Salt Lake City Trip

We are just back from the long weekend in Salt Lake. Ok, I'm a bit slow with these messages as I'm currently in North Carolina (no pics - short trip). You know the weather is funny when North Carolina has received more snow in the past 2 days than Salt Lake has in the past week (4-5 inches on the ground here).

Skiing & Friends:
We had a great weekend of spring skiing at Solitude, The Canyons and Alta - the slopes were all ours due to the film festival - skiers usually avoid this weekend. We also had a chance to catch up our friends Chris and Angie at the Bayou where we sampled beers of the world and had some good eats.

Film Festival:
For our second annual outing, the film festival was as enjoyable as ever and Sundance was celebrating 25 year anniversary. We had to learn some new tricks - last year we would wait in line to get into the movies, but the first 2 movies we tried to do that at - they cut the line off just after the people ahead of us (odds are fairly low of that happening). We caught 4 movies on this trip with a range of emotions (once we found a way to get tickets ahead of time).

Movies Watched
1) Helen - Ashley Judd was not there, but the director was in the audience.
2) Reporter - Documentary about Journalism and special interest pieces - these guys deserve combat pay. At the same time I wonder where I can sign up?
3) Mysterey Team - Belly Laugh Funny, immature film - the cast was in the theater with us
4) Carmo Hit the Road - Film set in Brazil - the entire cast was there in the theater

There are some fun movie titles - "Asshole", "Manure", and "My Surfing Lucifer" - not sure if these will ever be mainstream - maybe they will be on Netflix.

Star Sightings:
Aside from the stars in the theater - we only had 1 star sighting, probably because we only spent an hour in Park City outside the theater. Park City is a great town, but during the festival there are just too many people.
I almost walked into Andie MacDowell coming out of lunch on Monday - she went into watch Sex Lies, and Video Tape, along with the entire original cast and crew from the movie that was a Sundance Film Festival hit in 1989.

Photos
A few photos from the trip, Salt Lake is a great place to visit.