the amount of weight i've gained. we just finished a yummy and filling breakfast at craker barrel outside salt lake city, where we also returned our micro human audio tape. we decided not to get another one since jared has about 50 hours of podcasts just waiting to be deleted from his phone. that works for me because i can tune them out and focus on my books. i like some of the podcasts, like radiolab, but the political and financial episodes are definitely not entertaining and i end up zoning out once they start covering macro economic, governors i've never heard of and the many bubbles that are or will bust in the next 20 years. but jared loves them and actually just laughed... they are talking about accounting.
so i get to read my books, the twilight series, for the fourth time. i know, i know, pretty ridiculous for a 30 year old to read books written for teens, but i have this tradition, if i can call it that, to read all the books right before i watch the movie. im not sure if ill finish them before we watch breaking dawn 1 because jared really wants to watch it. :)
anyway, back to 5 pounds. we've eaten really really well (as in alot) on this trip and the only physical activity we've done is the walking tours of indy, chicago and salt lake. jared ran once in chicago but not me. why didnt i pack tennis shoes and workout clothes you ask? jared was really judicious about what goes in the back seat as the trunk is never opened. it was so hard to pack for 7 days in one bag... i just had no room for running shoes and multiple workout clothes. so im going to be exploring portland alot when i get there... while running.
we're on our way north to boise now, our last stop before we get to our new home city. we apologize for the lack of postings of late, but the weather really hasnt cooperated. yesterday was another full day of driving but we were able to walk around salt lake and j has some cool pics and videos he'll post later. its raining right now so our view of the landscape is limited to about a quarter of a mile... we can barely make out the mountains to our right/east and the hundreds of cows and farmland to our left/west. we're looking forward to touring boise, pronounced "boy-see", not "boy-z" as advized by my bro-in-law gavin... doesn't roll off the toungue as easily, but we've been practicing.
more later
