My Beautiful Trip to Alaska

Last week was spent in Alaska with my mom as my travel companion. We had a wonderful time. We went up to go to my cousins wedding (which turned out beautiful.) We spent several days planning for her big day, and several days touring around the beautiful state. We went to the Anchorage Zoo where I saw many animals I had never seen before. Seal, Eagle, reindeer, ox, mountain goat, moose, and moose were some of the animals. It was pretty neat. We also drove to Soldotna where the wedding was held. The drive was spectacular, and I was able to see a glacier from a short distance. We had the chance to go on a day cruise around Fox Island, which was a great addition to our trip. Although I didn't see any whales on the cruise I did spot otter's in the ocean, and see lions which was pretty cool. I really missed Tyler while I was away, but that just means I will have to travel back there someday, and I don't mind that one bit. Before the cruise we visited the see life center where I was able to touch different sea life including several different star fish, and sea corral. It was an adventure of a lifetime. In Soldotna I had a live incounter with a very large moose. He was just walking in someone's driveway. They really are exstremely large animals. The sun really shines 24 hours a day. It took me several nights before I got used to that. When we arrived the first day it was 3:30 at night and the sun was bright in the sky. WIERD! The weather was perfect throughout our entire trip. I would incourage anyone who gets the chance to travel Alaska to take it. I learned a lot about the state that is only celebrating it's 50th year. Everyone we met were adventurous people who were very self reliant upon the land. It is a wonderful state that many people know little about. I am glad I was able to experience first hand the Alaska. One thing that I thought was really crazy is the amount of people. The enitre state of Alaska only has 600,000 people and 300,000 of them live in Anchorage. Their are more people in Tucson then their entire population. We were also able to spend time on the Temple grounds it was very gorgious. It was on a Monday so the Temple was closed but I was glad we were able to see it.

IT'S OFFICIAL, I'M A SUNDEVIL!!!

After 10 weeks of waiting, I've finally been accepted into the Master's program for Software Engineering at Arizona State. I just added my first class and am pretty excited. When I first applied I was really excited and then after about the 6th week of waiting for a reply I started to hope that I wouldn't get accepted so that I wouldn't have to go back to school. I've also been renounced by some as a traitor and a Scumdevil since I just graduated from the University of Arizona. I do agree that I am crossing over to the dark side and look forward to it.
Liz and I have also begun shopping for our first house. Its scary and exciting at the same time because you never know what you're really getting. We may have one tomorrow or in four months depending on how things go. Hopefully tomorrow!! but we'll post it when we do.

Tombstone and Mount Graham

We spent the last two weekends visiting Tombstone, AZ and with family at Mt. Graham.


At the Cemetary

Just thinkin'


Shootout at the O.K. Corral

Eatin' s'mores with Preston around the campfire