Moving In and Heading Out

Great News
Devin and I are moving into our apartment today! We will be living in the basement apartment of Devin's Dad's rental property. This is where we lived before we moved to Georgia and walking into the apartment brought back so many precious memories from our first married year! I'm so excited!

Horrific News
Devin will be leaving for LA tomorrow (Wednesday) to install more security systems. The original plan, after much prayer and careful consideration of all aspects of our lives, was for Devin to attend classes Monday and Wednesday at UVU and drive down to LA to work Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and drive home Sunday. However, last night, one of Devin's regional bosses pleaded with him to stay for the whole month and forgo school this semester. (Devin was only able to get into 2 classes anyway). He was made an offer that he couldn't pass up so here we are about to say goodbye for a month. I try not to think about it because the thought of him gone for a whole month just makes me cry.
Thinking positively, the good that will come out of this stinky situation is:
1) He will make very good money
2) He will still be able to take the same classes, just crammed into the second block of this semester.
3) I will fly down halfway through the month to visit and to CELEBRATE OUR 1 YEAR!
4) I'm taking a SUPER heavy school load so I will be plenty busy with reading and writing papers!

Although these are lame, they are the happy things that I will be clinging to for the next month! Rush and I will desperately miss Devin!

Savannah

Savannah was so pretty but I didn't get a lot of pictures around the city. We went down there without any plans so when we weren't at the beach (see Tybee Island post) or at the Wormsloe Planatation (see below), then we were just driving around. This sounds boring, but Savannah is actually set up in a way that driving around in circles is not only enjoyable, but educational. The City of Savannah has a ton of roundabouts with statues and parks in the center of them. So we literally drove around in circles. The houses there were so pretty and classy. Then we went out to dinner at Outback and the best part of that was that APX paid for it (we had dinner incentive money and half the office with us!) Then we took a walk down Riverstreet, which is literally a street with cute shops, diners, and bars along the river. The sun was setting and a saxophonist was playing songs to a huge crowd. It was so fun because he knew tons of songs and would play songs that matched the people that walked by. A woman dressed in all black walked by and he started playing the Darth Vader anthem. A woman dressed in a pink t-shirt and matching pink hat walked by and he played the Pink Panther theme song. A couple walked by hand in hand and he played "When I Fall in Love." He was very entertaining.

Wormsloe Plantation Ruins

While we were in Savannah driving around aimlessly finding things to do, we came across the Wormsloe Historic Site. It was $5 a person and so Devin, me, Dane, Eric, and Jeremy decided to soak up some history. We drove through an archway of live oaks covered in Spanish moss to get to the mini museum where we watched a short (low budget) production about the first settlers. The museum consisted of one room in which different artifacts dug up from the were displayed. It turns out that the Wormsloe Plantation was home to Noble Jones, a settler of the first Georgia colony. Noble Jones used tabby, a mixture of limestone, sand, and shells, to build fortifications at Wormsloe in 1740 for the defense of Savannah. In 1793, Noble Jones constructed new homes out of the tabby mixture and parts of the ruins are still standing today! They are the oldest structures in Georgia.




After the one roomed museum, we went on a mile nature walk in which we were able to see the ruins and the burial site for Noble Jones. Along the trail there were also homes built recently to show visitors what the homes looked like back then. The boys had fun pretending to sell a security system to the settlers and trying to upgrade them glass breaks for their two glass-less windows. They thoroughly investigated the one room home to find the perfect location for the panel...they're goofs!





Unfortunately, being the only girl also meant being subject to boy-entertainment including torturing the BIGGEST, UGLIEST, HAIRIEST and MOST COLORFUL spider I have EVER seen in the wild. They spent a good 15 minutes oogliing over it at a distance until one of the boys decided to ruin it's hard spun nest and capture it on a stick. It was pretty funny though because I have never seen a guy afraid of a spider until that day. Haha they were freaking out! Now they know how I feel every time I see ANY spider! I definately made sure to keep a safe distance (unless I was snapping a picture). Who knows what kind of horrible pain a spider like that could inflict! Sorry some of them are a little blurry! I was a little too concerned with not dying to make sure they weren't fuzzy!



I can't leave out the hermit crabs! While we were walking, the boys were once again sidetracked by hundreds of hermit crabs. I guess I can't blame them for that one though, because they were SO cool! There was a tree growing sideways over a sandy area covered in hundreds upon hundreds of holes in which little crabs were poking their heads in and out of. They all had one huge claw and one tiny claw and enjoyed walking sideways. I wasn't able to get good pictures because the crabs totally blend in to the sand. After oogling over these creatures, the boys once again began torturing these creatures. (Mothers of little boys-you think they grow up fast, but the truth is that they never do!) After at least another 15 minute detour, I knew we had to keep going. The only way to tear them away from their endeavors was to continue walking and saying come on, the park closed a half hour ago! I seriously felt like a sheep herder. Our 1 mile walk literally turned into an hour and a half adventure and I can guarantee that if you ask any of those boys what their favorite part was, they wouldn't list the tabby ruins or the ancient live oaks, but the deadly looking spiders and the hermit crabs!

Funny, Funny

Fun times at Tybee Beach