Lubbock, TX

One Saturday, Paul and I were sitting at home and we couldn't think of anything to do.  I mean we had exhausted all of San Angelo's evening activities, which include (and ARE limited to) going out to eat, and going to the movies.  We ended up going to Walmart, probably because that is what you do in Provo when you have exhausted all of its activities (which are slightly more numerous than San Angelo's).  Anyways, this was obviously unacceptable (Walmart? Really?) so we decided that we should take a trip.  Lubbock was the destination we chose because A. our temple is in Lubbock, 2. Texas Tech basketball was happening, and D. well, there really aren't that many choices in West Texas.  :)

Lubbock is a little less than 3.5 hours or 200 miles northwest of San Angelo.  The drive is mostly flat but the scenery was pretty cool.  We got to watch the sky turn all different colors during the sunset and we drove over a creek called Kickapoo!  Yeah, Kick-a-poo.  It's okay, we're 12.

We also saw something that I thought was amazing.  Highway 84 (from San Angelo to Lubbock) passes through a few West Texas wind farms.  If you didn't know, Texas produces the most wind power of any state in the USA (and actually, our electricity is powered by West Texas wind!).  Ever since I did a report about renewable wind power in maybe the 7th grade, I've been sort of partial to it.  And we got to drive right through the heart of the largest wind farm in the world, the Roscoe Wind Farm!!  It was dark by the time we drove up to it, but every other turbine has a red light in the center of the blades that blinks on and off.  So every couple seconds we'd be surrounded by hundreds and hundreds little red lights, until they went dark again.  On, off, on, off, on, off.   It looked so pretty!  And it really is too bad that I didn't get a photo because we probably drove by those awesome wind turbines for half of the trip!

So I'd say the drive was definitely worth it.  We made it to the Lubbock temple on Saturday morning and enjoyed the session.  The the exterior was pretty, the interior was gorgeous, and there was a couch.  Oh man, this couch.  This couch can only be described as the most comfortable couch in the entire world!  It was so squishy and sinky and soft.  But it didn't swallow you like some couches.  It was perfect, and it even looked nice!  I did not want to get off of that couch, I wanted to give them an offer.  Oh it was lovely.

After the temple we drove to Texas Tech to get tickets to a basketball game.  Some of you might remember the generosity of Texas sports fans when I told you the story about the ASU football game.  Well, it happened again.  We must look poor or something because as we were walking to the ticket counter an older gentleman stopped us, asked us if we were going to buy tickets, and then after we told him yes, told us he had an extra one and we could have it no charge.  :D :D :D

Before the game we found a Five Guys and went for lunch.  San Angelo has a lot of restaurants, but mostly just national chains and Tex Mex, so we were excited to find Five Guys.

Anyways, the game turned out to be really exciting.  It was close and went to overtime.  The Red Raiders pulled out the win though and the crowd (including me) went wild!  I love college basketball.

We drove home after the game, making sure to heed to the Texas stop sign (DQ).  We saw the red lights on the turbines again and also some oil drills pumping away.  Yay for Texas.

I was surprised that going to Lubbock could be such a good time.  It was definitely better than Walmart.