Summer Freedom

Since I finished up at school the end of May Matt and I have done a lot of playing! First, for Memorial weekend we went camping with a couple in our ward to Flaming Gorge, Utah. It was a little cold at night but at least it didn't rain on us. We had a lot of fun biking around and cooking in the Dutch Oven. Then we took about a day to rest before we headed to Arizona with another set of friends to backpack into Havasupai. Havasupai is an Indian Reservation in the middle of nowhere. It's a 10 mile, one way, backpack trip to the campground (which was definitely harder than I liked), but once we got there we got to play in turqouise pools, and waterfalls, and rope swings and had a good time. We got back from Arizona on a Sunday evening and promptly left at 5am the next morning to Dallas, Texas to find an apartment. Which we did! We spent a couple of days looking at dozens of apartment buildings (at least it felt like dozens) but we found the one we liked best and we're really excited to actually have a place to live when we move out there. Since we've been back from Dallas Matt has been training for his triathlon, which is in a week, and I've been trying to enjoy my time off.

Lone Star State *

Matt and I have finally made a decision on Medical School and it looks like we're headed to the Lone Star State, in Dallas Texas. I was able to get a teaching job just outside Dallas in Irving. I will teach high school U.S. History again this year, which is probably my favourite subject to teach. Matt and I are excited to have a definite idea of where we are going to be for the next four, and we're definitely excited how low the tuition will be for him. We're going to head out to Dallas in June to look for housing and so I can sign some paper work at the high school. It will be an exciting new adventure and a big difference from the freezing cold of Utah that we're used to!