The Johnstons

Well we finally made it home safely to Provo. However, before we headed to Provo, we got to have a little vacation in G-town. We were able to take this little vacation because Ryan did so awesome on his internship, KPMG flew him out to AZ to help on an audit for a company out there. I flew out and met him, we hung out with his family, and the best part.....stayed in The Buttes hotel. That's what this picture is. The Buttes is such a cool hotel that is built into the mountain......Thank you Uncle Peat! That's what they say when KPMG takes care of the bill. We had such a great time. Unfortunately the fun is coming to an end....Now it's back to school and job searching. One more year....

Our summer in Boston is coming to an end quickly so I figured I should post a few more pictures of some of the fun things we have been able to do since we have been out here. Ryan's parents and his brother and wife came out to visit a couple weeks ago. We had such a fun time with them and enjoyed going to Martha's Vineyard and to Newport, RI. I don't have any pictures from Martha's Vineyard right now, but hopefully I will soon because it is such a cool place. We took a ferry over in the morning and rented mopeds. We road around the entire island. It was great; however, the natives of Martha's Vineyard did not seem to enjoy the tourists on mopeds. They were kind of rude. Newport is another great town that I recommend going to if ever on the east coast. Back in the day it used to be quite the place for the wealthy to have a summer home. They have these mansions there that you can take tours through. We went through
the mansion called "The Breakers".
Here are some pictures of Ryan and I in front of it.

Ryan is working in Phoenix this week and I won't be joining him till Friday, so for our last weekend in Boston together we enjoyed going to the Museum of Fine Arts and having lunch downtown.







Here are some pictures from our trip to Palmyra. We went with my parents to the Palmyra Pageant.







These are pictures of the Sacred Grove and of the Palmyra Temple.








We also got to go into the Smith Family Home. We are standing in front of the fireplace where they believe Joseph Smith hid the plates.








This is Ryan's building! It is easy to point out because as Ryan says, "It's the only one that looks like a honeycomb"! We will miss living in Boston, but are excited to return to Utah to finish up school.

I have been really bored with our blog page lately, so today I have spent some time on getting a new template. It took me a while figuring out how to save and upload an xml, but I have finally done it. I am not too thrilled with this one so it will probably be changing soon. I have just spent too much time on this and will save it for another day.

My parents went to New York City a couple weeks ago and on the weekend we took a train down to meet them. At the end of the weekend we all took the train back up to Boston. We had so much fun in the big city! It is amazing what you can do in just a weekend.

We went to church in the same building as the Manhattan Temple!




The coolest thing we saw all weekend was in Central park. We happened upon this group of people dancing in a huge circle. We also enjoyed going to the "Top of the Rock" which is the top of the Rockefeller center.









We went and saw Spamalot on Broadway. It was hilarious....just like the movie. This is a picture of Ryan at our hotel.....funky! It was a very modern and artistic hotel in the middle of Times Square. It was perfect!










We took a boat tour around the entire island. We really enjoyed it because we got to see so much....without having to walk too! An added bonus.



We went to the famous Tavern on the Green Restuarant. I have been there before and was very impressed by it, but this time, it was horrible........so I probably wouldn't recommend it. The food was good, but the worst service ever!