the ETERNAL tourists (or at least it seems like it)

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Time for a Suarez Family update. It's been a busy few months. We've taken WAY too many photos. I'll share some.

We had a fabulous time in Puerto Rico relaxing inbetween the stress of a wedding and the stress of moving/starting a new job.

Then we drove East, taking advantage of the Nauvoo area. We stopped in Kentucky where Hyrum discovered Mom's collection of halloween costumes under the stairs. He was thrilled to find that his muscles could get so big so fast.

Since we live so close to Kirtland, we've done that tour twice now.

While we were in Chicopee, MA for work training we took advantage of our weekends to go see different places. Our first weekend we walked the freedom trail in Boston and went to the beach. This is the USS Constitution.

Our second weekend we drove up to Maine to see Portland Headlights and relax on the beach and get burned. (See the "Swings" story for more details of our maine trip.)

The third weekend we drove to New York City to visit my friend from Maine. Her apartment was just a few blocks east of Central Park, so we had a free stay in the heart of the city. We saw Central Park (WAY bigger than I expected), the Statue of Liberty, and Time Square (among other things.)

Central Park

tiny Statue of Liberty

Time Square

We passed through Niagara Falls on our drive home from MA, and its not as exciting as we'd hoped. I guess from the Canada side you can see more, but we didn't have our passports with us. When we got back to Ohio, we found a big green envelope waiting at our door. Hyrum finally got accepted to Cleveland State University! It was postponed because of official colombian transcripts and other crazy details. But he'll start ROTC classes this week at 6:30 in the morning, and classes the following week.

(notice the loooong beard. he shaved the next day.)

For the first week we were back, we got very creative with our apartment. We had no furniture, except for a mattress, so we put some boxes together witha blanket to make a table. Our two camping chairs worked out perfectly. (Notice how conveniently the glass of orange juice sits in the arm rest.) Luckily, Mom and Dad came this weekend and brought an awesome table someone was giving away. It makes our house look like real people are actually living in it. We have bedroom furniture now, too, so room by room, things are getting settled.

(Please ignore my very fashionable hairstyle.)

Once the rest of our house looks presentable, we'll post more pictures! Hopefully for the next few months we'll fly low on the radar and stop our life as tourists. :)

1 comments:

Laurel said...: Yea! Thanks for the update! It's great to hear how you guys are doing and CONGRATS to Hyrum getting accepted to Cleveland State! That must be a huge relief to have that taken care of before classes start.; August 22, 2010 at 6:58 PM