Throw Back to Utah

I've been going through old old pictures on my computer lately and I can hardly wait to start Throw Back Thursday on my blog. I haven't really done much with this online trend on Instagram or Facebook, but I think it's important for me to document the memories I do have of times past when I didn't blog. I have so many good memories coming, and so many great photos to share. This is where I decided to start today.  
When Michelle came to visit me in Calgary in April 2010 we took a road trip with our good friends Eric and Mark down to Utah for General Conference.
The funny part was that Eric and I were actually not good friends at this point - like at all. We had date for about 6 months or so and then broke up and hadn't spoken a word to each other or acknowledged the other's presence for about 4 months - not my idea. We had promised Michelle that she would get her trip to Utah though, and both cared for her enough to put aside our differences and take the trip. What's the worst that could happen anyway right? We can be civil to each other for that - for Michelle. So we met for lunch one day and made the plans to go.
Side note: As mentioned, it was not my idea to not speak to him for 4 months. I would plan to run in to him at school, as our mutual friends about him, and all but stock him to just try to get him to talk to me. I remember the day I walked down the hall and saw him unexpectedly and he said hi and smiled. It was like my whole world flipped upside down - I don't even know if I gathered my thoughts in time to say hi back, but I know I was smiling. So when we met together and decided we would take this trip down to Utah, I saw my window. He didn't know it yet, but I knew that we would be able to talk to each other again - be friends again. I missed him.
So we spent a day in the car on the way there, and a couple days there, and a day in the car on the way back. They were the best couple of days I could remember in a long time. Michelle and I had a blast at Conference and shopping and sharing a room with the snake. On the way back we picked up our other good friends Matt and Ethan, who Eric and I used to carpool with to school while we were dating. It was like everything was back to normal again. We sang the Backstreet Boys (Quit Playing Games With My Heart, which literally just came on my computer as I am writing this right now) and Prozac in the van. I flirted shamelessly with the guy I still loved.
This trip means a lot to me. Shortly after the trip I moved home to Halifax for the summer. Eric and I got very close in the days between this trip and my leaving for the summer, but after I left that was all it was. We talked a lot on the phone while I was at home, but we both saw other people for the summer and we were really just friends after that. When I got back to Calgary in the fall that didn't last long. By late October we were dating again and had decided that this was the time that we'd get engaged and commit to a future together. Who knows how things may have gone differently if Michelle hadn't given us a reason to be forced to speak, to be in the same room (or van) and to spend some quality time together again.

 We printed 4 copied of this picture and each signed it for the others. We assigned each other super powers as well to go with it.