Sunday, August 30, 2009

Apollo's new groove

My fish is adjusting quite nicely to the east coast. He seems to be happy, swimming well, eating well. However he has undergone a strange mutation. Let us review his Utah look.



Nice blue color (which actually did fade some, sorry I don't have a more recent picture), white fins with splashes of red. Apollo has decided that with the change in environment, he needed to also have a drastic change. This is the new Apollo.








He is still acting healthy and I still love him just the same, he's just turned more...red. Four prevailing theories right now. The first is his little container that I brought him over in was red, and maybe he just misses that container and it is kind of like the patronus phenomenon. The second theory is stress, it's a killer. The third theory, Apollo died on the trip, my fam didn't want to tell me so switched him when I was sleeping hoping I wouldn't notice. The fourth and most likely theory in my mind is the fact that there is fluoride in the water in Connecticut that was not in the water in Utah! Hm...what do you think?

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

RELOCATION!!

Wow, I can't believe where life has gone, I have officially moved to Connecticut to get my nurse practitioner degree at Yale University! This explains lack of recent posts...extreme business with getting ready to go plus soak up as much of my Utah friends as I could muster! But you'll be happy to hear that I have a goal to update at least once a week!

To get to Connecticut, my sister Sara, Mom, best friend Nicki and fish - Apollo - went on an intense cross country trip. We drove a truck which I lovingly named Phillipe and Millie (my car) through 11 states which are:

1. Utah!
Sara with Phillipe and our entertainment, Harry Potter!



2. Wyoming!
Boring picture, but Wyoming is a boring state! In the Walmart parking lot trying to stay out of the sun.



3. Nebraska!
We slept in this charming town called Sidney. My favorite part was passing a town called Friend.




4. Iowa!
we accidentally took a video instead of a picture...




5. Illinois!
not too much exciting happened here




6. Indiana!
Are you getting the gist yet that not too much happened on the first part of our trip?


7. Ohio!
Finally excitement! We stopped in Kirtland to visit some of the church history sites. The Kirtland temple was beautiful.


8. Pennsylvania!
We weren't here for too long...


9. New York!
We did several things in New York, we stopped at Niagra falls, Apollo got so excited, he tried to join his fish friends, but I told him he didn't want to go down the waterfall and he calmed down. We also went through Palmyra. On the same day that we went to the Kirtland Temple, we got to go to the Palmyra Temple! It was a neat experience. We saw most of the sites in Palmyra, the missionaries at the Hill Cumorah (huh, apparently I have no idea how to spell that...is that right?) babysat Apollo for me while we saw the sites. I think they were amused.







10. Massachusetts!
Turns out we didn't get a picture in Massachusetts.

11. Connecticut!
yeah! Apollo made it back into his bowel!




I'm excited to see what new adventures await me here in the east! Coming up next, why Connecticut has turned Apollo blue again with some red splashed in...