Internet...Hooray!

We finally have internet...hooray!  It was a very difficult process, that's for sure, but we got it worked out.  So now we can keep our blog a little bit more up to date instead of blogging once every three weeks!

Thank you!

We want to thank everyone that came to help us move out of our apartment in Murray: Marla, Dustin, Merideth and Colby, Sharon and Dee, Darin, Alicia, Garrett, and Cole, and Loren. It went very fast, we appreciate everyone taking the time to come help us, and so we could see you all before we left. We were also incredibly blessed to have Derek's parents, Sharon and Dee, fly out to help us move into our apartment; We could not have done it without them. They helped us move in, and get settled, but they were also there for moral support. After we got settled we spent Friday and Saturday site seeing around the city. In the two days we: Walked through chinatown and Little Italy, walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, rode the subway a lot, World Trade Center Site, took the ferry to Staten Island and saw the Statue of Liberty, walked through Central Park, went through a session together at the Manhattan Temple, saw the Lion King on Broadway and dinner at Hard Rock Cafe at Times Square afterward. We walked up and down Times Square, around the Rockafeller Center, and 5th Ave. Jamie and Mom had a grand time in Princess Dress-up isle of FAO Schwartz. Have you noticed how many times we "walked", it is cool because we just walk and take the very efficient subway everywhere we go. We would go crazy if we had a car here...no parking, crazy drivers (for example, a lady that waited in her car parked next to the moving truck for an hour and a half, just to have our parking spot on the street in front of our apartment) etc. Below are pictures of the few days we got to spend with Dee and Sharon.

Kampgrounds of America (KOA)

If anybody ever decides to travel cross-country, Koa's are THE WAY to go. After driving all day, it was very relaxing to be camping, play games, and actually feel like we were on vacation. They were cheap, has clean showers, petting zoos, swimming pools, mini golf, pedal carts, volleyball, billards, and video game rooms (we are serious, they really had all of this).

Sunday Night: Rock Springs, WY KOA (not really a campground, more like a bunch of pebbles and one imported tree per camp site).















Monday Night: West Omaha, NE (a very nice campground, we found a monster, jumbo spider on our blow up matress, but other than that it was very cozy).














Tuesday Night: Middlebury, Indiana KOA. (This is the KOA that had the Cadallac couple with the yellow pup tent. There were also fireflies-Lightening bugs, as Jamie calls them-- and a large group of old couples with matching motor homes, all friends, and all of them from Ohio).















**Wednesday Night: Camp Taylor, New Jersey. We forgot to take a picture of our last campground, but it was actually a wolf reserve! Seriously! There was a sign at the entrance that you could take a tour of the wolf reserve pens. Quite exciting. There were also warnings that the campground was in bear country. We actually heard bears growling in the morning...until we realized they were not actually bears, but chainsaws (details). Nonetheless, it was exciting because we were only 70 miles west of New York City and were anxious to be done driving and get moved in to our home for the next few years.