California and Pachuca

Patrick and I had the awesome opportunity to go down to Mexico and visit the areas where he served. First stop,

California!

Mexico City

We have arrived! We went to the Mexico City Temple and did some initiatories.

My first meal in Mexico!

Pachuca

Governor's Mansion

The tower in the center of the town.

KFC...

A Cathedral in Pachuca

The organ in the Cathedral.

Some dead lady...Just kidding. Her name is Saint Columba. Her body is being preserved in side the Cathedral in this little glass box. She was probably only 4 feet tall. And her face is caving in...

More of the Cathedral.

What you see when you walk in. Wow!

Patrick at his favorite place, the panaderia! They had tons of different types of breads to try!

The city of Pachuca is huge. It is a mining town. The mine was built on the hill so the city started at the hill and built down. It makes walking places a great workout!

This is Pachuca. Well, a small part of it. It extends in every direction from here.

This is the mine.

Christo Ray

This is where Patrick lived.

The giant flower clock in a park. It really does work and usually has more flowers around the boarder.

There is a legend behind this tree. There are supposed to be a little boy a girl hugging the tree. I still can't really see them. I'm told that one is on the very left of this picture and the other is on the right.


More colorful buildings.

Rosa and two of her three children. This room was so small. The back wall that you see is the whole back wall. The length of the room was two times the length of the back wall. They do have one more room and a tiny kitchen outside this one.

More to come!

Turtles!

This is Lilo and Oogway. Patrick and I bought them Wednesday of last week. The one with white spots on it's shell is Lilo. She eats a ton! Oogway is the boy and is bigger than Lilo. They love to eat strawberries and run around on our carpet! They are fast!

Pictures at last!

Our Wedding May 23, 2009

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Martin

More to come! I promise!

Albuquerque, New Mexico!

Patrick and I went to New Mexico so I could meet his mom. It was so much fun and sunny! While I was there it snowed in Idaho! Haha!

Albuquerque Temple!

Patrick's Mom's old house.

Patrick's old jeep that they sold to the neighbors! It still has a dent in the bumper!

Patrick's Dad's old house.

On our way back to Kaysville we stopped in Draper for our friend's wedding reception. So fun!

Natural Disasters

This is an avalanche site. It killed a number of campers in the campgrounds.

It carried these huge rocks across the canyon.

The 3 Natural Disasters classes on our fieldtrip.

This was our last stop.

We went to a fault line.

Here it is. It's kinda hard to see but the ground here used to be flat.

The snow was kinda deep...a lot of people fell through.

Here is the fault scarp. Keep in mind that where the top people are standing and the bottom people are standing used to be flat. The hill behind the bottom people is almost vertical.

Blood Drive Madness!

So, on Friday I went to the blood drive on campus with Patrick to be a superhero and save up to three lives. I am not so good with needles but I'm trying to suck it up and deal with it. I have really little veins, small enough that they use a toddler needle on me when they do blood tests. I told my nurse this when she was having trouble finding a vein. She refused to believe that and said that I probably had, and I quote, "Perfectly good veins that are just hidden." Well apparently my veins got tired of hiding and when the second nurse put the needle in me this is what I got.

Sunday Night

Monday Night

She stuck the needle straight through my vein...she didn't know it until I

gasped and said that there was a lot of pain in my elbow. She made the "oh crap" face and got the needle out of my arm. They put ice on it and told me there would be a bruise. Meanwhile, 7 other nurses came over to feel my other arm. One guy felt confident that he could try it. Whenever they poke me I look the other way. This time, I had no idea where to look! If I looked the other way then I would see my swollen and bandaged up arm. I turned my head and buried it in the chair as best I could. The nurse put the needle in and said, "Tell me when it starts to hurt." He said WHEN! Great! I started to feel some pain and he immediately took the needle out. I have a small bruise on my right arm from that. My bruise as seen above is growing AND I didn't get to save up to three lives! No good deed goes unpunished...