Life in Saint Louis

I can't believe it's already been 11 days since we've gotten married. It seems like only a few days, but a lot has happened. We moved in, bought a couch, hiked a trail, gone to the zoo (that's a given), Andy went back to work (without pay), and I have been on the job hunt. To give you a picture of our week, Andy leaves at about 7 to his clinical site, Monday through Thursday, and usually doesn't get home until about 6. So that leaves me with about 11 hours to myself. So I usually get up with Andy and push him out the door with lunch and breakfast and I crawl back into bed for another hour or two... I then slowly get out of bed, shower, get dressed, and check Facebook. For the first couple of days I spent a lot of my time cleaning and organizing, but as you can see by the pictures, I've kind of run out of things to do. So I started searching for my math teaching job. It's been a pain in the butt. The application I worked on today took me a total of three and a half hours to complete. But it must be done. (Pray that I can find something for this coming school year) Anyway on an exciting note, I did find something to do this summer. I am going to babysit two days a week for a family with two adorable boys! I am very excited for this and just for the opportunity to leave the apartment!

This past weekend (our first official married weekend) we did a lot of fun things. On Friday we got up, looked at couches, went to the zoo, ate dinner, and watched a movie. (The zoo is one of my most favorite things in the whole wide world)

This was an awsome bear. We watched him for like a half hour. Their names are Bert and Ernie (really). One paced back and forth the same route the entire time. This one was pacing but did this fancy step over step move with a very aggressive head swing added in when he reached one of the walls. Very hilarious and entertaining.

I don't know what this guy is.. but it looked like he was meditating. So I took his picture.

We also went on a hike on Chubb Trail in some park somewhere South of here. (I can't remember)... It was really neat. First we just drove around the park to see what it had and we saw live, free bison, a turtle crossing the road, and lots of deer. Once we got on the trail we saw a deer like 10 feet from us and a cool lizard. And some really dangerous caution tape and some railroad tracks... We were totally in nature.

So that's what we did this past weekend. And that doesn't include buying a couch and going to Target and Crate and Barrel.