We Moved!

At the end of June we packed up all of our stuff with the help of some great friends and took off to California. My mom was able to come up for a few days to help with the packing and cleaning. It was so nice having her there to help. I don't think we would have been able to do it ourselves.

The last time in front of our Provo home.  

The truck all packed up and ready to go.

We stopped in St. George on the way to Vegas to see my grandparents.  Then headed the rest of the way to Vegas.  We stayed the night there and got up nice and early Monday July 2 and started our journey to California.  What a long drive.  I think it took us around 12 hours when it was only supposed to be 10.  They had closed down one lane on the freeway in between Bakersfield and the Gilroy turn off so we sat in bumper to bumper traffic for a good 2 hours.  But we finally made it to our new place in Fremont, CA. 

We had a couple guys from our new ward there to help us unload our stuff.  We love our new apartment.  It is a townhome style with an upstairs and downstairs.  It is 2 bedrooms and has 1 1/2 bath.  There is a ton more living space than our apartment in Provo which is super nice.  The only bummer is we don't have a washer and dryer.  Luckily the complex's laundry room is just around the corner from our apartment so it hasn't been too bad.

Here are some pics of our place.  Don't mind the mess these were taken the day we moved in. 

Staircase

 Living Room

 Dining Room

 Kitchen

 Other half of kitchen and dishwasher!!

 Backside of living room

 Downstairs 1/2 bath

 Upstairs full bath

 2nd bedroom

 2nd bedroom closet

 Master bedroom

 My closet in master bedroom

 Adam's closet in master bedroom

  We also have a little patio out back but I didn't get a picture of it, you can kind of see it in the dining room picture.

Adam didn't start work til the 15th of July so we had a good week and a half to get used to the area and get everything unpacked and in its place. We had no internet/cable so that was terrible.  They weren't able to come out for like 2 weeks after we got there, and by that time we weren't going to be in town so we just had to wait it out.  We watched lots of movies and drove around the city trying to get a feel of where everything was. 

The 4th of July also happened during that time and we decided to head up to San Fran to enjoy the fireworks.  We left around 3pm and took the Bart train up. It is so much nicer taking the train and not having to deal with traffic or parking.  Especially cause you have to pay a ton of money to park anywhere up in San Fran.  We brought our bikes with us so we had easy transport around the city.  It was so nice being back up there.  I love the city.  There are definitely a ton of crazies, but I guess that keeps it interesting. 

We visited all of the touristy areas again.  Then hung out waiting for the fireworks to start.  The later it got the colder it got.  The wind was brutal.  I really thought we might freeze to death.  We found an area that was pretty much dirt, but it had a big wall that helped block some of the wind, so I sat on the backpack and Adam found an old newspaper to sit on, and we waited for the fireworks there.  We saw a ton of people smoking marijuana, and then they would come smoke like 2 feet from where we were sitting.  Adam finally had to tell them that I was pregnant and they should really go do that somewhere else.  Then we saw some guys rolling marijuana, and other guys taking turns peeing in a corner like 10 feet away from us.  Then this guy came by and found a used cigar that had been sitting in the dirt right next to us, picked it up, lighted it, and started smoking it.  So gross.  We decided that holidays in the city weren't really our thing anymore.  I was so disgusted that I was about ready to leave, but we had been waiting there for so long we had to at least wait for the fireworks.  So we did, and they were awesome.  They made the trip worth it. 

Riding the train to the city.

 Riding around Fisherman's Wharf

 Trying to stay out of the cold.

 View during the day where the fireworks went off.

Once they were done we now had to fight our way through 1000's of people to get back to the train station which was probably 2-3 miles away.  All of the people just flocked into the streets.  Cars could go no where, so I was especially grateful that we didn't drive.  We were on our bikes weaving in and out of all the people walking.  It was such a thrill.  We made it back to the train station and headed back to Fremont.  It was definitely a day to remember. 

The rest of our first week there we spent going to places where we could get free wifi, aka Panera Bread and the library.  We went to Ikea and got some stuff to start decorating our place.  Then we mostly hung out.  Adam started work on the 15th and then we started getting ready for our trip to Ohio.