Oh the weather outside is frightful...

Dead week is officially over! Hooray! That means two finals to go until break :). This past weekend was the last weekend that my friend Emily will spend at UW so we decided to make it count! Friday night everyone hung out and watched movies. Saturday we (Brandon, Emily, Kali, Matt, Tom, and I) went to the Hobo Hot Springs in Saratoga (close to a two hour drive from Laramie) to relax before the upcoming finals week. We went back to the dorms, cleaned off the rotten-egg smell and went to dinner at Chili's. It was really nice to go out and eat! After dinner, we went back to the dorms to layer-up. Saturday night we went to Vedauwoo and built a campfire in the snow. We had a great time exploring the forest, dancing around the fire, and goofing around. It was a great grand-finale for the first semester of college! Sunday we are all going to be studying for finals... That's all for now, I'll be in Denver on Friday- yay!

<- Matt's car, it snowed the entire time we were at Vedauwoo..

<- The sign by our spot
<- Watch out for Yeti's that might live beyond the gate! <- Thank goodness for a warm fire!

December Here I Come!

Thanksgiving break was nice. I got to spend time with family and friends for 5 days in the tropical paradise of Colorado- it is way warmer there than in Laramie. I dog-sat Nikki, a 5 month old lab, for my neighbors the entire break. I got to ride Landi and Grigio for the first time- I couldn't believe how big Landi has gotten! It was great.
<-Nikki liked the movie! Now I'm back up in Laramie. There is one week of class and one week of finals until break. I am really excited to see people over break and to go to Illinois!

Masquerade & The Fray

Last weekend, Friday the 13th I went to my friend Karl's house for a semi-formal masquerade themed dinner party. It was fantastic to eat "real food" again and see friends from Colorado. We had a great meal of scallops, edamame, twice-baked potatoes, and pork.

Kat, Analisa (a friend from CSU), and me

Last night, Saturday the 21st I went to the Fray concert, yes the Fray know where Laramie is, and yes Laramie pulled off an amazing concert!! It was incredible and a ton of fun!

Kat and me.

Kali and me... I think she enjoyed her first concert!

THE FRAY!!!

Well, sorry this is so short, I will try to write more after Thanksgiving break!

1st Blog

So here it is, my first blog! I decided that rather than sporadically sending emails and pictures, I will just post them up here :).

Well it is Monday (ugh) which meant 8:00am nursing class which entailed a 15 minute walk in what I like to call the arctic tundra (good old Wyoming fails at snow removal... they prefer to "polish the snow" with a large brushing machine which really just exposes the ice- I've seen some awesome falls, and lends to everyone walking in the foot and a half deep snow rather than chancing it on the ice. Oh and yeah arctic tundra also includes the part where it was 3 degrees outside at 8 this morning!) All is well now though because the sun came out! In a few days we'll be living on the beach again with weather in the 30s and sand EVERYWHERE because the solution to the ice is sand... lots of sand. Well, you just have to appreciate it!

There is riding practice tonight at 7:00pm. We are all planning on bundling up like boy in A Christmas Story and hoping to stay somewhat warm.

The end.

*Photo "there are some kinds of moments that take your breath away" credit to Becca Skinner.