Salt Lake so far

We've been in Salt Lake a good three weeks now.  We were fortunate to have a solid week before Ryan had to start his residency.

We've done quite a bit outdoors despite the triple-digit temperatures we had for a while.  We've enjoyed  some moose-spotting near Silver Lake.  We hiked to Grandeur peak among others.  The wildflowers are really something in the mountains.

My loyalty card to City Cakes (a vegan bakery with lots of gluten-free stuff) is almost full already!  

Our flowers and oregano are surviving pretty well on our little balcony.  A heavy rain did, however, knock a bunch of petals off of the geranium.

Birds have enjoyed stuffing their faces into our bird feeder and flinging seed absolutely everywhere.  We rectified this by getting a bracket at home depot and hanging the feeder about a foot out from the balcony.

The balcony has been really nice for breakfast.  We promised ourselves that we would use it - nice 2 apartments ago we had a balcony and only went out there to cut Ryan's hair.  Now we eat breakfast out there and have had a dinner out there as well (you were right mom, its nice not to be facing traffic).

I applied to several jobs, and I should have by Utah nursing license by the end of the day.

I've been learning my way around little by little while Ryan is at work.  There is a mexican grocery store here that I really like, Smith's and Ream's have been pretty good for basics, and Whole Foods is very close.  Got the library down the street, and Sports Mall (a gym I joined) has some really good group fitness classes.

I had an interview with a homecare company a couple days ago, so I'll call them today to follow up.  Seemed like they were going to take me on.

Ryan's been enjoying his residency.  Some of the days are a little long, but we knew they would be.  He spent 4th of July weekend on call, and had to go in a few times, but at lease he isn't on call for Christmas or Thanksgiving.

Thats all for now - I know this post a is a little scattered.  Looking forward to my friend Stef visiting this week.  I'll blog more after that.  :)