As you probably know we got married on Thursday the 24th of June and had a reception in California the next weekend on Friday the 2nd on July. With Kelvin’s car not having a cruise control and me not knowing how to drive a stick shift, we decided to break up the driving into two days and stay in Vegas because its about half way.

We arrived in my home town, Coalinga, on Friday afternoon and Kelvin was already to leave because of the heat. We did a few things when we first arrived: like help my mom, and hang out with my younger brothers; then we left to check in to our hotel and get ready for the night. The reception went really well, it was nice to see people and introduce “my husband”, plus it was only 93 degrees. This reception was a little more relaxed, we actually got to still down, have a drink of water and lemonade plus some of our wedding cake! Afterwards, we went back to the hotel open presents with some family. The next day was very low key with swimming, playing with my family, and eating delicious food. I wish we could have stayed longer, I wasn’t ready to leave family, hot weather, and good food.

On Sunday afternoon we headed by to Vegas to stay with our friends Luis and Natalia. We stayed up late into the night talking, and slept in the next morning. We went to the Original Pancake House for “breakfast” and then went on our way back to our home. I don’t have many pictures but here are some..

On Friday the 9th of July, 2010 Kelvin and I went to the drive in for the first time together with our good friends Shaun and Kim. We started the evening by meeting at their house to blow up an air mattress which we put in the back of Shaun’s truck. We left for Salt Lake with a 20 percent chance of rain. We went to the market to grab some batteries for his iPod Dock/Radio and a few snacks. There was a Subway on the same road so we picked up some dinner to take to the movie. We saw Toy Story 3 and Prince of Persia, we all loved Toy Story but most of us fell asleep during the Prince of Persia, since Kelvin and I had seen it before and it was pretty late by the time the second movie started. It sprinkled a tiny bit for a few minutes between the two movies but nothing we couldn’t deal with, over all it was a fun night.

Here are a few pictures of our first home! awww! (except the bedroom but I’ll post one when its clean)

Okay, that clean bill of health might be a bunch of crap.. but the free water and three free Slim Jims are not!

Slim Jim, multiplied

Image from: bennett4senate@flickr

The story goes something like this: We went into Dan’s Grocery to purchase a few days of supplies, just for the Hotel that we were staying in at the time:

• 12 pack of water (little plastic 12 oz bottles)
• 2 Slim Jims (one for me, one for her)
• 2 Plums (ditto)
• 2 Apples, Granny Apple Green (ditto)

• Bag of BBQ chips

The lady that checked us scanned two waters, on accident, and then pushed a button to initiate a return and scanned the water again.  So we are at +2 Water, -1 Water. All is good. She then scans the two Slim Jims, while still in return mode.

Maybe because she had to weigh some of them, or enter them in by hand, I’m not sure.. but the next five items rung up just fine. So she gave us the two Slim Jims not only for free, but because they were “returns” at about the cost of the 12 pack of water, we got the water free as well!

What a great deal! We should go to the grocery store more often, right?

Well, to appease all you goody-goody-two-shoes, we didn’t find out until the next night what had happened and we were now nine miles away, or about 15 minutes, driving.  We were leaving the hotel the next morning, so we had a moral dilemma: return to the store to inform them of their $4.00 mistake or write it off?

After a few minutes of guilt-tripping me (thanks honey) Jilleun got her way and we left the hotel around 9:30pm to fix the unintended error.

When we arrived, the same lady that had checked us out before was working again.  To not look like a total idiot when approaching the cashier, I went and grabbed another Slim Jim (also, I had already eaten both mine and hers that same day) then walked up to the counter where she was working.  At first she didn’t understand: Were we returning the merchandise we purchased the day before? After some careful explanation and showing her the receipt (pictured below) it clicked in her mind.  She then cancelled the pending order (for one Slim Jim) and told me to run like the wind.

“These days, people just don’t do that anymore.”

So, in addition to my already free Slim Jim x2 and Water, I got another free Slim Jim, just for trekking the 15 minutes back and showing a little bit of honesty.  Who says that decency doesn’t pay?

Free!

so I cut my hair today. Its summer time, I needed a change, plus I had been growing it out since November. Kelvin likes it long but oh well it’ll grow!