Twilight!

So I recently have become obsessed with Twilight! I didnt start reading it until a few weeks ago and I fell in love with it... aka Edward!!

I am now on the third book... and I am reading it kind of slow because I know after this one there is only one left, and I dont want the saga to stop! But like most girls who read this book they fall in love with Edward and I sure as heck did! Although Bella sometimes bugs me in the book Edward can do NO wrong. As far as the movie goes... kinda disappointed although I thought Robert Pattinson was a good pick :) but I think I would have made a much better Bella.

Fun Filled Saturday!

We spend most of today downtown! Which I always love because it is full of new and exciting things! We went to Union Station in the afternoon. Union Station use to be the main train station in St Louis a long time ago, and they have now turned it into a mall, hotel, and a mini museum. It is really neat on the outside, they have left all of the original structure/architecture which gives it this really old 20's(or whatever decade it was built in) feel!! They also have a little area where you could rent paddle boats, and feed the enormous gold fish! After we were done exploring that we decided that we would treat our self to Hard Rock cafe (neither me or mike had ever eaten there). It of course had a really cool atmosphere and the food was pretty good too!

After lunch we then went down to Forest Park. They where doing a Shakespeare festival and that night they were going to be performing The Merry Wives of Windsor. It started at 8 but we got there way early (530) because we wanted good seats! We walked around the park for a bit while we waited and boy oh boy is it a nice park! Finally it was show time! It was very well done, I just wish I had been more familiar with the play, that way I could have sat back and enjoyed it instead of trying to piece everything together. But it was still a lot of fun! The only down side of the whole thing was that a spider some how crawled up on my hand which was gross, but thankfully it was small so I didnt make too much of a scene!

Take Me Out To A Ball Game!

We went to our first baseball game the Missouri Cardinals, the other weekend (it was my first Major League Baseball game so I was pretty excited)! We went with another couple that are in our ward (funny story about that... Mike just happened to have played hockey with the husband while he was up in Rexburg and he and his wife just happened to be doing summer sales in St Louis, so that is nice to have so friends). Earlier that week I had found a really inexpensive Cardinals jersey at Wal-Mart so I was excited to wear that to the game. The game wasnt very exciting the Cardinals lost 0-1 but we did get to see the other team hit a home run. We of course had to eat a hot dog for lunch and it was a mighty good hot dog too! It was a Nathans hot dog and coast us 6 bucks a pop for one! But ya just have to have a hot dog a baseball game (at least for your first time). We went down to the game with no tickets and Mike and Steven (the husband of the other couple) just planned on getting them from scalpers (scary)! And it was scary they are all up in your face trying to bargain with you. Im glad Mike was there and they werent all up in my face because yea they were scary. But we got two tickets for 20 bucks!! We are hoping that we will get to see quite a few games while we are here!

Forest Park

Our first Saturday here we went down to Forest Park which is huge park in down town St Louis. They have so much to do in this park it is kinda crazy! They have museums, shops, places to rent boats, swimming, tennis courts, a zoo, and everything else you could ever want in a park (no joke). We decided that we would walk around the park and then go and explore the zoo (which is free). The zoo was really cool and big we didnt even get to see the whole thing before it was closing, so we will have to go back one of these days and finish it. After the zoo we walked around a little more and went up to where the museum is. It was closing so we decided that we would just walk around. We say some people all decked out in Renaissance gear and they were jousting (you dont see that everyday). They were all serious about it too which made it even funnier. Since it was a Saturday the park was buzzing with people but because it is so big it didnt seem crowded at all. It was a beautiful day and we had lots of fun!

The Drive Part 2

We spent about a week in Grand Forks just hanging around and relaxing. Mike was suppose to take his last test for Edward Jones but he put it off a week because he didnt feel like he had gotten enough time studying (he ended up passing it!) We had a really nice reception at one of the local hotels there. A lot of Mikes family came down for it so it was nice to meet more of his family. I wore a really cute dress and had hot pink heels!! It was a lot of fun.

Mikes parents and his Uncle Eric decided that they would help us move down there (so very nice). We bought a bed while we were in Grand Forks (an amazing pillow top bed). But other then that we planned on finding most of our furniture down there. We left Monday morning and planned on making the trip in two days. Drive mostly Monday and then have only about 3 hours on Tuesday. The drive went much more smoothly this time around! It helped that Mike drove most of the way so I could just lay back and relax. Funny Story...When we got to the actually Missouri state line sign we had put the camera on top of the car and ran to the sign before the picture took and right as the picture was taking a BIG semi truck drove by and the wind for it knocked the camera off the car and this is the picture we got as the camera was falling... not as bad as it could have been.
When we made it to St Louis we were all surprised at how green it was here! I never thought that Missouri was so lush! Everything was so green and pretty! Our apartment is way nice and is in a really good part of town (what a relief). Mike works about a mile and half away so he can come home for lunch which is nice. Mikes parents stayed for about 3 days after we got here to help us move in. It was nice to have there help.

The Drive Part 1

So we got kinda a late start on Sunday so we didnt get nearly as far as we wanted.On our way through Montana we saw this bison on the side of the road! It was crazy it was just hang out right on the side of the road eat grass. I dont think I have ever seen on so up close other then in like a zoo. So I just had to stop and get a picture (actually I made Mike take the picture I didnt want to get too close to it just in case). But by the time it got dark the deer were really starting to jump out! Which scares me to death!! So we decided to stay over night in Montana somewhere.

The next day we got up early and started out again. We had a long day ahead of us. Mike wanted to make it to North Dakota that day so that meant about 12 hours of driving!! We were both in separate cars so that made it kinda boring to not have anyone to talk to. But Mike had gotten me Twilight on audio book (he was convinced I would love it, I was not, although in the end I have to say I love Edward!) so that made the time go faster for me. Everything was going just great, we stopped at the Bad Lands to stretch our legs and I had never seen them before so that was pretty cool. About 15 minutes out of Bismark (about 5 hours from Grand Forks) I blew a tire!!! It scared the crap out of me!!! It was a back one luckily so I didnt lose control I pretty much just came to a very abrupt stop. Mike was a head of me and I tried to get his attention but no luck, then I tried calling him but of course he was not answering. But finally he realized that I was no longer behind him! So finally when he found me we put the spare tire on (which was quite the task seeing how we had just gotten the car and had no idea where it was and then we realized that in order to get it we had to unpack the entire trunk!!) But finally we got it on and made the 15 minute drive to Bismark and stayed there over night. It was nice that we got a break because five more hours of driving would have been a killer! The next morning we got up and got the tire fixed (which took forever and was $$) and made our way to Grand Forks! We finally made it!!

Saying Bye

So on April 19 we were finishing packing up and saying bye to Rexburg. I never thought leaving Rexburg would be so hard! My last day at work was Saturday the 18 which was sad I had really grown to love my job and the people I worked with (what an amazing bunch)!

We started packing about a week before we were planning on leaving because Mike was studying to take a BIG Edward Jones test (which he passed) and I was still working at the Financial Aid Office, so we didnt have a whole lot of spare time to pack. It was a disaster packing! You never realize how much junk you have until you pack. It was unbelievable all the stuff we had in our apartment.
Mikes truck was unbelievably packed down and so was our car. Every little nook and cranny was packed with something. We did sadly have to leave some stuff behind. But thankfully we hadnt yet gotten any furniture so we didnt have to drag that along on our journey. Once we finally got everything packed up and cleaned we headed out. I shed a few tears leaving but not too many. Rexburg had really become a place I had come to love (never thought I would say that). So many great things had happened to me in Rexburg and I meet some really great people, I will miss it!
Bye Bye Rexburg!

Not Faithful!!

So I totally have not been faithful at keeping this up..that is why until now I havent added anyone or anything but I need to get better at this because so far we have done some way awesome things! We have been all over the place in the last month or so. Idaho...Montana...North Dakota...South Dakota...Ohio...Kansas...and finally Missouri our home sweet home... for now.