Here is an update of our first week in Texas....finally...
So...this past week, our camera bit the dust. We knew the time was coming. It would eat up a set of batteries within a half an hour...it was Mat's mission camera and it served us well. He had a hard time parting with it or coming to realize that we were spending as much in batteries as we could a new camera. We found a compact, lighter, shinier replacement that doesn't take batteries...and boy have we had fun with it (example: pictures below)!
Our first trip of the Summer was a hop, skip and jump over to San Antonio. It was a super quick trip to see Grandparents that we missed when we were here in April. It was a relaxing trip and we ate WAY TO MUCH! Grandpa Clarence sure knows how to make a good pot roast and delicious biscuits, you can't help having seconds!
We've been trying to decide where to go this weekend, we've narrowed it down to Seattle, San Diego or Puerto Rico. However, there is a clincher to this all....we didn't know that we needed our marriage license or 2009 taxes to show that we are in fact married and I could be Mat's "travel companion". I could be added on as being a "buddy pass", but there's a difference between the two. We've had our wonderful cousin, Melissa go on a hunt for both documents and then mail them to us. We won't know if what we submitted was accepted until Friday - the same day we are hoping to get a flight out. So we are crossing our fingers!! Otherwise, we have a back up plan. Mat would like to go back to Galveston and see how it's changed after the hurricane damage. He spent some time down there a few years back and we're hoping to catch up with some of the families he knew.
Mat is really enjoying his internship. It keeps him busy! I think he likes being so close to the planes more than the actual work he's trying to get done. The only way to describe it is, he's like a kid in a candy store! He starts his 737 training in about 3 1/2 weeks or so, it's 5 weeks of training that he's receiving and some days he has to be there at 6 am! There is a LOT he still has to be prepared for BEFORE he can go into the training, so his nights are being spent studying.
Our apartment back in Utah was RIGHT next to the train tracks, so we heard the train constantly. Well, our apartment here is RIGHT in the flight path for one of the landing strips. We hear and see plans constantly, which I have to say is much more pleasant than the train. I've taken pictures to show what I'm talking about...but I'm not sure which order they will be in (I'm having issues with uploading them) - so bare with me.
This is the only shot (so far) I've been able to get of a plane flying over our apartment.
This is also a smaller jet and no where near the volume of the 737s, 757s, etc.
This is what we drive by on the way to Mat's work.
The planes are close....
...but they get closer!
This took my breath away - the plane just cruises right along over the top of you!
This is also on the way to Mat's work.
I am hoping to get a few more pictures this week, the weather has been great up until last night. We had a thunder and lightning storm last night. Which the thunder is not just like a crash, but sounds more like a bomb is going off IN YOUR LIVING ROOM! It's soooo loud! They are fun to watch and neat to experience, once you get over the first bomb (or thunder).
It also said on the news that there are 7 major hurricanes expected this season, and up to 13 smaller ones. Hurricane season runs from June-September, so we just might experience one or two. However, if the weather men are anything like the ones from Utah, I doubt it. :) You never know though!
