I fell in love with this fairy tale story with an entrepreneurial twist. It strikes me as being the perfect screenplay for a movie. It has romance, suspense, good food, and history. I love stories and writing them is my favorite. Also, I’ve only been to this restaurant one time but it really was romantic and the food is incredible.

If I thought I could make it I’d get my old job back at the flower shop and support myself doing it, I would. Then I’d blog about the stories people tell about their lives. People have reasons to buy flowers and that year in college made me wish I was a columnist. Now I wish I could make a movie.

It starts in 1920 with a love story about a man who built a cabin for his wife for their anniversary. It was built in the trees of Salt Lake’s Mill Creek Canyon and aptly named “Log Haven.” It was a place to discuss ideas and for the couple to spend summers.

At one point the property was turned into a restaurant, then in the 1980s it was in such disrepair that it was condemned. And that’s where the love story picks up again. Then a woman named Margo Provost got involved. She was a newlywed and in love. Her husband had seen the place and suggested she revive it. She quit her high paying executive job and without any experience in the restaurant industry, went to work.

It was more difficult than she imagined. The general contractor got hepatitis and she didn’t get financing she hoped for. She sold her houses, her cars, ran up her credit cards, and dipped into her retirement. And in 1994 she reopened the Log Haven restaurant, and the story continues. The restaurant and Provost continue to win awards meanwhile it’s still sought out by people in love.