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What a crazy couple of days. Basically the past four days we were WAY busy. Friday we went up to see Cody's cousin: Amy's fiance go through the temple which was way cool. The rest of the weekend was spent either studying for the test I had today or preparing our talks for Sunday (as in this past sunday). I didn't even have time to go to the game 8( Though....I think it was better that I did not get emotionally invested in the outcome of said game. sheesh....i swear, my last year here and they fall apart like this-I hope basketball won't dissapoint.

So anywho, The test today went ok so we'll see. It's nice to have that particular one not hanging over my head though.
Tonight we were invited to this meet and greet thing for stockamp/huron who is based in Portland. EH...I dunno, Portland sounds cool and all but...I dunno, just never thought of the west coast really. It didn't help that when I introduced myself and said I was from Houston so I could handle the humidity the recruiter guy made some comment about how that would be the last place he wanted to go (all in good fun/joking-I mean, yeah it sucks in the summer) but I love Houston/Texas in general so you're not gonna win points with me by saying that with your lil 2 mil town-psh.

It was cool though-they fed us costa vida and we bowled at fat cats-which i had never gone to before. The second game I got a 99...it was heartbreaking cause I got a strike on the last turn so I got the extra frame and then somehow managed to get a gutterball-I just had to get one pin and I couldn't even do that-argh! I don't know when I last bowled over a hundred (you can see why I don't bowl much).
So yeah, it was fun. Tomorrow we have a sit down dinner and further info session with exxon so we'll see how we feel after that and we're still waiting to hear from USAA which I think is our first pick if we're given the option...

Exciting times-weird to think of a life beyond school and living within walking distance to a lot of things etc. Our lives are going to change so much in the next year it'll be crazy. It's kinda fun though, now that we're looking at certain places I can start looking into the museum scene and what they have to offer there. I'll have to research but I wonder if San Antonio or Portland have more museums than Houston...I'm thinking no, cause I know we have a TON.
but anywho, I also wanna get out and see different parts of the country and have a life of our own-we dont' have to be right where I grew up.

We also got callings-we're sunday school teachers together which will be fun I think. We've both had experience with that sort of calling/not to mention missions that kind of gives you a big crash course in teaching and preparing thoughts so we'll be good to go I think.
Well, I am off to finish an episode of GG from earlier-my reward to myself for being done with that test-sigh, i forgot how much i love it.

On Broadway

WOW, I've just re-awakened my love for musicals. All I have to say is that it's entirely too easy to buy music on itunes-just a click and you don't think of how much the .99's are racking up, haha. So I got favorites from guys and dolls, jekyll and hyde, and the original phantom.
If you haven't had the pleasure of discovering jekyll and hyde (the 90s version if I remember...) then I HIGHLY recommend the following songs:

Take me as I am
Someone Like You
No One Knows who I am
Symphathy, Tenderness
In His Eyes
A New Life

There's also a sweet duet between Jekyll and Hyde but I can't remember the name of it/find it based on the samples on itunes. but yeah...anywho, beautiful songs especially no one knows who I am and sympathy,tenderness.

It was a fun Sunday-everyone is way cool and nice in our RS (the first time I was there). Dinner was great and game night with the Engstroms was, as always, fun. The weekends go soooo fast 8( haha, but oh well.

so that's what happens when your offense struggles and your defense is non-existant...

What a crazy week and it's STILL not over. I'm all "functioned" out. Wednesday I started my internship at the Springville MOA which is way cool and I love the people I work with. That night they had college night with food and entertainment trying to get the college crowd out. We had around 200 which I think is pretty good and it was a cool atmosphere-seriously a way cool place, esp. with the gardens out back-you should check it out if you haven't before. Anywho, and then Thursday Cody had a marketing club social thing he had to help out at, so I went and got some free pizza and waited for that to wrap up.
Then it was off to the BYU MOA's opening social thing for the new freshman that I had to write about for my curatorial studies class-again, food and entertainment....don't get me wrong, it's great and all but like i said-I'm all functioned out. Oh yeah, and then last night we had our bridal night at BB&B where they give you 20% off of EVERYTHING you buy and since we still had a lot of store credit/gift cards we hit it up for the remaining things we needed-ya know, like a panini maker....yes, that's a need. So we get there and yet again it's a function-free food, raffle etc...shrug, I'm just so over the function-I'm only interested if I happen to be hungry. Though it was sweet to pay 6 cents for 400$ worth of stuff and have gift cards left over :)
Other highlights of the week:
Friday morning I successfully traveled by bus to the museum-it was actually way easy. I've definitely come a long way from freshman year getting lost with andrea on the way to walmart and calling her sister who asked us: where's the mountains? (trying to get a feel for where we were) we responded: all around us, we're in a VALLEY....yeah, I've made a lot of headway with that too-I can now use cardinal directions in my direction giving like a real grown-up. (in our defense R.C. Wiley's does kind of look like walmart from the side and at night.) That's ok though, I've always wanted to wander down University Parkway at night.
ANYWHO, so yes I made it to the museum and all was well. We watched The Great Debators with Denzel Washington-a way good movie-for Cody's class. Tonight we have to watch Babette's Feast for my theology class (I've already seen it but it's a good one).
Notice how I glossed over how we spent our afternoon? yeah...let's not go there. I just feel worse for my parents and older brother who took time out of their lives to drive all the way there from texas and sit in the hot humid stands. ouch.

In other news our apartment is looking really good-all that's left is getting our wedding pics from our photographer and then we can print and put up pictures and it will be complete-i can't wait.

Honeymoon part II

Here's a video of after the nature hike once we got to the other side of the island and a very sweet beach.

The Honeymoon part I

so all of the pics from it are on facebook but i'll put some cool videos here and some amusing anecdotes....ok let's face it I can't remember what they were but just be aware that they were amusing.

Activities:

-first order of business was washing the car after the reception and then it was off to the lil america in salt lake-a way nice hotel. (there will be pics of the car once i get the pics from brandee.)

-Sunday morning bright and early we flew to orlando florida where we checked into the hotel and went swimming in the pool, ate out at tgif's, and the next day we got onto the ship.

-monday evening was just sailing and then tuesday we arrive at coco key (pronounced: "kay") a small island that the cruise line privately owns. There are 70 odd people/native employees that live on the island which is just an hour by speed boat from florida. there we went on a cool nature hike led by a nice laid back local with the coolest accent and saw some flora and fauna of the island and learned all the different cures that could be found by using the plants there.

this video just proves how windy it was at the front of the boat.


here's the tour guide talking about black beard and the history of the key.


more to come next time current news: we are settling in quite nicely. Cody is working hard between clases and his job and trying not to get sick at the moment. and as for me- tonight i go in for my orientation/training and will figure out when I will officially start my internship at the SMOA! I'll prolly stop posting here and use the website that we made for our wedding as our blog but i'll let ya'll know