what i did this weekend...

so where was angie while dan was at his beloved boardgame convention, you ask. well, i headed down south with a friend from my mission, errin lacey. we spent a couple of days in moab. two days were not long enough but they'll do until i can get back again (hopefully this summer). errin had never been to southern utah ever! there were so many things i wanted to show her but our time was limited. we hiked to delicate arch. the weather was perfect: nice and cool, a bit overcast. then the snow came! crazy! but really beautiful. the next day we rented mountain bikes! i'd never been. the bike was awesome. full suspension. the trail we rode included 3 miles over slick rock. that was absolutely the best part. kinda scary but oh, so thrilling. i'd do it again. southern utah is one of my favorite places in the whole wide world! 

p.s. jake, i hope this post wasn't too painful. :)

Well, I spent this last weekend in Idaho Falls at the ICON boardgame convention. Kent and Timmy drove up early Friday morning and picked me up, we got there around noon and jumped right into it. It was two days long and the convention center was rented all through the night so we stayed there the entire time (i slept for 1 hour underneath a table). I played some awesome games and got to meet alot of cool gamers. I have so many games I want to buy now! I even got to trade away some games I never play for some cool games that others had brought. I participated in a few tournaments and even did pretty well in a couple. I played in the championship game for El Grande (I'd never played it before the convention). Anyways, I really had a ball and am so excited for the Salt Lake convention in July! Woo Hoo!

This is a link to a list of the cool games Iplayed:

 http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/30717

thoughts on lice

yesterday when i arrived at work i was told there had been a lice outbreak. yikes! (for those of you who don't know, i work in childcare). it was actually one of the teacher's who had it. still not sure whether she picked it up somewhere else or if it was from one of the kids. this news freaked me out. there is something in my past some of you know about, others, maybe not. i have had lice. i got it on my mission. i had it for close to 5 miserable months! i had it so bad with a rash on my neck and behind my ears were they were starting to try to burrow into my skin! did you know they did that? a family we taught had it and we didn't discover that until it was too late. anywho, the whole story is pretty long and involved but basically i could not get rid of it because of my long curly hair. i guess. i did the treatment countless times and each time i thought i got it but then a week or two later i would find some nits in my hair. it gives me the creepie crawlies just remembering. finally the mission nurse told me i had to cut off my hair...all of it, or i probably wouldn't get rid of the lice. i cried. but i did it. this picture was taken probably the day i got it cut. so short. oh, how i hated it. i really hope i don't get lice again. *sigh*

*Nerd Alert*

So Angie and I play board games with a couple every Wednesday night, and Saturday we went to their place again to take another crack at Wednesday's game (since wednesday's game was really complicated and it took Adam and me a couple hours before we felt like we had sufficient understanding to start playing and by then our wives had long since left and started a movie). So we played that and it took a good 2 or 3 hours. Then, not quite feeling like we'd had our fix, Adam and I wanted to stay up and try out another game he's had but had never played. I own it and didn't remember it being too complicated or taking too terribly long... So about 5 hours later we finally finished it!!! Angie had long since given up and gone home, and the rest of us were drunken with fatigue and frustration, we were all relieved when Adam finally won. It was such a good time, though!! I don't know if Angie will ever play that game with me again, but I'm excited for a rematch :)

When in Rome...

Wow, so here you go! We have finally gotten around to uploading all our pictures and slap another post on our blog. Just a run down- we took the train to Venice the morning after we arrived and spent all day there. It was really cool! There was alot of fog and even sprinkled a little while we were there, but it didn't dampen our spirits- Angie even got her face painted. We spent the next day or two playing with the boys and visiting San Marino (it's the castle on the hill in the pictures, and is also it's own independent republic). Isaac was blessed on Sunday and it was fun to add Italian to the ever-growing list of languages in which we've attended church :). Early Monday morning we were on a bus to Rome. We stayed 2 nights there in a hostel and had a ball. There was so much to see, but after 3 days of constant walking and metro-ing (we had completely mastered the public transportation by the time we left) we feel like we've seen everything in Rome 2 or 3 times. It was so cool how much history there was. I kept thinking how much Josh would love it. You've got to go sometime :) Everywhere you look there are 2,000 year old ruins and so many of them have just been added to and have become parts of new buildings. We toured the Colosseum and the Vatican- so much history and so many cool things to look at, a person could spend a lifetime there and not take it all in- but after 3 days their legs would be tired, that's for sure :) After Rome it was back on the train and back to the plain and back to the states eventually (for me at least). Angie stayed a full week longer and did some more fun things. She can tell you about those, but I'll tell you she saw some old books and dead monks- does that wet your apetite?

Coming soon...

I'm anxious to update our blog with pictures and stuff from our trip to Italy, but Angie has the camera and she wont be back until Thursday. So look forward to that!

You be the Judge

This is in response 

to Jacob's comment 

on our last post. For 

all of you curious

passersby.