A Visit From Heather Lilley

When I moved to Korea in 2001 I attended Taejon Christian International School. I met a lot of different people from all across the world. Many of the friends that I made moved away and each time one would leave we would promise each other that we would keep in touch, sadly that never happened. Heather Lilley was my best friend in Korea and she saw how sad I was that all of the friendships I made seemed to end as soon as we moved away from each other. She promised me that we really would keep in touch and stay friends forever. Well, it's been ten years and Heather came to Utah to visit me, her first trip to America.

Heather got in late on Sunday night. We had a sign ready and everything but somehow she walked right past us and we didn't even see her! To her body it was the middle of the night - poor girl!


Monday was the only day that I could not miss school. I felt bad dragging Heather along to UVU for class, but she was a trooper. I was happy to finish my last presentations and papers for school. After school Heather had her first WalMart experience. It was so funny to see how different our vocabulary was! Heather thought it was hilarious that we call shopping carts by that name, she calls them "trolleys." The plan was to go to the Gateway to go shopping but it was raining pretty hard, so I was worried. Heather reminded me that it rains all the time in England :) I introduced her to the apples at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory and we did some shopping. Then Trevor and I took Heather to Olive Garden for dinner.

Tuesday morning Heather, my mom, and I went for a hike up Bridal Veil Falls. Even though the weather wasn't very nice we had a good time. I was so scared and my mom reminded me that she took her primary girls on that same hike. I guess I'm officially a wuss. We took Heather up to Sundance afterwards and showed her around, while we were there it started snowing. We drove around Provo and showed Heather the Temple, the MTC, and the Y on the mountain. Then my mom took us for a yummy lunch at Cafe Rio (thanks Mom!). Heather and I were so chilled from the cold that when we got home we got in the hot tub. We mostly just chilled the rest of the day, painted our nails, watched my wedding video, and cooked dinner at home. Later that evening Heather, Brian, Trevor, and I went up South Fork Canyon and had a campfire. Heather introduced us to cutting bananas in half and putting chocolate inside then wrapping them in foil and cooking them in the fire. They were amazing! We will definitely be making that a tradition.

Heather eating her very first s'more

Wednesday Heather and I went to a few different stores to get craft supplies. We then went up to Layton. Jeanette was sweet enough to do glitter toes for Heather, and help us with some last minutes jewelry supplies for our craft. We then went to Mary's and Heather got to meet her and her kids. Ayden was speaking in his British accent for Heather, which was hilarious. We went to Chili's with them for dinner. When we got to Orem Trevor decided that it was a must that Heather have SubZero Ice Cream, so we went there. That night Heather and I laid in my bed talking and laughing, it was so fun.

We had to get a picture of Heather with the "Stonehenge" of Orem, Utah

Thursday I took Heather for breakfast at Kneaders for French toast. After breakfast we got all of our stuff ready and headed up to my parent's cabin in Timberlakes. We went shopping in Park City at the Outlets and then headed to the cabin. We made steaks, chicken, and potatoes for dinner with Nandos sauce that Heather brought from England. It was delicious! Kelsie came up and then we got in the hot tub and then watched "The Switch".

We asked a man to take this picture for us and he said, "You must be sisters!"

Friday we got our craft on! We made jewelry and I taught Heather how to make flowers. We made some cute stuff, I always love getting crafty. I just have a hard time getting in the mood to do crafts, but once I start I don't want to stop. On our way home from the cabin we showed Heather cute Midway and the Crater. Later that evening Trevor, Heather, and I went to Temple Square. Afterwards we took Heather to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner.

The finished product!
The Crater

Temple Square

On Saturday my Dad took us for lunch at a Korean restaurant. We ran a few errands, Heather had to get cereal and Reeses Pieces to take back to England. Later that night we went to the Bees game. We were so lucky it didn't rain while we were there, but we were bundled up because it was freezing! Kelsie met us there. When we got home from the game we looked over the notes we had written to each other while we were in Korea and had fun laughing at what dorks we were (and still are).


Heather headed home on Sunday.

I am SO happy that Heather was able to come visit me. She is such a good friend to me. Trevor and I will be heading out to England to visit her and go to her wedding next summer :)