsticks, he was completely surprised (as were the rest of us) to see a large flab of fish skin hanging from his sticks! He seriously just sat there holding the chopsticks straight up and just staring at it for a while, amazed that he made such a catch (and wondering whether it was edible).  We all just sat there laughing and hurried to try to get a picture. Eventually (probably because nobody was making any move to remove the mystery object from him) he decided maybe he should give it a try, and went to grab it with his hand. 

At this point, I did snatch it from him before he could eat it.

(more Utah adventures to come)