Remember in my last post [yesterday] when I stated I was not going to visit the City Creek Center until after April…

Yesterday, after staff meeting, my boss informs me that we are going to be doing new fixtures for a particular company and they happen to have a store at City Creek.  Then he told me we were going to the store at City Creek and then going to lunch.  Awesome.  I told him I was staying away until after April, but he laughed and told me it was mandatory.  Besides, who turns down a free sushi lunch and a field trip to the mall?  Especially with these two clowns…

Pretty sure I was the only one staring at the roof instead of all the retail.  But it only gets better.  As we are walking through the west section of City Creek, Zach texts me, “OG tonight?” – which meant he wanted to go to Olive Garden for dinner.  I agreed, and when I left the office I met up with him at the downtown location.  As we were eating and discussing the events of our day, we decided to go back and explore the entire campus of City Creek.  The whole reason I have been avoiding this new downtown gem is because I have a whole cluster of a month ahead of me, three out of the four weeks of April I will be out of town.  I just wanted to protect my bank account by staying away from those glamorous shops until I had returned home from all my work/family/friend excursions.  We were good though, and only stopped at the food court (so Zach could get a smoothie for dessert) and picked up a needed ESSENTIAL at a cosmetic store.  Not bad, not bad at all.

Our FHE was complete after the Jazz game and a night run.  A couple of streets down from us, there is a trail that runs along Legacy Highway.  If you run to a certain area of our neighborhood you can cross a little bridge over to the trail and run on a nice solid surface for quite a while.

So yeah, my boycott of local retail lasted…less than a week.  But City Creek didn’t disappoint – it was everything we both hoped it to be!