The honeymoon was AMAZING ... actually, it was more than amazing, in fact it was so much more than amazing that I can't find a word adequate to describe how amazing it was so I'm just going to have to stick with the all caps AMAZING. Greece and Italy were beautiful, there was so much history, and it was quite the experience to be able to see so many spots that I have learned about throughout my schooling as a Philosophy major as well as places of biblical significance.
A particularly interesting thing to me was, apparently Peter the Disciple's bones are buried under St. Peter's Basilica, which is of course the catholic church in the Vatican City. The reason that this blew me away is that Jesus told Peter in the bible that he would be the rock that the church is built on. Now most people attribute that to the fact that Peter went around spreading the gospel and building up churches, which I also think is what Jesus was referring to, but I definitely thought it was interesting that the epicenter of the Catholic Church was LITERALLY built on top of Peter's bones. Crazy!
The food in both Italy and Greece were, of course, amazing, and we ate and drank ourselves silly as we ventured throughout those two countries.
When the honeymoon was over, Alex and I parted ways at the Philly Airport, and I went to CA and Alex went up to ND.(Side note: Alex and I have been together for over 4 years, have traveled all over the world together, and flown definitely over 10 times, each, in the last 2 years, and we have never flown a full round trip flight together. Military life.... am I right or what?)
My mom and I loaded up my car and we made our way to my next home for the next couple of years. We got to drive through beautiful Utah, and even got to drive through Yellowstone park which was an added bonus.
So what have we been doing since we got to Minot? Well I'll show you!
Alex learned how to mow the lawn. To this date he has mowed the lawn ... once.
I made this halloween wreath to hang on the door, but ...
... it flew away when all the snow and wind came shortly after we hung it up.
I stood in the snow and got to watch the planes take off one particularly frigid afternoon ...
I've been buying my produce at a local co-op which has been pretty cool, since fresh produce can be kind of pricy up here. The problem with this website? They usually offer one produce item in bulk, which I am tempted every time to buy. Once they offered 48 pounds of cucumbers for $20(!) so I ... learned how to pickle and can! I am currently trying to eat 25 lbs of tangerines before Christmas.
I got a job at a law firm downtown (yup DOWNTOWN) as a paralegal, and I have learned: a) my boss is an avid hunter b) caribou, aka reindeer, are very big and c) it is perfectly acceptable to have caribou heads mounted in a law office.
I went to my first hockey game(GO MINOTAUROS!) and while Alex had been to hockey games before, this was the first time either of us had seen a tooth ice skating.
We celebrated Channukah on the first night of Passover by making latkes, eating apples dipped with honey(wrong holiday but still delicious), watching "Eight Crazy Nights" and decorating dreidels.
... and finally, I saw my car read a negative temperature for the first time!
