Wow, what in the world happened to July?! Can you believe it’s August already? I can’t! I guess I’ll do a quick recap of what’s been going on in the past…umm…month. LOL

Alyssa’s Visit: Oh it was so fun! So nice to have family here to hang out with and someone that will actually go shopping in girly stores with me! hehe We had quite a busy week while she was here. We managed to hit up the Cheyanne Mountain Zoo (feeding the giraffes was definitely a highlight), Garden of the Gods, the Royal Gorge (boy does that bridge sway!!), the mall (Forever 21, finally! Adam isn’t patient enough for me to go there when we shop), Manitou Springs & 4th of July fireworks, the Olympic Training center…I think that was mostly it? We had a list of things we wanted to do and I think we made it through a majority of them. And she even got to experience one of our crazy storms! Our street literally looked like a rushing river and there was so much hail it look like it had snowed. It was quite the welcome for her considering it happened the first day she arrived! LOL

Speaking of the weather…Can I just say that the weather here is CRAZY?! When we first moved here, everyone told us about how it’s so dry here (as in not humid) and how they occasionally get thunderstorms in the afternoon but then it clears up. Umm, I have no idea what they were talking about, because that is definitely not what we’ve seen. We’ve had crazy thunderstorms, flash flood warnings pretty much everyday and anytime it’s cloudy it is most definitely humid! Ugh! The worst part is it makes it impossible to do anything outside since at a moment’s notice you might be caught in a downpour. Here’s to hoping Fall will be nicer!

Rain, rain, go away: So last weekend Adam and I decided to go to see the Sky Sox since the Zooperstars were performing. Love them! As were leaving the house it started drizzling a little but we figured we’d go anyway, in the hopes that it would clear up. Well we bought our tickets, got to our seats and had just barely gotten settled when it starts hailing. HAILING! Even though I had brought our handy Korean umbrella, we eventually ended up retreating to the top of the stadium along with the rest of the crowd. The game ended up being delayed for an hour until the rain let up just enough for them to decide it was ok to start. Sadly, the rain went back and forth between drizzling and pouring the entire game. It was pretty miserable but in one of those, this is so awful it’s hilarious kind of ways. At least the Sky Sox won this time!

Taking in the local culture: Adam and I have actually been trying to experience more of the area here. We’ve been to a couple local restaurants, some farmer’s markets, a concert in the park. There actually are a lot of activities here in summer, including ones that are free, woohoo! The one that I’m most excited about is the concerts at America the Beautiful Park. They’re on Wednesday’s at 6pm and everyone packs a picnic dinner and comes out to the park. Last time the musical entertainment was a swing band, so fun! We only stayed for a little bit as we hadn’t planned on staying but I’m hoping to go this Wednesday. Seems like a fun night out of the house!

House time: We are officially all unpacked…HA, I wish I could say that! We actually were doing pretty well putting everything away before Alyssa came but since then we haven’t really done much. My goal this week is to tackle the office as that’s where a majority of the boxes still are. The hardest part has been trying to figure out where everything goes since so much of it had been in storage. There were a lot of things I’d forgotten about! Oh well, hopefully I can get a bunch done before Susan arrives on Sunday!

Entertainment: We did see a couple of movies last month - Harry Potter & Hairspray - I was really excited to seeboth and they definitely didn’t disappoint. Although I was a tad confused during Harry Potter as some parts were completely different from the book, but luckily Adam had just finished the 5th book so he was able to answer my questions. Oh, and I did manage to read the 6th book in time for the 7th to be released although it did take some marathon reading! Speaking of the 7th book, I loved it! I think it’s by far my favorite, probably because I was right in my theories about what would happen. But it was fun to see everything from the past books come together. If you haven’t taken the time to read the books, you really should, the movies are nowhere near as good! And if you haven’t seen Hairspray, what are you waiting for! It is so fun and just as good, if not better, than the theater version! Yay!

Ok well it’s getting late here so I’m going to wrap this up! Until next time…