Moving...

So starting tomorrow we will be homeless for about 3 weeks! In order to break our contract here at our apartment we would have had to have paid $1700! No thank you! To get out of that fee we found someone to take over our contract. The only way they wanted it is if we moved out on July 18th (tomorrow). So that puts us out almost 2 weeks before planned.

Our plan is to squeeze all of our belongings into a 6'x12' U-haul trailer to be pulled by Andrew's truck, and I will follow behind in our car. We're alloted 12 days for the flat fee to use the trailer and $20 each additional day we need, which sure beats paying the $1700 to our apartment management! We'll stay at Andrew's grandparents for a week here in Washington while Andrew finishes up some things at work and I have my last doctor's appointment . Then we will hit the road and head to Idaho and stay with an aunt and uncle for 2 nights. Then it is on to Provo to stay with Freddie and Laura for a week! Then Andrew's sister Jessica is getting married in Salt Lake the first week in August so we'll stay up in Salt Lake with Andrew's parents. Then it's on to Ohio for law school! Woohoo, sounds like fun, right? So I'll be back to the blogging world sometime around mid-August! See ya then!

Andrew's birthday and a Salmon Bake

Like usual, I have a couple of things to catch up on...

First is Andrew's birthday. In his grandparent's ward they had an auction type of thing and they won a boat ride on Puget Sound. They decided to invite Andrew and me and make it a birthday celebration. So on Andrew's birthday, June 27th, we went out on the Johnson's boat on Puget Sound. It was a beautiful day! It was a little bit windy, but at least the sun was shining!

Mt. Rainier

Here's a picture of Andrew's grandparents, and then me and Andrew.

We rode up to Gig Harbor and had lunch at Anthony's right on the shore. It was delicious!

We had some cake and ice cream at Andrew's grandparents with some of of Andrew's cousins and aunt and uncle. I got Andrew a sheet birthday cake because that's his favorite.

For 4th of July we had a ward pancake breakfast. It was a rainy day so after breakfast we were looking for something to do inside. Andrew had the great idea to go to Wal-mart and buy a puzzle. It was actually really fun to spend the day working on a puzzle, I kind of felt like a little kid during the lazy days of summer. Later on in the evening we went over to a friend's house for some dinner and fireworks.

On Saturday after 4th of July we were looking for something fun to do around Washington and found an annual Salmon Bake on Anderson Island, a tiny little island about 5 miles by 3 miles. We did a little research and found out we drive up to Steilacoom and take the ferry over to the Island. Rather than paying 18 bucks to take our car over on the ferry with us we decided we would just go over as pedestrians and walk to the Salmon Bake once we were on the Island --according to mapquest it was about a mile from where the ferry docks. Well we got on the ferry and noticed some other pedestrians so we thought "ok, cool, other people will be walking to the festival too." Wrong. When we got to the Island they had people waiting to pick them up, or they had bikes, or some other means of getting to where they were going. So there I was, 6 months pregnant and wearing flip flops, headed off on our hike to the Salmon Bake. It turned out to be uphill about half of the way, and it ended up being more like a mile and a half, AND it was drizzling. The walk back to the ferry after the Salmon Bake wasn't as bad. It sure made for a fun little adventure! Here are some pictures...

Here we are on the ferry-notice the cloudy sky :)



Can you tell how excited we were to finally have reached our destination?? I think Andrew captured me mid-jump in the air.



The long anticipated Salmon platter


I really thought I was going to have to use one of the old school outhouses...luckily they had something a little more substantial.


Headed back to the ferry


Here comes the ferry!