Monday, June 15, 2009

Sioux Falls: The Epic Journey Begins

We made it! After a freakish night of figuring out storage, driving to Medford, getting 3 hours of sleep, and then spending a whole day flying and waiting out in airports (albeit some very cool airports), we finally made it to our destination of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Yesterday was our first full day here. The bus systems were closed down but Brittany and I still really wanted to see the town (especially the mall), so we started walking at about 5pm in the cool evening. The weather was exceptionally nice, 70-80 degrees with scattered clouds, so we didn't take notice as to how far we were going, which accidentally led us 3.5 miles away from our residence. The walk back was painful (another 3.5 miles), but we saw a lot of town.
When we first arrived I was kind of freaked out about this place. The airport is somewhat out of town, and our house is somewhat out of town too. The route we took to get from there to here was a highway that went outside of town... but I didn't know that at the time. I completely started freaking out thinking that we were in another small-nonexistent town, out in the middle of a place that neither of us know anything about. But after walking around for a good while and seeing even just the small part of town that we did made me feel a lot better.
Some of the things we saw were the local zoo, which we are excited to go visit, a bunch of fast food places (yes that's comforting when I'm not sure this is even a town), a battleship replica representation (it's hard to explain), a couple parks, and even a few nice residential neighborhoods.
As a bonus, there are tons of small to medium-sized rabbits running around everywhere. Brittany gets a kick out of these. We are thinking about switching over from Love Bugs (a game we play to see who can count up the most Volkswagon Buggies) to Love Bunnies. We'll have to review this version a little more.
Our hosts are very nice. Lisa was the first we met because she picked us up from the airport. She is quieter, but a nice gal. Josh is more outgoing, and also very... nice. I'm not particularly good at coming up with alternate words for nice. Pretty much people who talk, are friendly (oh friendly is a good one), and generally try to be hospitable are what I think of as nice, and these two definitely fit that description.
This will be our second full day here. We are getting dropped off at the mall and starting to drop off our resumes. We were going to head into a denser business area to drop them off today, but the weather turned sour so we decided to go to the mall and hang out in that general area while dropping them off. Hopefully everything goes well!
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