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Some summer days are just too perfect. It throws me back to elementary school days when mornings were careless and afternoons were easy and makes me wish it were always so simple. As the boredom of adulthood sets in, it’s generally much harder to piece together such perfection, but it appears that on Saturday I managed it. I’m blessed with the most wonderful sister to spend my time with, and lucky for me she also fell in love with one of my best friends. I suppose people find it odd that we all spend so much time together and that I don’t mind being the recurring third wheel, but they’re just so much fun, how can I complain?

We slept in and woke up to sunshine falling on our faces. After a long stroll around the neighborhood and relaxation on the hammock, we officially declared it “Cute Day”. Everything looked cute, we felt cute, our clothes were cute, and we were dying for some cute food. Boys never understand this concept… to them food is just food. But as we were driving around downtown Salt Lake, our only pleas were that whatever we ate be cute. Sometimes I don’t think Utah is capable of producing the aura we were after, but as it usually does, Utah proved us wrong and we found exactly what we were looking for. Beehive Tea Room. Otherwise known as heaven on earth. As we drove by scanning all the buildings, its decorated windows caught our eyes and we knew we just HAD to eat there. So we did, and Aaron and Peter were kind enough to cater to our intense desire for CUTE. Cute tea, cute salads, cute sandwiches, cute chairs, cute atmosphere, cute waitresses. CUTE CUTE CUTE. Not to mention the best chai tea I’ve ever had. As we left, the clouds were pouring and we ran down the sidewalk shrieking and laughing, surely a ridiculous site.

The day continued with lazy reading, a lovely tour of the Capitol Building landscape, and a most fabulous concert performed by the great Ben Kweller May every summer day be this slow and splendid…