"slowly, but surely"

(as my sweet mimi would say), we are getting settled in to our new home. the adjustment has not been super easy. this morning might have earned the award for the hardest yet: my mom and ruth left for home. or actually, we left for school. i decided to come hang out at the seminary while ryan is in class today, since mom and ruth had to leave around the same time...otherwise i might have laid on our couch and cried the day away! there is a little cafe here at the school that has a little of this and a little of that plus wireless internet (which we are only "borrowing" at our house right now-and it doesn't work too great...). anyway, i decided this is the perfect time to update the old blog! =) with my mom and fufster leaving, it really made it more real that we are staying here. with them here, it was kind of like maybe we were on a vacation or something (i know, that sounds a little odd...). but we are here for good for a while...with no family near, for now. which is very sad...
i had a strange thought as we were driving to the school this morning. my first thought was, "well, it's not like we are moving to guatemala or africa or something..." (or as scott said told my mom, "at least we aren't going to jail!") then almost as soon as i had that thought, i had another, "well, it could just be that this is going to make another move easier for us." who knows? only the Lord....
anyway, we have found some neat places around here.. and, of course, we took pictures here and there...
we went downtown on our way to take nick to the airport on sunday and walked around a bit. we found this great little pizzaria that ended up being just great!:






we also went to eat at the local melting pot in celebration of my birthday (which is still a week away). it was in this really old building that used to be the public library, then the city jail, and then the melting pot! the atmosphere had the potential of being really cool, but our waiter was a little on the awkward/creepy side...so the experience turned out being not that wonderful. plus, we couldn't get reservations until 9:15, so we were all tired. but, it was a fun to be with everyone, all the same...





by the way, the weather here is amazing today! not a cloud in the sky and about 60 degrees...it's wonderful!!!

more to come later...