My "Green Acres" event

I don't know if any of you have ever seen the Green Acres show but it's about to become the story of my life. Starring Eva Gabor as a high maintenance housewife from Manhattan who follows her lawyer husband through his mid-life crisis to the middle of nowhere to start a farm. Basically, this is pretty much how my life is going to be for the next...who knows how long.
For anyone that doesn't know, Ty's dad started Fullmer Cattle Co, a company that over the years has raised all types of calves (bulls and ladies- what's a milking cow called?). The current ranch is in Syracuse, KS. The population of the town is about 1800 people-most of whom are missing at least one of their front teeth-I'm assuming. Haha
Anyways, Syracuse is becoming my new home. We are officially moving out of our current home and into a new one at the end of April. Aside from the assumed culture shock that'll take place, I am so excited! I do want to name off a few of my favorite facts about Syracuse that'll really paint a picture of the one-horse town for y'all...

*Facts*
• there is only 1 stoplight
• there are 2 gas stations
• most of the signs for the shops are carved in wood, minus the gas stations' (one of which has a subway inside) which have electric signs
• there is no grocery store- BUT there is a general store- they carry last months issues of magazines
• real estate is so cheap that I have yet to see a home over the asking price of 90,000. Actually, I don't even see that. There are 3-5 bedroom homes going for 30,000- 70,000. Yes people, they are giving free homes away here. Magical.

I will post more when I learn more

*distances*
- how far the nearest one of these is to Syracuse- approximates- in time
• Walmart: 45 min
• Target: 45 min
• Grocery store: 45 min
• airport: 3 hours 45 min
• McDonalds (all fast food): 45 min
• Nordstrom: 4 hours
• major city: 3 hours 30 min
• church: 1 hour

So Syracuse lies on the border of Kansas and Colorado. Denver is the nearest big city and airport, minus a small airport that is located in Garden City, KS.

Anyways, we are moving in April, but in exactly one month, Ty and I are making the 10 hour journey from SLC to find ourselves a home! This is one thing I can't wait for! However, all my dream home ideas that are so lavishly posted on my pinterest will nowhere near be what I find in KS. I'm sure the classy white crown molding will not be found, neither will my custom built marble kitchen. But SOON. :)

I am giving my future-tell-all right now. So ALSO!!! I am going on an almost-a-month trip to Europe to visit my best friend Allie. She is currently living in Prague, so that's our starting point, and from there we are going to anywhere and everywhere over there! I cannot wait!

So for some reason, it is impossible to upload pics onto my blog from my iPad, so, I Jimmy-rigged this (just learned that term-hope it works here), but now it will only let them be at the bottom of my post....so the pics are...
1. Green acres
2. Welcome to SYRACUSE! lol
3. The town. These are the only shops... So, main street, if you will. And, if you look hard, this photo captures the one and only traffic light in action. Haha
4. The movie theatre. Which is only open every other Friday night, with only one option for which movie to see.

The nudist event.

I want to start this out with the explanation for this disturbing title. It starts with the fact that Ty BEGS me to go tanning...almost everyday. I always respond, quite accusingly, with a simple question.."Don't you think I'm just as beautiful with my natural white skin?" of course I have stumped him and he has nowhere to go but to continue with a compliment and then, trying to cover his tracks, he says he thought it would just be fun for me... Little does he know how much more fun it is to wear workout clothes on the couch than in a gym, and it's more fun to watch him squirm with speechless-ness while I am, oh so pasty, white. Lol don't boys get it? Winter is not only a season, but the time where girls get free passes from tanning, shaving, and pretending to be busy.
ANYWAYS. I finally decided to go tanning. We have a salon by our place so I decided to get a pass there. I go in and I see these huge, beautiful, high-tech beds open to see by the public off to the side in the lobby. I obviously got a pass to these beds because I like fancy things. These tanning beds were actual beds that customers use and when in use, the customer would just close these accordion doors, latch the doors, and continue with their personal tanning procedure. Haha well, I've been in this bed and closed and latched these doors before, so I wasn't too scared. I go in, shut the doors, lock them, and am about ready to lie down when I realize I forgot my nail protectors. I just about get them all on, but while trying to get the last one on, I drop it and it rolls under the accordion door and out into the lobby.
OK, so I drop it, I am scrambling to get it underneath the door, obviously slightly moving these doors to try to reach far enough to grab the nail protector. I cannot reach it, but in my attempts, I glance up, long enough to realize that my bent over, naked, scrambling ass is open for the public to see. The busy lobby is right there. Ok, and this is bad, because I'm not trendy, I don't like tan lines. I have absoluely NOTHING on!vat this point I am mortified and people--males and females-- in the lobby are laughing. I hurry and jump back behind the door and then proceed to shut it and latch it. I tried to hide and stay in there as long as possible, but still, walking out into the lobby afterwards was horrifying. I tried to laugh it off, and the girls running the salon laughed in pity, but still. Talk about a real walk of shame.