Provo is a funny town, in the Spring and the Summer it is a pretty quiet place to live, traffic is never too bad, stores aren't too crowded, everything is about just right then comes the Fall and it's a whole new place.
Yesterday I went to the gym after the kids were in bed. I've been going to they gym at night pretty regularly all summer, except the for the last 4 weeks when we had family in town I only went a few times. Wow how things have changed in a month. Just getting to the gym, there was a lot more traffic, people out doing things. The gym itself was so much more crowded, I had people waiting for me to get off machines, I couldn't even run on my favorite treadmill because someone was on it. The gym was louder and it had that singles vibe to it. I am glad that so many people want to be in shape but I don't like it when it disrupts my routine. 24 hours is a great gym though and I imagine things will settle down once school has been in session longer than a day.
I am excited to start working out routinely again while Lou does his homework, it always makes me feel so good about myself, and I love looking like my pre-pregnancy self.
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I noticed it, too last Thursday. I was in Orem at the mall and it was nearly impossible to turn out onto University Pkwy--at 9:00 at night! I used to hate the return of the students when we lived in Provo. In Lehi we're pretty immune!
In 1956 I was working in Provo setting pins at Regal Bowling and cutting lawns and as a soda jerk at the 'JS' (Joseph Smith) building (all 3 jobs at one time - needed $$$$s!) three weeks before the Fall semester started. Then registration and classes began and the tremendous increase in people and traffic everywhere even though obviously BYU was not as big as it is today, Provo was also more 'compact' BYU STAFF and Administrators actually all lived in Downtown Provo, mostly in the beautiful homes, some of which still remain, on University and 500 West. And I loved the increase, and all the times I lived in Provo and Orem, 1956-7, 1958-1962, 1976-1982 - the campus was active with events: sports, concerts, devotionals. And Diana, when you worked on campus with your summer job, when I'd be your 'limo' driver from Salt Lake, and spend the day bike-riding around Provo and out to the lake and up to the falls while you worked, and then the campus came alive again with the student return - Exciting!- loved it.
It's fun to picture you as a young student, Dad. It is exciting when all the students come back and it is nice living so close to campus with all the events that go on. Lou plans on taking Kira to a football game like last year, and make it a nice little daddy-daughter tradition.
I've noticed the gym is more crowded too, and that's at 6 in the morning! Sheesh. There is definitely a difference once Fall comes around. Having two campuses with 20,000+ students within 10 miles of each other makes for a huge influx of people.
Randy and I lived in the basement of a house on 900 East in Provo for the first 6 years of our marriage, and we hated the influx of students every fall because of how drastically it crowded every restaurant, movie theater, and business. We got used to it quickly though and just recognized it as part of the ebb and flow of the seasons, but those first few weeks were irritating to us.
I can't imagine living in Provo for that reason. What do you do when there are football games? I don't even like to go near Provo on game days, the traffic is so bad.
And how would it be to look like your pre-pregnancy self? It's been 12 years since I looked like that, but I'm hoping to change that. Congratulations!
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