Another Bismark Trip

A couple weeks ago Ivan had to go on a business trip to Bismark and invited me! Our fabulous friend Mandy agreed to take kids OVERNIGHT! Emma has sleepovers all the time...but this was our first night away from Levi. She said he was really good. When we went to pick him up though I was buckling his carseat and said "were you a good boy?" and he started shaking his head NO. He is so funny. He likes to shake his head back and forth...especially if his head is hitting something. He always has fuzzy hair in the back from rubbing it.
Ivan and I had a wonderful kid-free time. The purpose of the trip was to attend a pulse meeting on innoculant. BORING! We got there around dinner time on Monday and the meeting he needed to attend was Tuesday morning. When we go there we were told there was a "hospitality room." Basically the company putting on the meeting bought A LOT of alcohol for everyone to enjoy. They had a suite and everyone just stood around drinking. We stopped by for a minute and enjoyed a coke while Ivan got to meet a few people in the industry. It's funny how different our environment is here. When Ivan worked for Honeyville Grain all the upper management were members of the LDS church. The standards are much different here but I feel like we have a lot more opportunity to be examples of our faith.
After we got to know a few people we headed out to dinner. We went to the Olive Garden where we were offered yet some more alcohol! You can always expect that at Olive Garden though. After a great dinner we went to a movie. The theatre was pretty awesome. It was a 9pm movie on a monday night so it was basically just us. There was one other lady in the theatre when we got there that was pretty chatty. Then as soon as the curtain opened she said "quiet now!" Ivan and I were busting up.
Here are a couple pictures we took. Ivan wanted to pose for the camera! And I even snapped a picture of one of the bigger theatres. It was way cool!



The next day Ivan went to his meeting and I started on some Christmas shopping. I spent some time at Barnes and Noble and even had lunch there. It was strange to hang out alone for once. It was so quiet and peaceful! I really enjoyed myself and am grateful we got the opportunity to get out for a minute.