Los Hermanos is a restaurant in Utah County that has a couple of locations, one in Provo and one in Lindon. I have now been to each one and don’t plan to go to either location again. A couple of years ago I was in Provo for an event at BYU with three friends of mine, we went to Los Hermanos in downtown Provo for lunch. We arrived and were seated quickly, we had a waiter who was nice and I believe he had just started working that day or a short time before. We ordered our drinks and received those and some chips and salsa. After that we ordered our food. We waited and waited for our food. After a couple of drink and chip refills our waiter told us that our food was almost ready. We had been there for about 30 minutes by this point. We waited longer and saw no sign of our waiter or our food. During this time another table near us has ordered, received food, ordered dessert and left while we had not even seen our food. We were out of time and decided to leave, as we were talking about another employee told us to have a good day and asked us how our meal was. We told him we never got our food but had to leave. He apologized, got the name of our waiter and asked for our phone number. Aaron said, “Why, so you can call us when it’s ready?”. There wasn’t much they could do at that point, we needed to get back to our event. We were completely unsatisfied, but I guess we did get free drinks and chips.

I went to the Lindon Los Hermanos for lunch yesterday with 9 of my co-workers, with hopes that it would a better experience. We arrived there and had to wait for several minutes before we were seated, they were busy but had room for us the entire time we were there, so they were a bit slow to get us seated. The waiter we had was a good guy and has only worked there for three weeks. He got our orders and brought drinks and chips and salsa. We were sat in a table upstairs and when our waiter was bringing the food up something happened and he dropped the tray of food. We did not see this happen, but heard several items rolling down the stairs, so we went over to take a look and saw our food all over the wall and stairs. It was pretty gross. The waiter came up and told us what had happened and that it was going to be a little longer until our food was available. He gave us a 20% discount because of this. Luckily he did not get any of the food on him, he said he threw the tray when he noticed it was going to go crashing down to keep it from getting on him. When the food finally did arrive one of the items had a piece of plastic on the top of it that looked like part of a straw wrapper, the waiter noticed this, commented on it, removed the plastic and dropped it on the floor and still served the item.

My second experience at Los Hermanos was better than my first since I at least got my food (which wasn’t that great) and a little entertainment.

We went to Seven Peaks today in Provo. I have never been there before, it was fun! We went with Josh and Sabrina, the Spangenbergs, Jodi’s grandmother, and Jodi’s other cousins, the Bartons. It was a good group to have there and we all had a good time. They have some fun slides and even a ride that swirls you around and takes you down a hole in the middle kind of like a big toilet bowl, the line was way too long for that one, wasn’t worth the wait. They have another ride that is kind of like a half-pipe, it is a good one, kind of scary though.

My day at Seven Peaks wasn’t quite as fun as it should have been, I hurt my toe pretty good this morning. I was heading down the stairs at home and slipped on the last couple of stairs, my right foot slid down fine but my left foot didn’t slide quite as nice, my toes got caught under my foot. I didn’t fall, but I hurt my toe. I didn’t think too much of it, but once we were at Seven Peaks I noticed it was turning purple. Throughout the day it got more and more purple. It just made it a little painful to walk around and I was worried about hitting it on something when I rode on the slides so I didn’t do as many as I normally would have. I’m not sure if I broke it, it might just be sprained really bad, but just to be sure Jodi put some gauze around it and taped it to the toe next to it. Thanks to Lins for giving us advice to do that.

Day 6 was the longest day yet. we spent about 12 hours at the house cleaning, taping and painting. We got to the house about 11am and worked till around 11:30pm. We left for a quick run to Sonic to get some lunch and drinks (love those limeades) and then stopped for a few minutes around 9pm to eat some dinner (frozen pizza). My friend Justin stopped by just after our dinner to check out our new place too. It was a long day.

When we arrived we checked out our walls and realized that when we got up close we could tell we needed to do a second coat, we were hoping that wasn’t going to be the case, but sadly it was. From a few feet away they looked ok, but there was some of the old paint showing threw in little spots all over the place. So we began the long work of retaping. We went through about 3 rolls of tape. Along with this we had to clean and spackle the bedrooms, they were pretty gross. I don’t think the previous lady ever vacuumed between the baseboards and the carpet, they were sick.

We also decided to attack the tall walls around the stairs. About halfway up the stairs there is a landing area where the stairs make a 180 degree turn and then go up to the second floor. Because of this there are three walls that are about a floor and a half tall. This makes it tricky to paint, especially since there are stairs in the way. It took us a long time to get these done, but we did them. I had to climb up the ladder a few times to tape the ceiling and to cut in so that we could roll the rest of it. Luckily I didn’t fall once and everything worked out. There were a few tense moments when I was reaching over a ways trying not to fall off the ladder, but I managed to make it through it unscathed. We are going to have to do a second coat, but we aren’t planning to bother with taping or cutting in, just plan to roll it which can be done from the safety of the floor with an extension handle.

It was a long day, but we got a lot done. Still some more painting to do, but we should be able to get everything double coated by Thursday still, in time for the new carpet. We’ve also decided we won’t be trying to paint an entire house in a week again either, lots of time to pull it off, just need to find some good, cheap painters!

Today was our first day painting. We started off with a little more finishing work on the spackle and taping. Then we pulled out the paint brushes, rollers and paint. We decided to start in the upstairs hall area since that would be a good spot to get in to the swing of things since it won’t be seen as much as the front room. It looks us a few minutes to figure out what we were doing, but once we got going we seemed to be moving pretty well. We finished the upstairs hall area and the walls around the stairs on the main floor. We didn’t get the three really high walls yet in the stair area, those are going to be rather tricky. We’ve only used about a half gallon of paint so far.

Tomorrow we plan to finish the front room and get the bedrooms prepped, hopefully we’ll even be done with the carpeted areas by the first of next week. So far it looks like we won’t need to do a second coat, hopefully that is still the case after it dries.