Wednesday, September 30, 2009

The House




The living room and the kitchen. Woohoo!

We've been enjoying it here. We went to a Jazz Festival a couple of weeks ago at Lake George and enjoyed the scenery and the music. This last week we went to a free concert by the U.S. Army Field Band that was really good. We figured out we'll be able to make it home for Christmas (yeah!), so we're excited about that as well.

Richard's enjoying his job so far. We've been having a lot of rain, and not much change of leaves yet. The ward is great and so's life!

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

More pics...

Well, the apartment is starting to look like an apartment (yeah! we got internet!), but not clean enough to take pictures and post them yet, but I'll get there. The front room is pretty much finished and we're pretty happy with it, which is good because we're having the elders over for dinner tonight (they live in our same apartment complex!).

Saratoga Springs has very tight roads and is pretty compact--you can drive anywhere in town in about 5 minutes. We went to the city park a couple of days ago, and it was really big and nice. They have all these natural springs all over town that you can just drink from, and it's supposed to be really healthy or whatever. In actuality, they taste like sulfur and iron and they're gross (Richard may not agree with me on that one).

Also everywhere in town are metal horses that businesses have painted up to promote their particular shop. So we've seen horses with ballet dancers, sequined horses, horses with ice cream cones, and tons of other random ones.

The trees haven't really started changing colors yet, but when they do we'll be sure to post pictures. Enjoy these pictures of Niagara Falls--I took them both myself. :-) Later!

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

The second half of the trip


This is us in the Joseph Smith home, at the Kirtland temple, at the Whitney store, and a beautiful sunset on the Mississippi.

We have had a very blessed trip--practically no tourists everywhere we went, beautiful weather, and no car troubles. We spent a couple days in Nauvoo--so neat! Then we spent a couple days in Kirtland, a couple days in Niagara Falls, a couple days in Palmyra, and now we're in Saratoga Springs! We get to move in to our new apartment today. Woohoo! In fact, this will be short because the movers are here. Later!