odd date, air show, picnic in the jeep

i didn't have to work on friday. it was glorious sleeping in. i actually slept until noon. WOW! i never sleep that long. ok, i didn't get to bed until after 2am thrusday night. we did a movie night at lis' with the projector. then i came back to my place and chatted with erin for a few hours. so anyways, friday i slept in. took my time getting ready for my date with lance. went grocery shopping for my date saturday with ryan, and then took a bit more time and did nothing. i may remind you that i am not one of those girls that likes to take soooo much time getting ready. it was awkward and i still had time to spare. i was fairly certain i knew where i was meeting lance, so i didn't leave quite as early in case i got lost. my garmin took me right to where he said to meet him, pei wei asian diner. only, lance wasn't there. so after a phone call, we realized there was more than one pei wei asian diner in slc. he was a gentleman and came to find me.

it was really good food. i ate all of mine and then felt like a pig when i saw lance hadn't eaten all of his. at least he paid, right. oh well, whatever. after dinner, we went to play laser tag. we played three rounds. it was a lot of fun, but not quite so much for a date when you don't really know each other at all. i hadn't played laser tag in forever so i forgot that you get code names and go on a "mission" each man (or woman) for himself. we couldn't decide what code names we wanted, so the nice people behind the counter let us draw from a bucket. i drew for lance, and he drew for me. he drew out cupcake, and i drew out playdough. so i was cupcake, and he was playdough and off we went to go 'kill' the little kids having a birthday party. then finally on the third round, it was more adults, or at least older teenagers. ps...lance is 21. after laser tag, we went to chilli's for molton chocolate cake. again i felt like a pig as i consumed probably 3/4 of it while lance barely touched it. it was rather late at this point, so lance took me back to my jeep. we talked about another hour and then we both drove away. i think lance would be cool to hang out with again, but i don't see another date in the future. and i am hoping for something more with ryan.

so on to saturday..... :) i got up at 6am (sleeping in for me) and went to work at 7. work was quite nice and i got a fair amount done. i left at noon and came home to get ready to go to the air show with ryan. he was running late because he got to go play paintball and they got a late start. no worries though. we had all day to get to the air show and look around at all the planes. it actually worked out better for me with him running late. i got to get myself all cute and got our dinner ready for after the air show. ryan was a kid in a candy store with all the airplanes. i was fascinated as he told me what he knew about each one. we sat in the pilot's seat in one of the black hawks they had on display. ryan showed me which airplane he has jumped out of for the army trainings. we tried to get in it and look around, but there were too many people. then we watched the thunderbirds do their maneuvers. i never realized how close they really are to each other. it was crazy! ryan really got excited when he found the exact plane he wants to buy. it was a sr22 something or other. i can't really remember. but it is a sweeeeeet plane. he made the comparison that this plane is the sports car of cars. it can go out in freezing conditions because there are special breathing holes on the wings that cry deicing fluid. we couldn't find the owner to discuss more about the plane. we did get to look at some cool helicopters and talk with those guys. they run a business out of ogden airport and will let you fly for a half hour for a hundred bucks. and when i say you fly, i mean you get to take the controls and they instruct you while you fly the chopper. i think when i get an extra two hundred, i'll take ryan.

when we finally decided to leave, we got stuck in traffic. it took us just over an hour to get out of hill air force base. then we stopped back at my place, grabbed the food, switched vehicles (we took ryan's truck to the show), and went to meet mary & james at a park for a picnic. the weather turned rainy at this point, so we all climbed in the back of my jeep and finished our picnic. yes, yes, four people can sit in the back of my jeep and have a picnic. it was funny. i felt bad for james because he wasn't quite as little as mary, ryan, and me. but we still had fun.

after we ate, we were going to play frisbee or volleyball or something, but the weather really didn't want to be nice anymore. so ryan & i went to wise guys comedy club and mary & james did something else...... not sure since i wasn't with them. the first comic wasn't that funny, but the other two that performed were pretty good. the show ended earlier than we had expected, but it was still a long day for both of us. i got up early to go to work, and ryan got up early to go paintball. poor guy didn't eat breakfast, and he skipped lunch to hurry to get down here to see me and we didn't finally get dinner until 8 ish. so he was exhausted, and i was tired. we came back to my place and were about to fall asleep so we said goodbye. ryan invited me to come paintball monday evening. he left his hat here at my place...not sure if that means i have to take it to him now or if i get to keep it... it's his favorite hat i may add. so all in all, i think things are going good places with ryan. i like him a lot. and he is always a gentleman.