Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas

On June 29, after loading our stuff and shipping it off to Texas, we moved on to Idaho. We arrived in Rexburg Monday night and then left for Island Park the next day. On the way my mom, siblings, and Dianna and I stopped to site see some beautiful waterfalls (Mesa Falls I believe). We found this old, abandoned mining tunnel thing that we hiked through. We then went to get dinner at a little place called Pond's Lodge. It turned out that we were like the seventh big party that walked in during the previous half hour and there were only three people working the whole restaurant. After about 20 minutes without water or even a hello we grabbed the waitress and offered to help. She actually said yes, so Dianna, Tini and I jumped up and started busing tables and washing dishes. With our help, we got our dinner in about 40 minutes which also meant that everyone else in the restaurant was fed as well. As a thank you the waitress split our bill in half. This was a once in a life time experience - so fun!

We spent three days in Island Park riding, biking, playing board games, and eating. We had a lot of fun with Dianna's Grandparents and cousins from Boise. Katy and Julie also joined us briefly for some good fun. We went back to Rexburg for a day to celebrate my sister Katy's birthday and then we went back up to Island Park until Saturday night. Saturday we floated the river and got ridiculous sun burns. But it was still a lot of fun. We spent Sunday with the family in Rexburg and then early Monday we left for Dallas.

We stayed Monday night in Colorado Springs with Dianna's sister Melissa. We walked around downtown and visited for a little while. On Tuesday we drove the rest of the way and had a stop in Wichita Falls to visit an old friend. Between Wichita Falls and Dallas (only about 150 miles) we got slammed by a serious thunderstorm and we thought we were going to get washed right off the road. Luckily we made it ok to Dallas and stayed in a hotel Tuesday night.

Early Wednesday we started our move into our new apartment. A good four days later we had mostly settled in and it was time for me to fly to Chicago for training.