Am I really that old...

Last night, after a long Week 2 at my internship, I made a shocking discovery:

I found a very long, very gray hair. Yikes!

This is not the first gray hair discovery. I found gray hair #1 my 2nd week of business school. Now I find gray hair #2 the 2nd week of my internship.

Coincidence? I think not.


In all seriousness, my internship has been great so far. It has taken a little bit to get used to working again (getting up at 6 am! arriving at work at 7:30 am!) but I'm settling in and my project is starting to ramp up.

I won't be able to talk about the specific details of my project because of confidentiality / trade secrets etc. but I do want to write about my life during the internship, the things I'm learning (both about marketing and about life) and what it's like to work for the largest company in the world.

Now that I'm feeling more "settled," I should have time to post more often. Stay tuned.

It was a long trip....

...but totally worth it. Oklahoma City Temple.

Four hours to get there. Three hours there. Four hours back. One entire tank of gas (that is a lot of $$$ these days). This made for one long Saturday but I don't regret it for a second!


It was my first time in one of the new "small" temples and it was amazing how much they can fit into such a small space!

I'm grateful that I had the means to get down there to the OKC to do a little temple work. It also makes me even more grateful for the all the temples we have in Utah and even more determined to take full advantage of the blessing of having many temples so close. I've been very fortunate in my life to never live more than 45 minutes from a temple. Even when I lived in Orlando, the temple was just across town. Saturday really brought home for me what a sacrifice it is for some to attend the temple. I really need to eliminate my excuses and get there more often!

Welcome to Arkansas!

After three days of driving, crossing five states and 1300+ miles, I finally arrived in Bentonville, Arkansas to begin my internship.

(Yep! I'm a dork and I stopped at the border to take a picture. ) Checking in on Friday afternoon was a breeze and then I spent the rest of the day getting settled into my apartment.

Saturday, my mom and I spent the day seeing the sites in Bentonville. A trip to the hometown of Wal-mart wouldn't be complete without a visit to Mr. Sam's (that is what Sam Walton is called around the Home Office) original 5-10 store in downtown B-town. It was actually pretty cool to see the evolution of the world's largest company.

(The matching outfit was unintentional)

Geneva, my partner in crime during P&P and field study this semester is interning at FedEx Freight just 100 miles away in Harrison, AR. She make the trek down on Saturday night for a little visit and to check out the U of Arkansas ward on Sunday. After church, we couldn't pass up the opportunity to take a look around the campus. One of the coolest things is the "Senior Walk." Every name of every graduate since 1876 is carved on the sidewalk that warps around the whole campus. Pretty dang cool.

Geneva and I also liked this replica of an statue of a statue in Florence, Italy Il Porcellino The pig actually has water coming out of his mouth. We couldn't resist!


And again...a visit to the U of Arkansas would not be complete without seeing Razorback Stadium in all its glory. It truly is ginormous. It seats an astounding 76,000!! Take that, LaVell Edwards Stadium!

Wow! It's huge! Can you tell how amazed we are!!