The Manwaring Highlights: November 2018

Brad and I have always loved listening to A'Cappella groups and I'm kind of obsessed with Pentatonix, and the "Sing-off" was my favorite TV show ever, so when the Holts mentioned that Straight No Chaser was coming to town, we jumped at the opportunity!

Before the concert, we ate dinner at Shakespeare and Company which was right next to the Lexington Opera House where the concert would be.

I just had to take pictures of the restaurant's decor because it was all done in the old Victorian style, which I love.

Yes, I even took pictures of the ladies room!

How could I not when it was this beautiful?!

Brad and me

Bridgette and me

Veronica, Bridgette, and me

The best dinner of the night (according to Brad) was Veronica's hamburger complete with onion rings and an egg.

The best dessert (at least in my opinion) was my bourbon, caramel bread pudding!

I love the Opera house because there isn't a bad seat, it's all very compact with two
mezzanines.

Our seats were right in front on the second mezzanine, which made Veronica a little nervous because of the height, but we showed her the stage-lights right below us, which would break our fall just in case someone came by and pushed us over the
edge ;)

View of the stage from our seats

Veronica, Bridgette, and me (so fun to have the three of us reunited again!)

Well, Straight No Chaser did not disappoint!

My favorite songs were Thriller Uptown Funk remix,

Little Mermaid in real-life,

and their very entertaining version of The Twelve Days of Christmas.

Such a nice night with great entertainment, great food, and great company, who could ask for more!

Yellowstone National Park

Attending BYU-I is the perfect time to visit Yellowstone Park since Rexburg is just a stones-throw away. So Aubrey (with roommates' Anna and Amy) did exactly that one weekend ...

And so did Brittney & Sean and friends, who actually stayed in a cabin at Island Park, but drove all through Yellowstone.

This is how Brittney felt after the long drive!

I hope Brittney remembers more about Yellowstone than just being deathly car-sick!

Breck and Iris also explored Yellowstone Park ...

Brittney, Breck, and Aubrey were all there the same weekend, but their paths never crossed (of course it is a big place covering 3,500 square miles in three different states - Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho!).

It's funny how life comes full circle, I just had to throw in these old scrapbook pictures of me visiting Yellowstone Park (with my boyfriend at the time), also while attending BYU-I (only it was called Ricks College back then), almost 30 Years ago!!!

Somewhere, Idaho

Breck and Iris have explored about every beautiful place possible in Idaho. Although very scenic, Breck can't remember the names of most of the places, and as you can see from the pictures, some were definitely more warm than others!