Impact Day

Last week, Don and I birthed a baby named Impact Day. For the last four months, Don has eat, sleeped and drank Impact Day. Now, you may ask, "what is Impact Day?" Impact Day is when candidates running for local, state and national races (from Utah) come to the U and give students an opportunity to meet them. There were about 80 candidates (a record) and thousands of students that came through! Don did a wonderful job planning and pulling off such a huge event--who wouldn't be impressed with 80 candidates coming? It was a great success, and most of all, we are glad it's over.

Picture courtesy Deseret News

 

 

Nick, Emi and Don...Government Relations Board at the U

I took work off to come and help!

Ad for the event--they also had smaller signs and lawn signs around campus. Go Utes!

Beginning of day when candidates and students are starting to arrive

Introducing candidates to speak. Look how cute.

Future politician? Maybe.

 P.S. Don't forget to VOTE on Tuesday!!!

Where in the world...

....will we live next time this year? This last weekend the heavens aligned and UEA (which equals 2 days off of work for teachers in Utah) and Fall Break for the U ended up on the same week. Marvelous. Simply marvelous. With law school application deadlines nearing, we decided to take a quick trip to Colorado to visit their two law schools--Denver University and University of Colorado at Boulder. One of my co-workers recommended that we drive through Laramie...claiming it would be a beautiful drive. False. Sorry, Wyoming, you are not beautiful. But, we did see some of the wind energy things....(that makes me sound like an eco idiot, sorry). Which was neat. (We did drive home the other way, through Colorado and up through Price and Provo, which was GORGEOUS because of all of the fall leaves...well worth the extra 30 minutes).

Our first stop was Denver University. Oh, my. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful campus. It's located about 10 minutes from downtown Denver. The law building and education building are brand new...beautiful! (A huge difference from the crumbling Milton Bennion Hall that I spent my undergrad years in at the U). We were really impressed with our respective departments, but most importantly Don loved their law program. They have some really great programs in place.

Later that day we went downtown and explored a little bit, which was alot of fun. They have some neat museums, an outdoor pedestrian mall and a beautiful capitol building. We of course also perused the surrounding neighborhoods, of which we thoroughly enjoyed. Every neighborhood has a park with little restaurants and shops tucked in--very fun.

Our next school stop was University of Colorado at Boulder. I have never seen such a HUGE campus. It too was beautiful and sits right against the mountains. We spent the afternoon driving around Denver and found a yummy falafel restaurant. Yum.

We absolutely loved Colorado. Add it to the list of places we want to go to law school!

Downtown Denver

US Mint

Capitol Building

Capitol building...does it look vaguely familiar?

Downtown little plaza area

Art Museum

Pearl Street Mall in Boulder

We made it to the Denver Temple (don't mind the van parked out front)

Tis the season...for elections!

It has been a crazy few weeks in our house! Don is studying hard for the LSAT in addition to studying hard for school and working hard for the Government Relations board at the U (whew, busy boy!). I am not sure how he manages to keep up with it all. He often will stay up hours after I have zonked out at night studying and working on things, just to wake up with me early in the morning and start the day all over. What an amazing guy.

A few weeks ago the "Fire Pelosi" bus came to Salt Lake. The RNC (where Don interned this summer) has a big campaign going called Fire Pelosi in conjunction with the upcoming elections! To end the campaign, there is a bus. Yes, an actual bus that has huge letters on it making its way around the country. Being the political junkies advocates and fans that we are, we of course had to see this bus. (An aside, anyone who came and visited us this summer whilst we were in DC, knows I was not the biggest fan of this slogan, but I am warming up to it more. Plus to see it in bus form is kind of interestingly funny.) Along with the bus coming, there were several candidates that spoke. Ahh yes, we love a good political rally!

Happy camper