LOOONG ROAD TRIP

Matt and I took a very long road trip to visit friends and family before we headed off to Texas. I apologize for the extremely long post this time, but I couldn't cut out anymore pictures than I already did!

We started off the trip in EDH. Matt did an Open Water Swimming Race at Folsom Lake one morning. As you can see it was quite smokey because of all the fires (and this was on a good day).

Matt came in 3rd in his division!

We were able to see the Ricks' who came up for a visit. We went wake boarding with them, and then played a little croquet. I was the winner, but Dave came in a close second!

I had to put this one up because I finally got in and out of the wake!

We spent some time in San Francisco, and visited our good friends the Robarge's. Here's a couple of pictures of us on top of a 24 story roof, where Jensen and Erika live. They were nice enough to let us spend the night with them.

You can tell Matt and Jensen missed each other.

Erika took us on a lovely tour of San Francisco the next morning. We went to the Golden Gate Bridge (hence the picture), Golden Gate Park, Ocean Beach, Alamo Square, saw the Painted Ladies, Haight and Ashbury, and Union Square. It was quite the fun filled morning!

That afternoon we met up with the rest of the Harrison Clan and went to Alcatraz and a Giants game. (Also, I celebrated Canada Day by wearing my "Canadian Hockey Rocks!" T-shirt).

The Giants won, so it was a good end to a great day!

Fourth of July in Whitehawk, CA (Grandparents house). I went horseback riding that morning with some of the girls. This is my horse Raven.

Then Matt went golfing that afternoon with the boys. Only after Ken had been helicoptered to the hospital for breaking both the bones in his lower right leg. (It wasn't the best fourth of July ever).

We proceeded from Whitehawk to Salem, OR to visit my family this time. One morning Matt, Jeff and I went to the driving range, and apparently I needed a little help :)

My family along with my cousins family went to my favourite beach, Pacific City. We all climbed the sand dune and then the boys decided to jump off the top.

Us on top of the dune.

He was trying to be funny, but I don't think my aunt and little cousins thought he was very funny at all.

One fine day we traveled down to Eugene, OR to spend a day with the Smiths and their adorable little boy Spencer. We had a lot of fun visiting them and are sad we won't see them again for a long time. We went miniature golfing, ate lots of good food, and spent a lot of time playing with Spencer. He was my favourite, sorry Steve and Marissa.

We pretended Spencer was ours for this picture.

The Smiths and the Harrisons!

We ended the long trip back in Utah, where my family had traveled out to to take Jeff into the MTC. He is going to Samoa. Again we went miniature golfing (Matt really likes it). My mom killed us all.

Well, that's the end of our long road trip, and now we're in Texas so I'll try my best to keep everyone updated on med school and teaching and life in general!

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!