It all started as a calm wonderful Saturday morning. Eddie arrived the night before and we started the morning out with a great hike in the mountains. It was a beautiful day.
We then went to introduce Eddie to Tennyson. 
We even read him his first story.
From there we went to Mimi’s for a bite to eat. While we were eating a police officer walked in and arrested a guy sitting at a table near us. From there we took Tennyson to see his first movie, Ironman 2. Before the show started the police had to come take a man out for fighting over seats. After we decided we needed a chocolate fix so we went and bought really yummy cupcakes. Of course you can not have chocolate without milk so we drank Mike and Nichelle’s all while playing Killer Bunnies. It had been a long day so we decided to run to the Smith’s down the block to get our supplies for Mother’s Day Breakfast and to replace the milk we just drank.
Eddie was really getting into filling the cart with all kinds of goodies to cook us the next morning. About half way through the store he told me he would be right back as he had to go use the restroom. At this point I was trying to pick out just the right brand of syrup. I pulled my phone out of my pocket for some reason and heard Shaylin laughing, I guess I pocket dialed her. As I hung up Eddie was returning up the aisle. I began asking him what type of syrup we should get when we heard a loud “POP,POP,POP” we thought is was the balloons at the front of the store popping. But as we looked up towards the front we saw everyone diving to the floor. At that point we decided it was a gun and we better start moving. as we were running down the aisle towards the back we heard “POP, POP, Pop…..Pop,Pop,Pop,Pop!” We were yelling gun to the people in the back trying to figure out what was going on. The loud speaker at this point came on telling us it was a gun and to get down. We decided our best beat was to keep running towards the back door through the meat locker. As we ran out the back and across the street another guy came running at us with a gun. (He turned out to be a good guy trying to protect us.) At this point there were sirens going off all around us. We had no idea what was going on. After a few minutes we decided it would be best to walk back to Nichelle’s and get our car in the front of the store later. It was sad as we walked to think that we had no idea if and how many people were hurt or killed. It was a very sobering moment.
It turned out to be a man stealing a beer, running from security, beating security, being tasered by the police, pulling a gun out and being shot dead numerous times. It was an experience that is hard to explain….the thoughts an emotions that go through your mind are hard to describe.
Needless to say we decided we should leave Provo and come back to Chicago were we could be safe.
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