Capitol Reef

Yesterday morning we left to go to Capitol Reef with my literature of the outdoors class. Steve Peterson, the professor of the class picked us up in one of his vegetable oil powered cars and off we went. He rigged his car to be able to use recycled vegetable oil from restaraunts as fuel. It was funny because the whole we down it smelled like fried wontons!

The hike we went on was about 5 miles into a deep canyon carved by a river, which we hiked in most of the way. It was cloudy most of the time we were hiking, which made it so nice, although we were worried for a little while about rain. Luckily it passed right over us.

The rock formations, and cliffs were awe inspiring. Whenever I hike in the desert it makes me think of the explorers that came before us. The people that set foot in the canyons for the first time. We have been reading journal entries of the first explorers in the west, and it is amazing the trials they faced.

We ate lunch in the canyon and stopped a few times to discuss the book we are reading, Walden by Henry David Thoreau. It made Chris and Me feel a bit like hippies, hiking in the wilderness and stopping to read about living the Walden Life, but we had a great time. You can tell that Steve enjoyed his time sitting and reading in the desert.

He sat with his shirt like that for a good 20 minutes. A few hikers passed by and gave him some interesting looks. One old man looked at him and pulled his own shirt down compulsively, as if it might make Steve's shirt go down too. It was so funny.

After we had hiked through the canyon, we drove up to the overlook of the same canyon and took a look at where we had just been. What a view!

On the way home we stopped to eat some authentic mexican food in Salina and discuss more about literature of the outdoors. Thank you Steve! We had a blast, and a free meal!

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We are going on a field trip to capitol reef this saturday for my literature of the outdoors class. Chris and I are really excited for that!  It will be nice to be able to get out of ephraim and do something.  We can't get too far with our bikes.  

Chris has been keeping really busy with his physics for engineers class and I have been busy tutoring for anatomy.  I just started a night tutoring job in the anatomy lab which is only 2 hours a day 4 days a week, but there are a couple of international students that have been having a really rough time with it, so I have been helping them study during the day.  Anatomy is hard enough as it is, but to do it not speaking very much english, that is rough!  I definitely have no reason to complain about my school work load.

Good news!  Chris and I both received 500 dollars each in additional scholarships on top of our financial aid.  We have truly been blessed this year with financial help.   It is just another testimony to me of prayers being answered.  

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I'm still trying to figure this whole blog thing out. I've never had one before so I don't really know what I'm doing, but anyway.

Chris and I went to the Snow College science alumni party today. We aren't alumni yet, but we still went. We are so glad that we did! It was so much fun to see some old friends, and to honor a few of recently retired science professors. Plus, we got a great BBQ dinner, T-shirts, and bumper sticker all for free! Now we just have to find a place for the bumper sticker. It was also another reminder of how wonderful Snow College is. Chris and I really hope to return to Snow to teach one day.

We have also been making plans for Married Club which we are now in charge of. We already have about 30 people signed up for the club. It makes it a lot easier to get members since everyone comes in pairs. Our first activity is going to be the last friday of September. We plan to have a opening social BBQ, and play some games. What games? I'm not sure, but we will figure something out.

Our new apartment has been great! We definately can't complain for 350 a month. I tried to put a video tour of the apartment on here, but it didn't want to work for me. I'll try it again some other time.