Fall is in the air...Well not quite. General Update

Okay. So school has started, I love the Fall and the way the air get's crisp and you get to start wearing fun cloths and feel all collegiate or grown up...Ya...NO. So I get all moved into my house and meet everyone and get settled in. The weather is like MAY, it is so dang hot. I am still wearing sandals and trying to stay cool. Don't get me wrong, I love summer, but there is a time for it and during school is not one of those times. In other news, I am so excited because after three major/minor changes in school, I am now seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, and, I will finally walk out with my bachelor's degree. My classes this year are pretty good, I have to take a few gens that I didn't at the beginning(I avoided them) and for the most part just communication classes. I love this field, there are so many different options things to learn. I am loving my roommates, every year it seems that I get really good roommates. I do miss the ones from last year though, they were so much fun and had so many different things going on. I am still working but just for a few hours a week so that I don't have to drive back and forth everyday:) It is a lot of fun to be able to work with such awesome people. Mom and Alisa are getting along without me...(hard I know). And Chase is doing really well over in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he now has just a little over 6 months leftish. It is kinda odd starting school without him again, I look forward to when he gets back, then I can pick his brain for my math class I have to take :) Life is good, and hopefully fall will come soon and stay for a long time.

Salem, Boston, Cap Cod, Natucket, Martha's VIneyard.and Providence.

Nothing says summer like a vacation back east, New England to be exact. Last year we went to upper state New York and this year...New England areas. The one thing that amazes me about the east is all the trees and how the highways are surrounded by thick thick green lush, it is so beautiful. I also was amazed by the beaches, many of you may have seen paintings of beaches in the upper East, with the little white picket fence that is half falling over...yes it truly does exist. There were so many wonderful things to see. We were able to go to Plymouth and I found out that my cousin Priscilla is named after an ancestor of ours who actually sailed on the mayflower Priscilla Mullins. It was pretty exciting to know that I have such a neat heritage. The Cape was so beautiful and Nantucket was very relaxing. While there we ate lobster by the sea, oh it was SO delicious! One of the great things about traveling is studying up on the places, and then going there and being like, "oh this person really walked here, or this was so and so's house. I was in awe the whole time we were in Paul Revere's home. Another Highlight was walking the Grounds of Brown University in Rhode island and Harvard University in Cambridge. What a spirit of intelligence that runs on those grounds. I heard from a friend who put it this way, "You feel like your IQ raises by ten points just being on the grounds." Boston is Beautiful, but a Tricky city to navigate...Time to buy a GPS unit. Here are some pics to enjoy!