Well, only a little under 4 more weeks to go out here. I've been really anxious to go home, and Nate's visit this weekend made me even more ready to leave. Next week we go on a horse packing trip to the Uintas, and while that is part of what drew me to this job to begin with, I actually have a really bad feeling about it. It snowed in the mountains last week, and there is a threat of more snow, especially out there. We'll be in some of the deepest wilderness in the continental US, and it just seems like a bad idea. If I can get through next week, though, I can make it through the remaining two weeks...and if I max out my budget with comp time, I may even get out early!! I really hope that's the case.
My boss has still been a total git. Every time we talk, he always has some idiotic thing to say that sets me off. I wonder how things are going to go for him when I'm gone. I know his supervisors will see what a mistake they made in hiring him before too long.
In other news, Nate came in this weekend, and we had a wonderful time! I really do miss him a lot. I don't know what I was thinking, moving hundreds of miles away like that. He flew out on Friday night, and we went to Squatters Brew Pub that evening and took it easy back at my cabin. On Saturday, we drove up to Idaho and did the Potato Museuem in Blackfoot, ate lunch at Browning Brew Pub in Idaho Falls (after admiring the unusual, lengthwise falls in town), followed by a visit to the first nuclear power plant, and then an excursion to Craters of the Moon National Monument where we did almost all the hikes. It was great, though it didn't remind me of the moon...no actual craters, just a lot of basalt rock. We ate dinner at a sub-par Thai place in Twin Falls and got home around 1am.
Sunday we went to Red Butte Gardens, a botanic garden in Salt Lake, did lunch at Wasatch Brewery in Park City, and then drove up to the Utah Olympic Park where we watched warm weather stunt skiiers, explored the museum, and rode the 2 zip lines (one was the steepest in the world) and the alpine slide. I decided to wait until there's snow to do the bobsleds, even though it's more expensive then. One day! It started to drizzle just as we were finishing up, and during our drive home, the sky just opened up and it poured until the next day! It was amazing, as it hasn't rained in ages up here. Our power was out at the cabin, but it eventually came on much later. It was quite an exciting day.
Monday, I took Nate to the Union Station museums in Ogden (I waited outside as he explored), we checked out I-Fly indoor skydiving, but it was packed so we decided to wait (even though it was fun to watch - I can't wait to try it!). Then we went down to Kennecott Copper Mine (I'd also been here before, 3 years ago) and did the visitor center. It was a blast. We tried to do dinner at Archibald's, this fancy looking restaurant, but when it was closed, we tried the Bavarian Brewery instead, where I had a dreamy schnitzel. Then, since there was another brew pub down the road, I convinced Nate to get another sampler there, and then we called it a night. It was a great trip, and now I only have 6-9 more things I need to see before I leave, 3 of which will have to wait until the trip home, and another 3 of which I may hold off on until our next excursion to the area. Phew!
So that's life 'til now. I have to head out to Mantua to do a squirrel point in a few minutes, so I'm off!!
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