Some Spring Break

This past week was my Spring break that I had been looking forward to for a long time. I didn't really do anything too exciting the whole week because I had a lot of organizing to do at home and errands to run. Brendan was busy with a huge paper for school that was due this week, but we were planning a fun date to SLC on Thursday. Brendan only had one class he needed to go to, so we were going to drive up early and get breakfast at Market Street Grill and I would drop Brendan off at his class. After his class we were going to do a temple session in the SLC temple and then go shopping and out to eat. I was hoping the weather would be nice, but a big storm came and brought some snow I wasn't looking forward to. Brendan and I woke up at 6 a.m. to get ready for our fun day. As I was in the bathroom getting ready, Brendan looked out our front window and had some bad news for me. It snowed so much that a huge tree next to our house was weighed down and broke crashing into my car and damaging it. My windshield was shattered, and there were some dents in the crossbar between the windshield and driver's window and dents in my side panel. Luckily, Brendan had parked his car in our back parking lot or his car would have had even more damage than mine. Brendan usually parks his car right behind mine and a bigger branch fell behind my car. Our neighbor's truck was parked next to mine and they had quite a few dents also.

Instead of heading up to SLC, we had to try and get the car taken care of. Brendan had called several times in the past year and a half to have the city come and trim the trees, but they were claiming the trees were BYU's. Both the city and BYU ended up coming to our house. They determined that the tree that hit our neighbor's car belonged to the city, and the tree that hit my car belonged to BYU. After lots of phone calls we were able to get permission from BYU to have my car covered under their insurance. So off went my car on a tow truck to be repaired.

So our day wasn't completely ruined. We ended up going to SLC, just seven hours later than we expected. We didn't end up doing a temple session, but we were able to see my sister, Whitney, at Temple Square where she is serving her mission.

My windshield from the inside.


The branches that hit my car look small, but they did $5600 in damages.


These are the other branches that fell down that would have hit Brendan's car.


My broken mirror.


Whitney's companion (she is from the Philippines), Whitney, and I at Temple Square.