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Sunday, June 21, 2009

GO Directly To JAIL - Do not pass go- Do not collect $200

Several of our friends have been into the television series Prison Break and recommended it to us. In fact, 2 years ago in an effort to make it so easy we couldn't possibly have an excuse to continue not watching it, Preston lent us season 1 on DVD. Special announcement: we are now on the band wagon; Last week we started watching it with our friends Collin and Tianna.

To make Friday a real date night and not just another night of hanging out watching the show, we decided it was time for another theme date!

The whole evening was a surprise to Collin and Tianna and began with a trip to the tattoo parlor (Smith's Marketplace vending machines). Much to our dismay they didn't have any of the rub on tattoos with blueprints of a prison hidden in them. If fact, they didn't have any tattoos with blue prints of ANY building. We ultimately decided that the princess tattoos really wouldn't help with the theme of the date so we skipped them altogether and went home where we made dinner- Blueberry Pancakes (Lincoln Burrows last meal before execution).

After our "last meal" we jumped in the car headed off to the next part of the date with the VERY Apprehensive Zundels following in the car behind us. We headed north on I-15 and got off at the Bluffdale exit, at which point Tianna began demanding that Collin turn the car around. Her worst nightmare came true when we actually parked at the prison. Unbeknownst to them we had called a good friend of ours who works at the prison and had arranged an after hours, private tour of the facility. We spent the next hour walking through and seeing the maximum security prison cells where guards are trained on forced entry ( I even got to put on the riot gear) and hearing stories about what prison life is really like. Hollywood is notorious for blowing things way out of proportion for the sake of drama. In the case of Prison Break, it seems they have given us the edited, more family friendly version; Thank you Hollywood. The tour ended with Greg offering to schedule a time to take us through the actual facility where inmates are kept and to even walk among them but Collin declined the invitation when he was told he would not be able to bring his own Shank.


To continue on with the theme, we went home and played a game Candace had prepared. Each person was given 6 character cards with the name of a character from the show on it. Then each person was given 12 fact cards that had facts about the actor/actress on it; anything from where they were born to awards they had received. Each character card was to be paired with two fact cards and the first player with all the correct facts with the right person won. Congratulations to Tianna for a lot of lucky guesses. She was very happy to flaunt her win untill Candace gave her the prize: P.I. Pass for the next month. She will be pulling weeds, folding laundry, and doing the dishes at our place for $0.19 an hour. (at that rate you should be able to put Collin through Law school and graduate debt free in just a shade over a century)


The evening finished with us staying up entirely too late to finish Disc 5.