...But First

I can't wait to tell you all about my trip to BYU Education Week. My brain is so full of all kinds of amazing new facts and gospel insights! But first, I would like to share a few of the other things I learned about Education week that I wished I had known a little earlier....

1. When the dorms say they will provide you with bath linens, what they really mean is we will give you a washcloth and napkin.

2. If you want ice cream( or anything else for that matter) at the creamery on 9th... get there before Tuesday or you will be waiting in lines comparable to Disneyland. ( Really? Is the ice cream THAT good????)

3. Teenagers are not the only ones with selective hearing. At the beginning of each class, the host would ask for all cell phones to be turned off. No lie... at least one rang EVERY SINGLE CLASS I attended. Seriously? If people can't be obedient to a simple little cell phone request.. what do they do with things like the law of tithing? No Wonder the rest of us have to work so hard.

4. If you ever take a class in the Benson building... take the elevator back to street level. Especially if you are old and out of shape like me. Had I any breath left after the 100 stairs I climbed to get out of that place... I would have begged for a medic!

5. There are some super super smart people in this world... and I am definitely not one of them. ( Some day!!!!) But these guys are:

Prof. Richard Holzapfel

Prof. Robert L. Millet

Prof. Donald W. Parry


6. Marvin Goldstein is a really really funny guy... and one of the most talented arrangers I have ever seen.

This picture is bad... I know it. But, I was trying hard not to look like an Ed. Week nerd- being all gobsmacked over the presenters!!!

7. You must train for a minimum of 2 weeks on a treadmill set at a fairly steep incline prior to attending Education Week if you do not want to have sore legs after day 1.

This is how the campus looked at the beginning of the week

This is what it looked like at the end of the week. ( My classes were atop the mount!)

8. God does not mind if people fly into the state of Utah... but He DEFINITELY does not like to see them go.... That flight from Utah back to Arizona was a double puker!!!

9. If you do not want wicked gas from eating nasty campus food..... YOU MUST make the trek to the new Cannon Center Commons. Very impressive and definitely worth the walk.

10. BYU Brownies are apparantly world famous. ( Still trying to figure this one out) so don't fight it... just eat one.

11. Susan Easton Black has to be the most knowledgable woman alive regarding church history....well worth being tutored by even if her voice is just the tiniest bit difficult to listen to AND you have to walk ALL THE WAY to the Marriott Center.

12. BYU is the cleanest, nicest, friendliest, most peaceful, modest college campus I have ever set foot upon... I am definitely re-thinking my anti-BYU attitude.

13. The new Oquirrh temple is on the way to the SLC Airport and it is GORGEOUS!!

Why yes, I did take this amazing photo...thank you.

14. The bell tower plays Come Come Ye Saints every hour... and the first 20 times you hear it, you want to weep.


Well, that pretty much sums up all the stuff you REALLY need to know.... Hope you all get the chance to go someday 'cause it was truly an amazing experience.