In between mini-blizzards, Don drove us up Kolub canyon yesterday. Going from dry road to slush to snow and rockfalls in about 5 minutes and about a thousand feet. Since Neena has claimed first dibs on posting the photos of the amazing redrock behemoths called the Fingers, I'll make do with words here. The icing of snow on the redrock mountains casts into high relief the fissures and slots and textures of the rock. I cannot wait to hike it one day. To all of our amazement, we saw a bunch of folks off-loading gear from a smallish SUV, preparing to do just that despite the wintery landscape and impending arrival of yet more snow (huge dark grey clouds looming).
We took some shivery pictures of each other and the rocks and were glad to head down to lunch at yet another of the really good fast food places they have out here. This one was Mexican food, La Vida, or something like that. Courteous staff (WTF??), not a surly word among them and they even make eye contact. It appeared to be the home of the monster burrito. Yum. I told Don and Neena that this has really become Caroline's Eating Tour of Utah. heh. Fortunately, we had gone to the gym for an hour and were feeling righteously entitled to our pretty-damn-healthy pigout.
For our evening entertainment, we did some serious lounging around and rousted ourselves out to head to the video store for "Team America". N & D had been regaling me with tales of this South Park team-created, outrageously politically incorrect and obscene piece of puppet-satire. yes. you heard me right. Puppets. Marionnettes, to be precise. There is a puppet sex scene that is worth the price of rental all by itself.
One thing, O western dwellers. Esplain me what is this thing with big, burly young guys sporting billed caps and precisely trimmed moustaches and goatees? It it the new monster pickup truck driver uniform? They all look remarkably alike. It's the cultural anthropologist in me coming out. We want to know these things, eh.
One more thing, Goth is really big here. My theory is, as in Finland, Goth is especially appealing whereever blonde hair dominates. LOTS of black hair with blonde roots happening in Cedar City. Must say temporary goodbye to the high desert paradise. Heading out to SLC tonight and home tomorrow. And if you've never been out here? Put in on your list, fer shure...
That neatly-trimmed goatee thang is the closest you'll ever come to seeing a metrosexual around here. LOL I like it. Specially when they're getting out of a muddy Jeep that has a snowboard on top...or when it's one of my enviro-hiker friends making me coffee in the Zion Park campground on a morning so clear the cliffs look unreal, like a movie set...mmmmm...
Posted by: sleevelessinsu | March 20, 2006 at 03:16 PM
A puppet sex scene? There's also one (or rather a muppet sex scene) in Avenue Q which I found really creepy!
Glad you had such a blast on your vacation. Safe travels home....
Posted by: Ellen | March 21, 2006 at 09:15 AM
I once had sex with a puppet, for certain there were strings attached.
Posted by: Edge | March 21, 2006 at 02:32 PM
Sounds like you're having a blast! I did see Team America and who can forget that sex scene (((shudder))) I liked the first South Park movie better (we have the soundtrack. sigh) Catch you on the far side.
Posted by: Jayne | March 22, 2006 at 09:49 PM
Greetings Caroline!
Thank you very much for the fiction referral. I am excited just over the author's name! You make Utah sound like something I shouldn't have built up to be weird, awful and scary. It is welcome encouragment that I need, Jayne suckered me into promising to drive there this summer. My previous experiences have been less than positive but I think I may be trapped into giving the state a second chance.
Also, (I think this is weird) since entering cyberspace 4 days ago, I felt like from reading your page I would know how your actual voice sounds. It is like that with Jayne because I know her. I have read a other people's pages but I could "hear" yours. Is this common?
Maybe I venture too often into the metaphysical. I am so curious it would almost make me want to talk to you on the phone. Mmm... I hope I don't sound like a stalker.
Quitting whilst ahead,
April
Posted by: AprilReigns | March 23, 2006 at 09:42 PM