Missionary Myers

       So I am a little delayed in posting this, but in March Michael & I had the opportunity to drive his younger brother Jason to the MTC in Provo, UT. It was a neat experience and I am so proud of him for choosing to serve the Lord. He is in the San Jose, CA mission and loving every minute of it. It is so exciting to read his weekly e-mails and hear about the amazing things he is experiencing.
       Before we dropped Jason off at the MTC we went to one of his favorite restaurants - J-Dogs. It's a hot dog place just off the BYU campus that serves the most life-altering amazingly delicious hot dogs. I want to drive all the way back to Provo just so I can eat there again - they are just that good.
       We also ate at the Rodizio Grill in Salt Lake. It's a Brazilian grill and it was AMAZING! It's an all you can eat meat grill and salad bar. The servers are dressed up and they bring the freshly cooked meat straight to your table on a spit and cut a portion right onto your plate. Some of my favorites - Banana Frita (grilled bananas coated in cinnamon sugar), garlic beef, bacon wrapped turkey medallions, sweet & spicy chicken, grilled ham and grilled pineapple. We also discovered a Brazilian soda called Guarana. Its delicious! We discovered that we can buy it online for about $1 a can but we haven't brought ourselves to do it yet. :)
       While we were in Utah we had the opportunity to stay the night in Salt Lake and visit the Provo, Salt Lake & Logan temples. It's amazing how different and how beautiful they all are. I love the feeling I get when I'm on sacred ground, even if I don't go inside I can feel the Saviors presence there and I'm so grateful that are places like that on this earth. We are truly blessed.
On the way home we stopped in Logan (Amalga) to visit one of my best old buds Lacy and see her new baby Kael. :) It was a really great trip and it was so nice to get out of town for a few days and just spend time together. Here are a few pictures from along the way:

Avatar vs. Ferngully

So Mike and I watched the new movie Avatar the other day and while it was a really cool movie, when it was over I couldn't help but feel that I had seen it before - and then it hit me! The new Avatar is the exact same story from the much-loved childhood cartoon movie Ferngully! Don't believe me? Well lets break it down... Avatar is about a human man who is part of a group trying to destroy a forest, which is inhabited by the native people who live in a giant tree. The human man is turned into one of the natives in order to learn their ways. Meanwhile he falls in love with the girl who is teaching him, so he switches sides and helps the natives overtake the humans and save their forest. Now, what is Ferngully about? Well, its about a human man who is part of a group trying to destroy the forest which is inhabited by the native people (fairies) who live in a giant tree. The human man is turned into one of the natives and begins learning their ways, meanwhile falling in love with the girl who is teaching him. He then switches sides and helps the natives overtake the humans and save their forest. I don't know about you, but that sure sounds like the same story to me! :) Don't get me wrong, Avatar was a great movie, but then again, so was Ferngully back in the day :). I'm just not sure how Avatar can be rated as the best movie of all time if it's a remake! Check it out on Youtube if you want. I'm not the only crazy person who finds this resemblance uncanny. James Cameron - you can change the setting and the characters as much as you want, but in the end, Avatar = Ferngully. Its the exact same story.