Lazy river

Okay, so I have lots of other pictures, but I choose to start with these because they are the most recent, and they are my favorites!  Ha ha.

This weekend was pretty crazy.  Needless to say, I got almost no studying done.  Luckily, this week has been pretty laid-back with the 4th of July coming up.  Yay for national holidays!  Friday I went to a bachelorette party for a girl in my class, and it ended up being great because I got to know a bunch of the other girls.  Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures, and I will have to wait until one of the other girls either posts theirs, or I beg them off someone!  I won't say much, but I will mention that there were penis-shaped straws involved!  Ha ha.  

The next morning I woke up to my friend inviting me to meet at the institute, and to bring a swim suit.  Intrigued, I met up at the institute, and we proceeded to drive out into the middle of Nebraska.  On the drive we were surrounded by quaint little towns, and rows and rows of cornfields.  I felt like I was in an M. Knight Shamylan movie, and I kept waiting for the aliens, or creepy plant infections to attack us!  However, we arrived at our destination safely, and I discovered that the plan for the day was to float down the Platt river on tubes!

Okay, so before our adventure began, we discovered these wind boats!  How cool is that?  I felt like we were in the bayou, or something.  If you have ever seen The Rescuers, that is exactly what these reminded me of.  I kept looking for Evinrude, but all I found were mosquitos!

Oh yes, this is David showing off his back-country hillbilly skills.  Ha ha, just kidding.  However, I thought this picture was hilarious!

This is Rae, my new friend from the ward!  Too bad she is only in Omaha for the summer...

This is a group photo - obviously.  That is me, David, Chris, Rae, Bernadette, and I don't remember the little girl's name.  Poor David is surrounded by girls.  Ha ha.  I don't know if he was upset, or just plain overwhelmed.  It is hard to tell from his face.

So the river trip was fun, but the Platt river is really wide, really shallow, and really slow.  We did find some slightly faster stretches, which was exciting, but for the most part it was just a very relaxing way to spend the day!  Too bad I came home with a super awesome sunburn on my back and shoulders!

I finished up the day with some extremely delicious Chinese fare contributed by the village green dental association.  I even made some tasty fried rice!  After that was Transformers on the IMAX screen.  It's good to be in Omaha!

The time has come...

Hey guys!

Okay, I haven't posted on this blog in forever, so the time has come.  Plus, so much has happened in the last month.  Woah.  I don't even know what to tell you about.

Major thing - I moved to Omaha, Nebraska about three weeks ago.  Crazy, huh?  Well me and my dad loaded up everything I own and drove a moving truck cross country.  We started at 7 am, and made it into Omaha by about 10:00 pm on Friday.  That's a solid 15 hours on the road.  Yeah, we didn't stop much.  For those of you who don't know, the drive is over 900 miles, so we felt like we had made pretty good time!  So my dad was kind enough to drive me out, but he had to make it back to Cedar, so he actually flew out Saturday afternoon.  To make things every so slightly more interesting, I couldn't move into my new place until the next Tuesday, meaning that I got to camp out at a hotel for about three days.  It was nice because I got to totally relax since surviving the massive attack of finals, but it was also extremely boring.  Bleh.  I was glad to finally be able to move into my new place!

I would like to send special thanks to the awesome dental students, and some random guy driving by, that stopped to help me move into my place!  I spent most of that first day unpacking and putting together furniture.  I single-handedly built a table, four chairs, a queen-sized bed frame, a desk, and a bunch of bookshelves.  It was an adventure!  So I live in a one-bedroom townhouse which consists of a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, living room, and unfinished basement.  I have turned it into a pretty sweet little place, and I took a couple of pictures just for you!

This is my kitchen.  This is a confusing picture, just because there is a giant mirror taking up the entire wall, which makes my kitchen look twice as big!  Seriously though, this kitchen is bigger than the one I used to share with Amanda, Mary-Ann, and Catherine!  Yep, this is also the table where I currently do all my studying.  Awesome!

This is me.  Yay.  Well, acutally this is me in my unfinished basement, complete with washer and dryer.  (Wow, I need to tell that story!)  Any ideas on what I should do with the basement?

Still in the basement!  I have set up a little study cave, and in an attempt to make it more appealing, have decorated the walls with beach-related posters.  Okay, these are actually pictures from old calenders that I have been collecting for years.

Finally, this is my living room.  That is not all of it, and these aren't the best pictures.  Oh well.  I am finally able to put my giant surfer poster in the front room!  I was recently told that I am obsessed with blue... you can't tell from this picture, but I do indeed have lots of blue decorating my place.

Well the last thing I'm going to put up for tonight is to let everyone know that I now have a room-mate named Michelle.  She is staying in my basement for now, just because she didn't really have a place to stay for the summer.  The situation is that she was in med school last year, but got sick a missed several weeks of her gross anatomy lab.  She is here for the summer retaking gross anatomy at Creighton.  Anyways, I just felt like I needed to help her out, especially since I have plenty of extra space, and I actually have a spare bed.  I don't know how permanent she is, because there were other girls in the ward offering to let her stay with them, and it's a little bit of a service project, because I'm currently not really charging her rent.  Any ideas on how I could ask her on this?

Well there is a lot else to tell, but I'm bored, and I don't have any more pictures to post.  So maybe next time!