Fun recent adventures!

We have had such a fun filled weekend! But first I'll start with this past week. So my job is amazing! Dr  Boucher is one of the best doctors that I have met! She has such a great personality! I feel so blessed because she is not one of the stereotypical doctors with the "complex." We started seeing patients this past Thursday and let me just say that the people here in Fairbanks are crazy! I heard some of the craziest stories in the past two days. I thought you heard/saw crazy things in the hospital, but boy was I wrong! The other exciting news that we have for this week is that we finally got me a car! We tried the whole single car thing, but with us working the same basic hours and such it was not working out. So we started looking and found the perfect car! Our new car is a 2006 Ford Focus! It is perfect and meets all of our requirements and as an added bonus it has auto start (which is incredibly nice in Alaska)! So as for our weekend it started off with me driving my new car on a lake and ended at the hot springs. So Saturday we decided to go for a scenic drive since we now have a car that gets great gas mileage. Reed has been wanting to go ice fishing for several weeks now and had been told about a place where you can rent everything that you need. So we went to find that place and ended up driving my new car onto a lake! I never ever in all my life thought I would drive on a lake but alas I did. Good new, no cracking of the ice occurred and me and the car survived the lake trip! That night Reed tried some new ab exercises with me and I somehow ended up with an incredibly painful lower back. So Sunday since my back was still hurting Reed decided that we should go to the hot springs because that would help my back. Really I think he just wanted to go and had finally found the perfect excuse to go! Anyways, it was awesome! I remember going to a hot spring of sorts and hated it because of the smell...now I loved it. I guess it's something that only adults truly enjoy! I didn't really notice much of a smell at all. The most shocking thing for me was how little I was wearing in single digit temperatures and how cold I never got! Not even when we went out there initially! Crazy huh? The first time we went in to the rock lake I had left my hair down on accident and Reed said that my hair had turned white! I guess it was frosted over? Anyways, he found that really "cool," I just wish I could have seen it. We ended up "soaking" twice. It felt so so good! We also enjoyed a very scenic drive out there. Then unfortunately came Monday and back to work for me...Reed was lucky and got that day off! The only bad news we have to report really is that while he was off on Monday Reed had to take the truck back into the shop! It turns out that when we had to have the car re-winterized we took it to the wrong place, even though people recommended it! They totally messed up everything! We initially took it in because it kept tripping the breaker on the outlet outside. However when the mechanic investigated the reason for the short he discovered that our car was close to burning to the ground. When the stupid people re-winterized it they basically overloaded one of the plugs and had put silicone on the ends of the plugs when they put them together. Well, silicone conducts electricity...so that was really a brilliant  move huh? Our trusty mechanic told us that he thought that there were actually flames at the plugs due to the amount of damage on them! So, he gave us the burned plug and we are headed there tomorrow to show them what they did! I am so furious! Not only did we pay them over $200 to winterize the truck, but now we have paid over $900 to fix all their mistakes! So frustrating! Anyways, back to happy fun adventures! Tonight Reed finally convinced me to go swimming with him. They do swim PT at least once a week, especially when it gets much below -15, and he is really starting to enjoy it. So I finally reluctantly agreed to go with him tonight. Let me tell you something...they did something tricky to their pool and made the water thicker than when I was a kid! I felt like I was trying to swim in jello! No joke! We were beat after only 30 minutes...lame I know. The best part was though when we left. So I totally didn't think to bring a hair dryer with me. The hot spring had 2 hair dryers there to use, and it never crossed my mind to take one to the pool. Well, the trip from the building to the car took maybe a minute, at most, and by the time we got into the car my hair was frozen! It was awesome! I have never had that experience before. I guess that about covers it all for now. Reed will be leaving sometime soon for California for training. I'm not looking forward to him leaving at all! I'm definitely going to miss his messy butt! However, between my job and church and our roommate I don't think it will be too terrible. Plus our stuff should be getting here soon!