WHATCHEW TALKIN BOUT WillisTON! (title courtesy of my aunt Jannika)

Would you believe that this was my journal entry from last night? It's all this being out in the wilderness stuff...i'm afraid that it's making me go crazy! ;) Yes, I watched Nebulous devour a small white mouse...which is a whole lot of upsetting...my only consolation is that the mouse (that we bought when he was alive at the pet store) was dead when he was eaten due to the fact that he had been sitting on top of our frozen chicken and next to this week's freezer meals for the past few days. And that's not even a real consolation. =D

North Dakota is wonderful...just in case you were wondering. the rolling hills, the really great trees here and there, the huge amounts of water, the wonderful potholes in our dirt roads that make for a blissfully entertaining ride no matter which way you're going, the adorable drive-in movie that is the only "movie theater" in the whole state (granted, it's the only drive-in, but the other two movie theaters here were built in the 20s = full of character...they're pretty much adorable!) I love this town and all of it's quirks. Tons of mom and pop restaurants (with great food). Dirt everywhere (which gives me something to do when i'm bored: mop, sweep, wash the cars). I think there's a total of three stop signs in the whole town because the rest of the intersections are marked "yield"...if there's someone there before you, then you wait...if there's no one there, then cruise right on through. And of course, I can't talk about ND without mentioning our blue modular home. It's adorable and very cozy. It's completely furnished and what we don't see we either have the company buy it for us or do without. We have already got pictures up on every wall and clean clothes in the dryer. =D

tomorrow (or I guess it's today) we are going exploring...which, in my family, means that we are going to hop in the car bright and early and hit every state park, museum, visitor's center, and tourist attraction there is in a 50 mile radius. and since the sun wakes up around 5:30 and doesn't go down until 10:30 here, we've got plenty of daylight hours to fill with learning about the wonderful new chapter in our lives.

What an amazing experience! And what a positively adorable state! who knew?!?