My Life as a Vagabond: By Mickelle Stevens

Last night for FHE my ward rode the train up to Salt Lake to see the lights at temple square. My first time riding the Front Runner, I was pretty psyched. The train ride was so cool!.. for the first five minutes until we realized how slow it goes. And then it was just kinda cool.

We got to the temple and were told to meet back at 8:45 to catch the Trax back to the station. (Quick side-note: my uncle is the first counselor in the Bishopric of our student ward and he was the one who told us to meet at 8:45) The temple was great, as usual. I walked around with my sister and her roommate. Good times were had by all. Around 8:40 we came back to the meeting place only to find that nobody --- NOBODY --- was there. We soon found out we were too late and that we needed to run to the Trax. Soooo we ran. We got to the Trax right as they were pulling out at which point my sister's roommate ran across the tracks right in front of the train (not sure what she was thinking that would accomplish).

We started waiting for the next one but then decided we needed to use the bathroom. We searched forever for a bathroom. We found one, but we looked for so long that we missed the next trolley. So we waited for the next one. We got on and then realized we didn't know where to get off. We asked around and then found out we were on the wrong trolley so we got off and started waiting for another one. We waited and waited and found out the original trolley would have taken us to the right place as well.

We waited some more and then we finally caught the right one and made it to the train station. At the train station we had half an hour to wait for the next train to Provo. Basically, we got home two hours later than we were supposed to and I was about ready to just jump on the nearest train and ride away wherever it took me.

In essence, never travel with a Stevens because bad things will happen. But on the bright side, we made a lot of new friends. We met Bagpipe Bob, Homeless Michael, Creeped-out Don, Twin Josh and Twin Ben, Australian Jonathon, Layton (not from Layton), and Catch-Phrase Hillary.