Homecoming

For my birthday, Travis surprised me by taking me BYU's Homecoming! We first went to dinner, and then had cake and ice cream at his parents house (Travis had secretly stayed home from school that morning to make me a cake!). Travis got this mini, electronic marque for me to wear all night (though I didn't wear it to the dance), that read things like, "I'm the best wife EVER!" and cute things like that. You can kind of see it in the picture below:

After dessert, we met up with Rob and Kim and headed to the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy, where the dance was held. It was really neat! When we weren't dancing, we'd walk through the exhibits and see the exotic sea creatures. I liked the electric eel, even though it was kind of ugly. It was really neat though, because they put a speaker right next to the tank, and whenever the eel got excited, or was ready to kill something, you could hear static sounds coming from the speakers that measured the electric current going through him, and the more excited he was, the louder the static!

We also saw penguins, seahorses, piranhas, an octopus, and rays. In fact, in the middle of the dance floor, there was a shallow pool of water with rays swimming around the edge. One ray was very active and kept popping up out of the water at the edge of the pool like he was trying to get out! It would always startle me when we would dance next to pool and he'd pop up unexpectedly. Travis and our other friends had enough guts to reach in and touch them, but it took me a couple minutes to gather the courage to do it. After I touched it, I quickly jerked my hand back, shrieked, and grabbed onto Travis as if the ray was some kind of monster. Hey, you probably would've been nervous, too!

But we had a very fun time- the whole night was a blast! We also got to write messages to each other and put them in a bottle. :) It was so much fun, I'm glad we went! Thank you for another wonderful birthday, husband!