Monday, April 20, 2009

Our Kentucky Trip (pt.1)




Since Cindy already told you all about our adventures in moving, I'll pick up the next part of our story and tell you about some of our trip to Kentucky.

We flew out on April 12, with a layover in the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport.  This may seem lame for me to say so, but that was a pretty cool frickin airport.  If you're making flight arrangements, and have the opportunity to have a layover there, I'd recommend it.  It's big, but not as overwhelmingly large as some other airports out there, like Houston.

It was great to be able to spend time with Jeff, Cheryl and the kids.  Personally, I feel like I was able to get to know my wife's side of the family SO much better by spending just that one week with them.  They are a great family and I'm excited to be part of it.  

Monday morning we woke up and went to Jeff's Office, where Cindy worked for about 6 months.  It was neat to be able to see all of the places she spent her time during the time we were dating.  We then hit the road for our 8 hour (or so we thought, let's just say it ended up being about 9 on the way there and more on the way back) drive to Nauvoo, IL.  Now that's almost the same drive from Rexburg to Las Vegas, and this was just an overnight trip!  But considering I've never been there before, and we had no idea when we would have another opportunity, we just decided to give it a whirl.









It was great!  I would definitely recommend the trip to anyone who is interested in a little Church History.  They had restored a lot of the original buildings and had furniture and items in them dated from the original Nauvoo Era.  We also went to Carthage for the tour there.  It was very powerful, and spiritual.  It was all around a wonderful trip!

Winter Catch Up

So I intend to get a good amount of Blogging done tonight.  So I must start with saying what's been happening thus far.

Since I've had time off of school, I've been working almost full time from home.  It's been fine, but after a few months, I'm now ready to get back into school.

I did really good during the break to go to the Gym 3 times a week.  Between that and being on an official diet, I have lost 30 lbs from when we first moved to Rexburg!  Hooray for being somewhat less fat!  It has felt good and been good for my self-image.

When I would go to the Gym, I would always bring a book.  Man, you'd be surprised how much reading a person could do when trying to take their mind off sweating themselves into madness!  In the past 6 months, I have read the following books.

Porter Rockwell Chronicles (The entire set of 4)
Night of the Dragon
Angels and Demons
Ender's Game Saga
 -Ender's Game
 -Speaker for the Dead
 -Xenocide
 -Children of the Mind
Ender's Shadow
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy

I am currently working on reading the entire Hitch Hikers set, but with school starting we'll see how far I get.  I liked all of these books well enough.  Depending on what you enjoy to read, I would recommend some over others, but rather than rambling on about my personal critique's about each one, you can ask me and I'll just tell you what I think.