Boise

So Boise Idaho. I like it. It was a cool experience. We drove up in Dee's truck, I sat in the front between Dee and Chayce and Briton sat in the back seat. We drove on the road with nothing but mountains and fields and listened to old school rock and country music, I have never felt so American in my life, maybe because I am not American.

In Boise it seemed like one of the quests was to find the best restaurant, the distillery won I think because we went there twice. We had some great food that week, I tell you!
When it came to working I did a lot of it. I was in charge of the sentencings we had scheduled so I read all the presentence reports and told Dee about it and sat in with the probation officer while he briefed Dee. It was very interesting and it felt like I maybe contributed a little at least. During the week we sentenced 9 out of 14 people in a big drug case including the two top guys so it was very interesting.

The night we were there we saw The Conspirator by Robert Redford, it was bad. and then we took a walk over to the stadium where a Boise football team plays. Apparently the turf there is blue so we had to go see it, the only problem is that this was around midnight and the stadium was locked and it was dark, so we just climbed the fence. No, we didn't trespass we just climbed up and looked in to see the grass, besides when a federal judge tells you to do something, you do it:) So when that adventure was over we started our walk back to the hotel and on the way Dee went an bought a lottery ticket to everyone. It was one of those where you scrape off 3x3 numbers and the total on each should be 7, 11 or 21, so I scraped of my two first lines... nothing then the last line and got 5, 1 and a....1...I think...so I scrape off how much money I would get and it says $3000, everyone cheers and says I won three thousand dollars...I kind of don't believe it, so Dee looks at the ticket and says: wait a minute...then it turns out that I had not scraped off the whole number and the last number at it was 13 not 1. so no win...but it was a little bit funny.

So now Im back in Slc and life is good, Ive been on a couple of dates if anyone is wondering but no, I am yet not engaged.

Ok so I guess it is time for me to update this thing again, seriously I don't even know what to write. My parents and sister have been here these last couple of weeks, since I came back from DC and it has been busy. I have still tried to go in to work as much as possible... It was great to have them here. We did all the touristy things one does here in SLC as well as meeting relatives and friends.

Now life is kind of back to normal again... Lately I have been thinking alot about what I want to do now that I am coming to an end of my studies, I will now announce any plans until I know what will happen but if things go as I feel at the moment then my life in this year will be very very exciting (and no, I am not getting married).

But speaking of getting married, my last companion is getting married and she has asked me to be her bridesmaid. I am so excited because I have never been a bridesmaid... I am seeing her tomorrow to plan the wedding which is in one month!! it will be fun!

The long wait is over and I am sincerely sorry you all have had to wait this long for me to update the blog. So, I was in Washington DC. I will just tell you all I did. I was given a private tour of The Capitol, went to the Botanic gardens, Native american museum, Mount Vernon (where George Washington lived), the natural history museum, American history museum, the holocaust museum, the white house, arlington cemetery, national art gallery, The temple, shopping, Library of Congress, Supreme court, Pentagon. On the thursday I met up with Dee and he showed me the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court. THAT WAS COOL! Not that the building was extraordinary or anything like that but just the fact that I got to see things that not a lot of people get to see. I got there and Dee had to have his fingerprints read and I had to lock in my phones. Dee had turned all the papers on his desk so I couldn't see what he was reading. The court room was locked and had several doors with bolts and locks and totally sound proof. He also showed other parts of the courthouse. In the cafeteria we met some important people and it was really cool to be there. Then we went over to the Capitol and he showed me the Senator part of it. We went to Senator Hatch's office. He wasn't there but I sat in his office and chilled.. haha.

Monuments I saw were Lincoln, Grant, Jefferson, Washington, Iwo Jima, Vietnam and thats all I can remember. I also met a lot of young single adults from church. I saw BYU games and spent time with people. I visited DC metro church and the Catholic church. I also went to a huge singles ward and met lots of great people.

I really enjoyed DC, I am contemplating going back to get a masters degree. I stayed with Megan from my mission. we had not met in 4 years and it felt like not time had passed! It was so great to spend time with her and her roommates were great too! I was a bit sad to leave, and I landed in SLC tuesday night and wednesday afternoon my parents and Bella came.

Now we have seen all the sights of SLC and been to conference and done stuff. They came to the courthouse and Dee showed them around and they said that that was the best part of the day. It is good to have them here. its intense because we do things all the time and going to work is kind of my relax time. Tonight I am going to another Jazz game and that will be fun. I will let you know how it is and now you know what I have been up to lately.

I am sitting at the kitchen Island and everyone else sits here too and I will tell you... it has taken a looooooong time to write all this because there have been many distractions. But it is fun. Life is pretty good.