Yesterday marked one week in Wyoming. Things have been pretty good. Atari is thoroughly enjoying her new cat tree and Johnny has started work. I have yet to hear back from any jobs that I applied for, but I applied for most of them last Wednesday or so, so I'm not expecting anything quite yet.

Our apartment has a gas stove, something neither of us have ever used before. I think we're using it correctly...there's really only a nob that says off and then you can adjust the flame higher or lower. Well, the food we have been cooking on it has turned out alright, so I think that's a good sign. :)

I met a friend online, her name is Lauren and she goes to the University of Wyoming. She's not originally from Wyoming and so we're both in the same sort of "what are we doing here??" predicament. We developed a friendship online and then met in person last week and we talked about the town while she taught me how to play cribbage. Yesterday she showed me around the downtown area and told me which restaurants are good and which to stay away from. We discovered a bakery, a bead store, a fabric store, a funky toy store and a ceramics shop. Then we got fruit smoothies at a popular bistro.

Today Johnny and I ran some errands and had planned on going to the park a block away from our apartment to read and hang out, but on our drive home we noticed lightning and thunder and not long after we walked in the door, the rain began pouring and we had a thunderstorm on our hands. And, this isn't even the first thunderstorm in our week here! amazing. It's a good thing we like thunderstorms.

Here are a few photos from today's storm. I'm going to try to figure out a way to take my camera outside so I can get some better pictures next time instead of hiding beneath our stairwell.





hope everyone is doing well.

-Jessica