I LOVED BOSTON!

Well, as many of you know, I flew to Boston last Saturday, April 12 and came back to Salt Lake on Tuesday night, April 15. I absolutely loved it! It was a wonderful experience. Saturday night I enjoyed walking around the neighborhood of Brookline, I was staying in a charming little bed and breakfast in that part of the city. There were college kids everywhere, friendly faces, lots of yummy restaurants, pretty Victorian houses, and well, to be honest, a lot of the architecture, churches, cathedrals, etc reminded me of London. Then on my long walk, it started pouring rain, also very London-esque. Sunday I got up to go to Church at one of the single's wards and I found the building completely locked...great. To my surprise, a really nice guy came up and asked if I was looking for one of the single's wards, and then informed that today was Stake Conference and that the meeting would be outside of the city at 3 pm...of course, my luck...but I was super impressed. He proceeded to offer to find me a ride if I wanted to go to the meeting. So I went home, changed into comfortable clothes and walked all over the city. I walked along the Freedom Trail all the way to Quincy Market, seeing lots of historic sites and cool buildings along the way. They did get a ride for me to Stake Conference, and then I spent the rest of the evening with some people from the Single's ward, and went to an awesome musical fireside put on by some of the young singles adults that night. So up til then I was way impressed with Boston, the people, and well, I just loved the city. I love that you can walk everywhere. Well, things only continued to go really well on Monday and Tuesday as I met with my academic advisor and some other graduate students. My program would be perfect for me and I would have lots of neat opportunites while I am there, and then post-graduation as well. I spent a lot of time walking around the city, window shopping, etc. I met a cool greek guy that has been to my favorite restaurant in Salt Lake City-Aristos, its Greek food. People are out running all the time, love it...and it is a bike friendly city, so I would save lots on transportation costs. I was sad to leave, but am 99.9% positive that it is where I am supposed to be. Great opportunities keep coming my way too, and it looks like with my scholarship and a couple of different possibilities for graduate assistantships there, that I could at least break even without thousands of dollars in debt...or I could be in excess with scholarship, tuition reimbursement, and stipends, that I could come out making thousands of dollars for going to school. I am off to New York this week to check out Columbia University...I am not sure that I will love it as much as Boston, but I will let you all know.