Snow and Ice

Last week I went on a road trip with a bunch of friends up to the beautiful land of Idaho. No, we didn't go to Cache Valley, but Caldwell and McCall are almost as good. Every year there is an ice sculpture contest in McCall. They bring in these huge blocks of ice and carve amazing sculptures with them. Heidi's from Caldwell and her family goes to the festival every year, so we loaded a couple of cars with lots of fun people and drove the 6 hours up to her house.

I was so sick the week before and almost didn't go. But luckily Heidi is very persuasive and convinced me that I should go and that no one else would get sick (she lied...pretty much everyone got sick! Oops!) So I packed a lot of medicine and sucked on cough drops the whole weekend, and I'm so glad I went.

The sculptures were awesome! The theme this year was "Fantasy Land" so there were lots of castles and dragons, and even a life-sized Candyland board game! I love road trips! What a fun weekend!

Crash Landing

Coming back to the real world is hard! It's a lot harder than I thought it would be. Getting back into school and work just don't seem quite as exciting when there are no field trips to look forward to. Thank goodness for family and good friends who will listen to all my stories. :) I really miss Jerusalem a lot. It definately holds a special place in my heart. I sometimes feel like I've crash landed back into real life. It's definately been bumpy, but it's starting to smooth out now. This weekend I was able to go home and talk in church about Jerusalem - it was scary, but worth it, because I LOVE talking about it - just in case you couldn't tell. :) PLUS I went skiing up at Beaver with Kev. Definately worth a trip home. Thanks Mom and Dad for the passes for Christmas. It was an awesome day skiing and I'm extremely sore right now. So all in all, a great weekend home.

I found out that the JC group that is over there right now set off for Egypt today, so in honor of Egypt...here's more pictures. :)

Heidi, Morgan, and Me at our Egypt dress us night in Luxor.

Steven, Heidi, and Me - We look so Egyptian!

PYRAMIDS!!!!!

:) :) Derek got a little jealous.. :)

I LOVE EGYPT!!!!

Pictures!

I'm so happy to report that my computer is finally letting me upload pictures!! It was being so weird the last little while and wasn't letting me put any pics on my blog...that might have something to do with the fact that it seriously has no memory left. :( BUT my wonderful brother-in-law Steve helped me move my pictures onto CD's to free up space on my computer (Thanks Steve!!) and now my computer is working the right way again and I can share my pictures! (but knock on wood, just in case...)


So here is the beautiful land I called home for almost 4 months. I'll put more pictures up when I get more time, but I had to put some up now, especially for Angie. :)

This last one is me and Heidi on the top floor of the Jerusalem Center. What a beautiful city!!