Summer Plans 2016

We are so excited for summer 2016!! We think it will be the best yet :) Here is a little sneak peek of what we will be blogging about the next few months!

GRADUATION

Yes, you read that right. WE GRADUATE!! We will both have our bachelors degrees. I will have a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education and Dustan will have a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. I will have finished education for my entire life! (At least as the student.) Dustan will continue his education with a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering (with an emphasis in Robotics) at BYU this upcoming fall. We are excited to have some family in town for the an upcoming Kraus wedding (Dustan's sister) and for our graduation!

EUROPE TRIP

Right after we graduate, we are headed to Europe to celebrate!!! We will be spending two weeks between Greece and Italy--a couple of my dream places to visit. We fly out the Sunday after graduation. In Greece, we will be visiting Satorini and Athens. In Italy, we will be visiting the Amalfi Coast, Rome, Cinque Terre, and Venice. Based on the planning that we have done, the trip will consist of about 1/4 history, 1/4 recreation (hiking, swimming, etc.) and 2/4 eating. The perfect trip :) This trip will obviously be blogged about extensively.

CALIFORNIA INTERNSHIP

Dustan has officially accepted an internship with The Aerospace Corporation (yes, THE Aerospace Corporation haha) for the summer! They are located in El Segundo, California which is right on the coast touching the water, a little southwest of Los Angeles. Though the cost of living will be a bummer, the pay should more than make up for it. Based on the job description, Dustan will be working on navigation and control systems for Air Force satellites and missiles. I'll just be spending my days on the beach ;) just kidding... but we'll see what sort of job I can get in the area for a few months!

Las Vegas for the 2016 WCC

Towards the beginning of March, we took a small weekend trip to Las Vegas for the Men's Basketball West Coast Conference! Our BYU basketball team was playing in the Conference all weekend in the Orleans Arena in Vegas. Since it is our senior year and many of our friends will be graduated and gone next year, we decided we needed to go :)

Our group of friends tries to go down to Vegas for the WCC each March, but we didn't make it last year in 2015. But it was fun to look back and remember when Dustan and I had gone back when we were dating in 2014!

Dating awkwardness 

We spent the weekend at one of my old roommate's home. Her poor family--they housed, fed, and entertained a dozen of us for three days!

Our first evening there, Dustan had an impressive allergic reaction (we still don't know what from). He broke out in hives, his face swelled up all over, his nose ran everywhere, and he had a hard time breathing. After overdosing on some Benadryl, he was doing okay after a couple days... The worst part was when Dustan was sleeping. Because his throat was partially closed and he could barely breathe, he was snoring. One of the loudest snores I have every heard, no joke. And Dustan doesn't normally snore (maybe yell and chat in his sleep, but not snore). His snoring was so loud, that everyone sleeping in the same room--except for me--left to sleep elsewhere. A couple people even slept in their car. Yes, it was that bad. I checked on him multiple times to make sure he was still breathing when the racket would pause for a few moments.

On Saturday, we attended the basketball game in the morning (which we won!!) and got free In-N-Out double doubles afterward for lunch as a celebration from the BYU ROC!

My poor husband with his swollen, allergic face...

The Vegas crew at the Orleans Arena! The group grew significantly from a couple years go.

I was very happy. FREE In-N-Out <3

While still out on the Strip, of course we had to hit up a couple of the major attractions. Dustan and I had visited Vegas multiple times before, so we had already seen the main sights (Bellagio Fountain, Stratosphere, fake Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tower, etc). Therefore, we visited M&M and Coca Cola World this time, which neither of us had explored before. At M&M World we tried out a bunch of abnormally flavored M&Ms. At Coca Cola World, we tried out a bunch of different Cokes from all over the world. A few were disgusting, others were delicious. Funny thing though...we got the taste testing tray from a random human who didn't finish his. Yes, we are poor college students and didn't think of the consequences. Hopefully he didn't have too many cooties.

An attempt to get kisses under the Hershey's "kisses" sign :)

And of course we had to visit the famous Las Vegas Sign :) After visiting the sign, we relaxed the rest of the evening. We played basketball, ate good food, and hot tubbed.

On Sunday, we attended church and split to make it back to Provo to have a good nights sleep before school started again on Monday. Though it made the rest of the week a little stressful, it was a blast!