A Good Week

Well, Joe just left me to spend the week in Logan, UT to take a short course in stream restoration at Utah State. While he spends 13 hours a day learning how to restore streams to their naturally beautiful and environmentally friendly state, I will spend 12 hours a day saving lives and hanging out with crazy people in the ER. I am definitely going to miss my wonderful husband. Hopefully the awesome week that we spent together last week will hold me over until he returns home on Friday.

Since I moved to Provo 6 years ago, knowing that I wouldn't live here forever, I started creating a list of things that I absolutely wanted to do before we leave. One of those things was to snorkel in the Homestead Crater in Midway, UT. On Tuesday, this lofty dream came to fruition. With our good friends Chad and Sara Tibbits, we put on our flippers and masks and snorkeled in the 65 foot deep natural crater, filled with 96 degree mineral water. This crater is the famous scuba certification site in Utah, and I am slightly embarrassed to admit that I believed reports that at the bottom of the crater lives a large fresh water shark. When I realized that what I was actually snorkeling in was more of a giant hot tub sitting under a 90 foot limestone beehive, I was only a little disappointed.

On Thursday, we had the luck of attending a Brian Regan comedy show with Amanda and Pete Nettisheim and our good friend Tim Whiting (who just moved to D.C. . . we will miss you Tim!). Brian Regan is one funny man.

The rest of our week was spent camping in our living room, with every blanket we own (which is a lot of blankets) spread out on the floor, falling asleep watching the Olympics (and cheering particularly hard for the US swim team with Dara Torres, Jason Lezak, Michael Phelps, and company). GO WORLD!!!