Today I am going to count the whole day as my "new thing". I had been to Sundance before but this time I met new people, went to new panels and also drove much further into Utah than I had ever been by car.
So yeah, today we arrived in Sundance! But first we had to get there from Cedar City. As usual, it took longer than planned. Because we got in so late the night before, we woke up later than we had wanted to and therefore got on the road later than we were supposed to. Again, there might be a lot of "pretty" or "interesting" around Cedar City, but on our way out on the 15 North all we saw were scenes like this:
But I would love to go back some day for the theater festival and also to see some other National Parks and stuff.
So we continued on through a lot of cow country and small rest stops. Our favorite little "stop" along that stretch is a "Flying J" in a town called something like "Ciscero", but it wasn't really "Ciscero" I just can't remember what it was and I think it sounded like that.
So then we went through Provo, Utah. We have video of all of this, and once I edit it all together I'll post it. But I have no photos of Provo. Sorry.
Then we went up onto the Mountain roads that lead us to Park City. It was beautiful.
We finally made it to Park City around 4 pm. 4 hours later than we had hoped. But that's okay.
This is what it looked like. So pretty. So cold. Apparently there had been a blizzard that had dropped 4 feet of snow for a few days before we got there!
Then we went to a panel about that site I mentioned a couple days ago Hitrecord.org given by the founder/director Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The panel was really neat. Very interactive with the audience. We got to help make some background noises for a short collaborative film that is being made from the site, we got a preview of the film, we were able to ask questions and Curtis even voiced a character for another little short! It was really fun and the idea behind hitrecord.org is pretty awesome!
This is a blurry photo of him and also a pic of me standing next to the "bed" he used to do a little filming during the panel! It was a very fun, unique and audience inclusive panel! Props to Joe!
Then we literally ran from that panel to the Fotokem Party which was a blast! We took a cab to the lodge where the party was and our cabbie told us he felt like "he should get into the entertainment business" because he'd been in it when he was younger. And then proceeded to tell us some very dirty jokes. I'd like to say this was rare for Park City cabbies, but actually over the few years we've been there we've had a lot of cabbies that have similar behaviors. The Fotokem Party has free massages and also free yummy food. It's a great party! We were there last year and it was a real honor to be invited back again!
We met up with people we were staying with Zeke, Ashleigh and James. I know Zeke very well but Ashleigh and James were new to me, so, there you go another new thing! Ashleigh and James are really great people! Aside from being awesome hardworking players in the entertainment biz, Ashleigh throws great parties and events and James is a great cook!
Then we got massages by a masseuse we met there last year named Amanda.
Then we mingled. We met some really awesome people including a guy named Bryan who is from the Brea, CA area and who told us a very good story about how the Saints won the playoff game that night(we had missed the last two minutes of overtime in that game) and his friend Gloria who is a great actress who has appeared in shows like Grey's Anatomy and Weeds and who was in a movie at Sundance called "Mother and Child" with Annette Benning. She was very nice and sweet.
All in all, it was a really fun party. I even snuck in one more free massage during the night! We also took some photobooth pictures! For some reason the awesome photobooth pictures won't upload correctly here though.
At the end of the night we had closed the party down and they kicked us out. We hopped on a shuttle down the hill to the condo and Curtis and I crashed on the living room floor. The end. :)
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