  I am back!! At least for a few short lines. I don't have internet at home anymore so it's really hard to write anywhere because i never have time.... enough said about that....
Right now I'm at work and it's not busy so I have a few minutes. Last month has been really busy. My mom and dad came to visit us at the end of March, it was nice to see them. I took them to San Diego for 2 days. I think they were really tired at the end of it all. I think they enjoyed it but overall I don't think they were that incredibly impressed.
Maybe it was my fault cos I rushed them too much. Later in the month Troy and i went up to Mt. Whitney area and climbed up to lower boy scout lake which is an area where Norm and him buried some gear in the snow in attempt to climb up Mt. Russel. Because of heavy snow fall the gear (tents, jackets, cooking wear, climbing gear, etc...) had been buried even deeper. This was Troy's 3ed attempt at recovering the stuff by digging it out but we were unsuccessful again. The snow was too deep and we didn't find anything. We used an avalanche probe and we found nothing.... Troy thinks that someone stole the stuff because he was sure that we should have found it.... I guess our friend Norm will have to look for it in the summer.
The next day we drove to Death Valley and played in the Eureka sand dunes. They are the biggest sand dunes in North America. It was nice and sunny and really pretty. The sad news is that the following day I had to come to the ER as a patient because I had a miscarriage.
It was a really sad experience and a very painful one. I wanted to stay home and go through it there but the pain got too intense and I needed some really strong pain killers. I felt like I was giving birth (and I sort of did). It was a bummer because we don't have medical insurance so i kept thinking at home expensive it's all going to be, on top of the fact that i had to be a big pain to Troy. But overall it went ok... I am doing well now. I took a week off of work. The following week we had some friends visit us from Washington.
They have 2 kids so we went to Disneyland (which is only like 15 min from our house), then we showed them Hollywood and later we went to Idylwild which is a nice little village town in Eastern california where Troy and our friend Boyan climbed for a few hours on some beautiful rocks. Overall it was a very nice visit but our friends are probably very tired just as we are. It feels like life is a whirwind lately. This week we are leaving for Arkansas. We will be there for 2 wks on vacation where we will attend a friend's wedding.
Half of the time we will be in North Carolina in Asheville, just to meet Troy's old friends, check out the work situation there and potentially think about moving and living there. Asheville sounds appealing for many reasons: It's got beautiful countryside, lots of outdoor stuff to do, it's reasonably affordable, it has a really nice culture (alternative hippy culture) Anyway I'll update this later. Hope everyone is doing well. luv to all yana 
