So I've been quite busy lately and have thoroughly neglected my new blog...no great loss I suppose. We moved to a new, larger, tiny one bedroom apartment the end of July, and we are enjoying it very much. So far I have only had to sell one kidney to cover rent. I spent the first week of August in Boston at an LPL conference...that was alot of fun. I highly recommend it as a good place to visit...it was so freaking muggy there though, it was ridiculous. But all of the people we ran into were extremely nice. They talk your ear off (esp the cab drivers) and they have wicked awesome accents to boot. Then Jess and I spent a week in the middle of August up in Idaho...It was great to get back home after a year and see everyone. Or at least almost everyone. I realized that I really missed the whole small-town feel of Cd'A. The day after we got in we just walked around downtown and I kept running into old friends...that just doesn't happen in SD. My body decided that since I wasn't working it was an okay time to finally get sick, so I ended up wasting a whole day in bed. But we still crammed alot in, and we got to go to my cousin Holly's wedding before we left too. All in all a good break. I didn't really have time to take alot of pictures back home, and we really only had one day in Boston to bum around...but here are a few quick visual highlites...
Below left is the balcony of the old statehouse where Bostonians had their copy of the Declaration of Independence read to them (the "Boston Massacre" occurred about 20 yards in front of this building. - Below right is, well, Paul Revere's grave...
Above left is the steeple of the Old North Church (Christ Church) where Robert Newman hung two lanterns to signal Paul Revere - And above right is the pulpit inside the church (Charles Wesley once preached there.)
We had oysters on the half shell at the Union Oyster House - the oldest continuously running restaurant in the states...
And we had some drinks at the Bell In Hand - the oldest tavern in the states...
And one of the keynote speakers at the conference was good old George H. W. So that was pretty cool. He's looking pretty old though. Anyway...I'll make a folder on myspace and post these and others. I'm definitely in the market for a better camera before we go to Israel next month....How many kidneys does a body have again?
