Becky, Jared and Sarah
Archive for August, 2009
End of Summer Fun
Aug 27th
I have been wanting to go to Lagoon all summer and we have been putting it off because of all sorts of things that come up. Well we finally decided to go. I even went online to check the times. So yesterday, Wednesday, we pack up our stuff and drive to Farmington (over an hours’ drive) only to be greeted by a sign saying Lagoon Closed. We couldn’t believe it! We looked on their website and everything. We talked to a guard at the employee gate and they said that it was closed because school started and it would only be open on weekends. Well… school hadn’t started for us yet. Needless to say we were pretty disappointed. So, we started to drive home. I didn’t want to waste all the time we have driven and do nothing, so started thinking about all the stuff we could do in Salt Lake. We decided to go to the zoo.
But first we had lunch at Costa Vida. YUM!
The zoo was pretty fun.
We saw lions (drinking fountains), tigers and bears, oh my. We have never been to the zoo as a couple. Jared’s favorite animal was the Red Panda also known as the Firefox. It made us want to watch Kung Fu Panda again since Shifu is a Red Panda. And even though they were boring, he liked the Snow Leopard for the same reason.
He also liked the penguins.
The turtle was pretty fun too.
I liked the giraffes
It was hot so we got some snow cones.
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Since there was a geocache within walking distance we had to find it. (SPOILER ALERT, this will give the location of a geocache away)
Also we stopped by This is the Place Monument and just looked around. If you don’t know your LDS/Utah history. It is the place where Brigham Young said “This is the right place.” This was important because it meant that after 1,300 miles of walking or riding in a covered wagon they were finally at their destination.
Then on our way home we went to IKEA and looked around. It was Jared’s suggestion. I got ideas of how I am going to decorate my future home. We also got some more chocolate and meatballs. If you haven’t tried their chocolate and meatballs with cream sauce (not together) they are delicious.
Then to finish our day we got a Redbox movie and watched it (Escape to Witch Mountain).
So, even though we didn’t get to go to Lagoon we had an amazing day.
P.S. For more pictures click on the “pictures” tab on the top
Service Opportunity
Aug 13th
We are moving!
When: This Saturday 9 AM – Finish (no longer than 2:30 because we have work at 3:00) I hope to start cleaning around 11:30ish
Where: My Grandpa’s house (on 2722 W Center St. on the Utah Lake side of the freeway)
Why: My Grandpa has been in ill health so we are going to take care of the house and yard and fix it up a bit.
How: WITH YOUR HELP! If you are available this Saturday morning, please let us know or just show up.
Thank You!!
Pasco Fun So Far
Aug 7th
We’ve done a ton of stuff in Washington so far and wanted to write it all down before we forget.
Geocaching
Of course, the first thing I need to talk about is the geocaches we’ve found. Becky’s mom had read about some of our geocaching adventures on our blog and was curious as to exactly what it was and where you found them and everything. So we took her to a few caches close to where they live (and by close, we’re talking 30 minutes away closer to town around the Wal-Mart). We found a cache in the middle of a sage brush field, and we found one in more sage brush by a Lowe’s, and found a skirt-lifter behind a grocery store. So she got a pretty good idea of the different kinds of finds there are out there. She thought it was pretty fun.
We returned home and told Becky’s dad about the caches we found and he wanted to try finding some. I told him there was one that we could only get with four-wheelers. I told him the area the cache was hidden, and he said he was going to take us on a trip there anyway. So the next day we went out on a four-wheeler trip to find this very remote cache (Green Island GC19WCE). It took us a few minutes to find it, but sure enough, it was there. We all signed the log and continued on our trip.
The last notable cache we came across was a micro (almost a nano). We spent a decent amount of time finding this one. The day before, we found a cache in a cement barrier close to the entrance of a freeway. When we got to the cache location, we found the same cement barriers there so I automatically thought it was in there. So we looked around and couldn’t find anything. Then I took a second look at the GPS and we were about 20 feet away from it. So I moved 20 feet and was at this tree. We looked all over the tree and couldn’t find it. Then we looked all over the cement barricades again. Then went back to the tree. As I was walking around the tree, I was looking down at the GPS, looked up, and spotted it. Here’s how small this bad boy was.
Family Fun Times
As you already know, we went four-wheeling. We did some crazy stuff on them. After we found the geocache, we played in the mud by the river. Katie got stuck in the mud so we took our shoes off and helped get it un-stuck.
Then we continued on and found a nice hill to try the four wheel drive system on the machines. We went up some pretty steep hills. Becky said one time I was only on two wheels for a few seconds!
Then I actually got to do something productive (besides playing) out here. Somehow I found out Amy’s computer had died. So I offered to take a look at it. Somehow, Windows had corrupted itself and pretty much had to be reinstalled since it wasn’t offering any options to try and repair the system files. She had taken it or had someone look at it before and they said they couldn’t do anything for her. Fortunately, they gave her an external enclosure. I took the hard drive out of her laptop, put it in the enclosure, and used my Mac to read all her files. I was able to recover everything she wanted: documents, pictures, music, movies, that sort of thing. Fortunately #2, she had the operating system recovery CD. So I put the hard drive back into her computer and reinstalled the OS. Then I installed all the software and updates and put all the files back on her computer. She was so surprised and delighted at what I had done that she offered to take us to lunch, so we went to Mongolian Grill!
Then you already should know about my ER visit. So that’s all the good times for now (at least that we have pictures of!)
Getting All Better
Aug 6th
After spending 3 hours in the ER, I was handed a prescription for two antibiotics and told that if the swelling goes outside this purple line (they drew around my current swelling) then I should come back for some IV antibiotics. (Yeah, 3 hours for that…) So we leave the hospital around 12:45. At this point, I’m really frustrated that I waited that long when they could have had me out of there in no time that I want to do something fun. So I remembered this geocache by the Timpanogos Regional Medical Center back home and thought that someone might have left a geocache by this hospital. Turns out they did! (Geocaching App for the iPhone strikes again!)
So we went across the street, Becky got out and found it (since I had a gimp foot at the time). Someone placed it when they were at the hospital when their baby was born, so it was a camo taped baby bottle. We signed the log, returned it, and went in search of a pharmacy that was open. We were seeing if there were some around Pasco, and I told Bex to go to one around there. We get there, and it’s not a 24 hour pharmacy. So then I looked up a 24 hour pharmacy and it’s in Kennewick. So to make a long story short, due to very recent construction around that area, the iPhone wasn’t up to date on its directions and we took a few wrong turns. But eventually we found it! I took my first dose right there in the store and we made it back home around 2:30 AM. Exhausted, we went to bed and were out pretty fast.
The next morning, I woke up around 10 AM. Nicia actually woke me up by calling Becky’s phone. Then I realized what time it was and thought I’d better get up and take my medicines. But fortunately, my foot wasn’t in agonizing pain! It was only dully sore. So thankfully, I’m on the mend and should be perfectly fine. You can see how bad my foot got on the previous post, but as of this afternoon, this is how my foot is looking.
Emergency Room
Aug 5th
That’s right, baby, I’m blogging from the ER! So as you can tell from the picture my right foot is super swollen and in a TON of pain. I was going to go tomorrow but the pain is showing no evidence of subsiding. Anyway, the last time my foot felt like this was when it was infected, so I decided I might as well go in since I’m pretty sure it’s infected. So I’m expecting the IV’s of antibiotics and the works. The nice thing is that we’re at the hospital Becky was born at! Woohoo! (Can you tell I’m having fun?) Anyway, this will probably cut Mt. Rainier out of our vacation since I can’t go hiking. I promise a nice uplifting blog tomorrow.
