Road Trip: Day 3

We woke up and had some breakfast and went directly over to the University of Utah, or "the U", for a meeting with some high school admissions guy and a tour of the campus. the tour was good, but the U has a two and a half square mile campus. Walking around all day made me really appreciate small colleges. The only weird thing was that there were a bunch of elementary school age kids there. I couldn't figure out why kids that young would be at college, especially during the summer. When we left I soon realized that Salt Lake City was really Bad City in disguise. No offense if you live there, but you've just had time to get used to the badness of the city. We decided to try and find some guitar strings, because my guitar was basically unusably in its condition. None of the places that we stopped at had guitar strings, so it was Bad City. When we were trying to leave all of those places we couldn't make a left turn to get out, because someone put a median in the middle of the road like they were trying to make every street a boulevard. That made it so we had to make a right turn and find the next good place to make a u-turn, so it was Bad City. After we gave up on looking for guitar strings, we decided to go to the movie theater to see Super 8. On one road we were going down, there was a light rail train track goin to our right. When we wanted to make a right turn we followed the track around the bend, assuming that it was going to stay in the right place, but that almost took us into opposing traffic, so we almost died, and so it was Bad City. When we got to the theater, we couldn't find anywhere to park, so we ended up parking on bum-street. There were so many homeless people there. Most of them were lined up at the homeless shelter/soup kitchen, but there were still a bunch just sitting on the sidewalk, and the strangest thing was that right next door there was a kindergarten or daycare center with kids outside on a playground. So it was Bad City. Super 8 was a great movie. It was everything I hoped it would be. It was like a cross between ET, The Goonies, and Alien. In a good way. The only problem was that I got a large drink, and I drank the whole thing in the first five minutes, so I was holding it for the whole movie. I would have left to use the restroom, but the movie was so good I don't want to miss anything. After the movie, I got my free refill for my drink, and we walked back to bum-street. I thought I was going to be mugged, because they could see that I had money for the large drink, so it was Bad City. When we were going back to the hotel, we ended up driving on this little road. I'm not even sure if it was a road. It was one lane of traffic with the light rail track going down the middle, and there were cars parked on the side of road that took up half of the lane even thought they were parked so that the car was taking up all of the space on the side walk. So my friend was driving half way on the train track, because it was unavoidable, and there were signs every ten feet that said, "don't drive on the tracks", and I had to look behind us to see if a train was coming, so it was Bad City. We returned to our hotel and went to sleep.