The Move

Well, many people want to know all about our move. So here we go… We left from Sugar City last Wednesday July 27th and drove to Jackson where we flew out. Our plane was delayed 40 minutes so we got to sit outside longer with my family before had to check in. I held it together until we went through security. At that point I lost it. The airport in Jackson has been recently renovated but the didn’t have WiFi so Brian was pretty bummed about that.



Brian playing Ipad

We arrived in Chicago on time surprisingly. We got our rental car and were supposed to stay in Chicago that night but our movers called and said they needed us to either find a place to live by Friday morning or our stuff would go in to their storage for 3+ weeks. CAT paid for a realtor for us and she found a place we could move in right away that she could show us that night. So instead of driving to our hotel, we drove to Lafayette, IN.

On our way, the GPS took us dead through the middle of town and it seemed to take forever to get here. We think there is probably a better way to getting to and from Chicago but our Landlord says everyone takes the same route we did. The speed limit even on freeways here is like 55-65. NO ONE goes what the speed limit is! you have to go whatever everyone else is going, which is well over 75. It makes me nervous. There are no police on the roads but with our luck we will go along with traffic and be the ones to get a massive speeding ticket.

Our first day here we met our new landlord and got the house taken care of. I haven't taken any pictures yet because it still looks like a war zone. I will take some soon though. Today, I was a wreck. I did NOT want to be in this 'Hell Hole.' It is not pretty here. Brian tells me it is because they are having a major heat wave and no rain so everything is brown and ugly. I would second that. We wanted to try a good pizza place and the hotel lady told us to try Arnie's or Pizza King. We chose Arnie's. We put it in the GPS and it took us to a mini pizza place. It reminded me of the Craigo's that used to be in Broulims. The 'Mother Store' is across town somewhere. But it turned out ok because it just so happened to be right across from the mall. I tell brian that it was the best thing he could have done because they have a great Macy's and a Kohls in the mall.




Weird looking pizza but it was decent. Next time we want something more plain.


So Brian and I are really big Celebrity Apprentice Fans. This season the finally was to create 7-UP boxes and have a big party. Well the executives liked both boxes and put both of them in to production.... Well we hadn't seen them. So much for the production...

Well, when we went to Walmart (which is only like 2 minutes away from my house!) we saw the boxes!!! We had to take a picture.





Saturday we went to this 'Diesel and Gas Engine Show.' Brian was so excited. It was so hot it was MISERABLE!!! And I just have to say... They think Idaho is a bunch or Hill Billies??? Idaho is full with a bunch of class if you ask us. And I did have to take a picture of the potty :)







Sunday....
Well a lot of the brothers in the ward came up and said hi to us. There is actually an elderly couple on a mission from Star here. There is right outside of Eagle, ID :) To bad they got transferred a couple days ago. You know, everyone seemed nice enough but I still came away feeling like a worthless piece of flesh. People here are so educated it is not even funny. You feel like an idiot because your husband isn't working on his PhD and you didn't complete your masters and deciding whether to go on or not.

Here is our church



Sunday night we had nothing to do and we went for a drive. I can't tell you where because I don't even know which way is north around this place. It was much prettier out in the country. We found this race track and we are very excited to find some races that we could find to go watch.

Tuesday we decided to go in to Indianapolis. We were there in less than an hour. We went to the zoo and I loved it! Zoos are my favorite. It was very very hot. Am I every going to get used to this place??? There was a dolphin show that we went to. It was a nice venue but it is nothing compared to the show at Sea World.

After the zoo we thought we would go find the Brick Yard. They had a museum that we HAD to go to you know??? I went through in about ten minutes and just sat there and relaxed on a comfy chair while Brian enjoyed himself. I think he could have spent hours there! After that, we tried yet another pizza place. It is supposed to be one of the best in Indy. It was really good... but they messed our order up. They made it right though and we got a free extra pizza to take home with us which was our lunch yesterday.








Yesterday I went to a Zumba class. I miss Kelsey Harris my old zumba teacher!!! Wow... maybe zumba just hasn't caught on here?? It has inspired me to just get my our teaching certificate and teach my own class. Yesterday night was stake basketball night. To be honest I didn't want Brian to go. We don't have insurance this week until he starts work on Monday and I didn't have a good feeling about playing but last time I told him he couldn't play, due to a recent nose surgery.... I got in big trouble. So I didn't say anything and let him go. I figured we won't learn to like this place if we don't get involved and meet people. I said it was time to go and I got the 'Oh just one more game answer.' Well that one more game turned in to one more etc. Well we only played half of that game and came home early with another broken nose. Will this be another surgery nose??? We will find out next week I guess. I think that church ball is jungle ball anyways but especially after you have been playing for three hours. People get sloppy and that people we getting banged up everywhere. Oh well.... Live and learn I guess. His nose doesn't look too terribly crooked so it can't be that bad :)

As for today... Who knows what we will do. I try and be positive and don't have a set idea that I am going to hate the new day but I am having a really hard time. about noon it starts to hit me and I hate the evenings. Nothing to do and no one to do things with. It is too hot to be outside and this is the time when we would be in Idaho playing basketball or Botche ball or playing card games with family and friends? It is going to be a long day on Monday when I am all alone for the week.

Oh well.... another day at a time...