Slovenia day 1/Travel

~5:00:
I made it to slovenia. I left salt lake at 5:00 pm on Friday the 30th and arrived in Slovenia Saturday the first at 5:00 pm. The flight from SLC to Paris was good but long. I slept okay on the flight and got a little work done. I got to see bits of england, the english channel, and france through the clouds. The french countryside is beautful. It lookes like a patch work of greens, browns, and yellow. After a short stay in the Paris airport it was off to slovenia. I'm suppose to meet some people in a few minutes but I wanted to share some pictures with you real quick.

Paris from the air.

Policemen on actual horses in front of our hotel and my hotel room.

It took me a while to figure out how to turn on the lights. I freak me out a little that none of the switches did anything. Turns out the box by the door that I didn't notice... You have to put your room key into it and all the lights will turn on. Pretty neat eh? Well I'm off to find food.

~9:00
Well I'm back from buying food. Brett was logged on to his gmail account and I'm very happy to be chatting with him through gmail as we speak. Instant messaging/online chatting does make me feel like I'm in Jr. High again though and I don't like it. We are working on getting it so we can talk over Skype. Here is what we did this evening...

This is the view from my hotel (not part of what we did this evening but still cool)

Outside the Hotel


The hotel from down the street



The center of the touristy downtown.


Dinner: Gyro Pita and a Banana Nutella Crepe

After dinner we wandered around down town. There are a ton of beautiful buildings that are in stark contrast of the buildings from the communist era.

The castle overlooking the city is in the background atop the hill.


This statue was rare because... he is fully dressed. Or at least more dressed than most the other statues.


Okay this guy was/is fully dressed and awesome!


The park was so green and beautiful there were tons of flowers I've enver seen before and some I have. The amusing part is that the flowers are so well kept but the grass not so much. The grass is longer and has dandelions in it. Not a bad thing but different from parks back home.

Today is the day

Today I have to finish the last of the coursework I will ever complete at the University of Utah. I graduate next week. It seems that not that long ago I was graduating from high school. I have said goodbye to most of my friends and will probably never see most of them again since I won't be in the country to walk at graduation. I'm going to take this space in the cyberworld to toot my own horn for a moment.
-I began at the University of Utah summer 2006 with a full tuition scholarship. The scholarship required the maintaining of a 3.7 gpa or higher and only lasted 4 academic years. I have managed to keep my scholarship and finish in just 4 years.
-I'm graduating near top of my class in chemical engineering, not a cake walk major.
-I am graduating with deans honors (top 10% of the college of engineering) and magna cume laude.
-I think the greatest achievement I have to share about myself is that last week my peers voted me the chemical engineering outstanding senior for 2010. This one I'm proudest of because it means that not only did I complete my course work and complete it well but I made friends and gained the respect of my peers.

I was hoping to hurry and set out some graduation announcements to family and close friends this evening but it is snowing outside right now so I don't think I'm going to get the graduation picture I wanted taken taken and I have to pack for my trip tomorrow. So consider this my graduation announcement to the world.

And I'll leave you with the silly song that has been running through my head since one of my young woman brought Vitamin C (the singer) up last week. This song came out when I was graduating from elementary school.

My gold medalist husband...

Brett participated in the state SkillsUSA competition this past Thursday and Friday. He was part of the team works competition. The jist of it is 4 people (a framer (brett), electrician, plumber, and mason) build a small structure. They took gold this year and get to go to Nationals in Kansas City in June. Here is the structure.
Here is the team and two of Brett's teachers before the awards ceremony.
Getting their gold medals.
Congrats on gold Bretters, love you!

Spring Break

My last spring break as an undergraduate. (hopefully, I made some really stupid mistakes on a fairly easy test today!)

Always trust your sister...

My sister recently told me I have to watch North and South (a BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel). She told me it was Pride and Prejudice but not. Well I finally watched it and loved it. It had elements of Pride and Prejudice and I also saw some similarities to Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit. I enjoyed it immensely and would suggest it to anyone who likes Pride and Prejudice. I plan on reading the book and will let you know what I think when I do.

The Decision is Made

We'll I've made up my mind. I'm not done with school... I'm going on to get a master's in nuclear engineering from the University of Idaho. While doing this I'll be working with the ICSBEP (don't' worry about what that means) at the Idaho National Laboratory. Look out grad school here I come. I can't believe I've decided to keep going to school. I used to always say my sister had enough degrees for both of us... I guess I was wrong.