Nutcracker Fiasco!

Despite the yucky (understatement) weather, we decided to brave it and head to SLC for the ballet. We left Paradise about 2:40 and headed south. It took us about 40 minutes or so to get to Brigham City. Not horrible considering the crappy roads in the canyon. We went about 45-50 mph through it. We only passed one accident involving a four door Chevy and a Doritos delivery van. Kind of random but hopefully every one was okay and not too many chips were damaged. :) Once we made it out of the canyon, we noticed cones, State Troopers, and EXTREMELY backed up traffic. They must be closing the canyon we thought. Nope! Turns out they had shut down I-15. Awesome! Apparently there was something like 30+ accidents in a short period of time in a short distance. We picked up the rest of our group in Perry and stayed on the fruit way. Don't worry that we could have ran faster than we were creeping along. Time kept ticking away and we realized it was a good thing we left early to go shopping. (The shopping time was slowly and sadly slipping away). We were finally able to get back on the freeway a little before Roy. We picked up our last person and decided we should eat somewhere close by. After we ate, it had cleared up and it was fairly smooth sailing. We barely (and by barely I mean we parked at like 6:50pm and the ballet started at 7!) made it there on time. As we were distributing tickets to everyone (our group had 11 in all), we noticed something fishy. We were short 1 ticket!!! Are you kidding me?! Apparently there had been some ticket exchanging going on and somehow, someone used a ticket they were not supposed to have used the night before. Confused? Me too. Lisa went to the ticket counter on the verge of tears to try to explain to them what had happened. She was so relieved when they reprinted 2 tickets and handed them to her. What a relief! So everything is great, right? Wrong! After a closer look, we noticed that they just reprinted 2 of the tickets we already had!! So we now had duplicates. After a few deep breaths, we came up with a plan. We had enougth tickets to get through the door, we just would have to hope for an empty seat nearby :) So we sneakily divided the duplicate tickets and sent people in in spurts. You know, so they wouldn't catch us? We all made it in and it turned that there was 1 empty seat by the others. We all sat down and as each person made their way towards us, and our hearts started beating fastly, we hoped they were not coming for OUR 1 seat. Phew! We made it and thoroughly enjoyed the ballet! The roads were much better on the way home and I survived to tell you all about it! Yeah for memories that you can look back at and laugh at.