A Utah Adventure

This past week I spent a couple days in the "Beehive" state; also known as Utah. My trip began in Stockton, CA where the basketball team beat the University of the Pacific on Wednesday night. Thursday morning we boarded the bus and headed to the Sacramento Airport to catch our flight to Salt Lake City.
We arrived in Salt Lake City, gathered our luggage and boarded the bus for Logan, UT. On the way up the coaches decided to stop to eat. We stopped in Davis County, UT and the city of Centerville, where the majority of the team decided to sit down at IHOP. As we walked through the doors the restaurant was completely empty. The the three waitresses immediately jumped up to attend to us and began what practically became a three stooges routine competing for our attention. The shorter of the three began with "Hey Coach! I can play basketball" and then proceeded to do her best dribbling interpretation. The tallest of the three then chimed in with " You're too short to play, I'm the tallest one here I'd be great at basketball." Eventually the novelty of our team wore off plus a couple of the guys decided to go to Quizno's instead.
After we got through the comedy routine a woman with her mother and baby entered and sat in the same general area as us. The baby's mother when she found out we were a basketball team went crazy and asked the team to autograph a piece of paper for her baby. The guys being the good sports they are obliged. After the wonderful experience at IHOP we made it back on the bus and finished the drive up to Logan.
That night the media guys and myself went to go see a movie. We got the number for a cab, which turned out to be the only cab in town. The cab driver's name was Russ; a white guy who drives a white cadillac. The drive begins well enough making small talk before this cabbie goes all racists on us! He begins telling us stories of the Utah State Football team and how they get all their players from central LA and that at the end of every season the sheriff has just gotten enough evidence to charge some players with crimes that occurred during the season. When we finally arrived at the theater he was still spewing his thoughts. The movie was great! I saw Juno for the second time. We got back in the cab, but this time we were given a history lesson about mormon settling in the area, which was about as offensive as the cab ride to the theater.

Utah was crazier than I thought!