Nebraska Day 2

we woke up at The Hartigans house at around 7ish. The Hartigans were nice enough to put out all kinds of food and drinks for us. I am beyond grateful for that.

we drove through Nebraska past the sight of my wreck until we got to St. Paul. we loaded up my stuff and just like that we drove off.

we drove and drove and drove we drove through Iowa...BORING... we drove through Illinois, and we drove into Indiana. We stopped for the night in South Bend,IN I found us a pretty good hotel and that was our day of driving..and driving and driving and driving...

and driving...how lucky I was to have Justin as a travel companion...very lucky indeed..:)

Nebraska day 1

Justin and Keli on one of the planes to Nebraska :)

I worked for most of the day I then left and sat in a ton of traffic to go and pick up Justin, I picked him up and we sat in a ton of traffic to get back to my house.





Brad and Christina gave us a ride to the airport. I felt that we were on the Amazing Race... that is not a good feeling when you are at an airport. We were the last people to get on the plane. It was one of those little planes.





we flew from Dulles to Rochester,NY my firt time to go to NY... and IDK that it really counts BUT I did get a magnet. :)





we flew from Rochester to Chicago we were on the same plane so it was not hard finding our flight in Chicago.





we flew from Chicago to Omaha, we RAN to our plane, I thought for sure we were going to miss it when we got there the plane was running late so we were able to buy dinner.





We arrived in Omaha, got our rental car, Justin was smart and got us an SUV... I thought we could do a full size car... thank goodness for Justin being smart and getting us that car :)

we spent the night in Belleview,NE at my friend Erin Hartigan Cowles parents house. They were wonderful to us when we arrived they had a warm pizza for us, great conversation and comfortable beds to sleep on.

I am so grateful for good friends..and their parents and siblings!

Field Trip

My ward went to Lake Anna in VA at the end of July.

it is about an hour and a half from here. My bishop has a house there and invited all the mid-singles in our ward to come down for the day.

I rode down with three guys, John, Harry and Paul and one girl Courtney.

The bishop has an amazing summer home right on the lake. I spent the whole day out on the Lake. The bishop has a really nice boat and I was able to go out on it twice. I went tubing both times... I was terrified but I held on so tight and did not fall off so I did well :)

The bishops daughter Stacey was nice enough to take me out on the wave runner several times during the day, each time we went on really long rides and explored different parts of the lake that she had found, she showed me the state park, the power plant ( which makes the lake warm) , the gas stations, the islands, and the restaraunts that you can drive up and dock your boat and eat there.

I was able to go out so many times on the boat and the wave runner because so many people there just wanted to sit around on the dock or to play Nerts....they asked me at one point if I wanted to play Nerts I said no I did not drive over an hour to play cards or sit on a deck... I thought well that is kind of rude but I did not...I came to have fun!!! but I guess for them sitting there playing cards is fun...some other people played frisbee, I did not play that either...

at about six pm we left to go back home.

It was a great summer day and I am so glad that I went. ... even though I did not ever get in on a game of Nerts...