so, writing from mürren again, today i went to the top of the shilthorn via 2 trams. it reminded me of the good old snowbird tram, and i miss home. but it is beautiful here and the enormisoty of the mountains here is astonishing. they are just soo HUGE! i love the place where im staying, the Eiger Guest House; it is cheap, and has no star (*) rating, but it is homey and quite comfortable. i have a room with four bunks and i am with my two brothers. i must say that the food in europe is waaaaay better than anzthing you could get in the states. its just so... good! but there are some drawbacks. the milk here is sterlized, so you can keep it on the shelf, and not refrigate it-- it is terrible! it tastes like...really smelly socks, all blended up into a liquid... eew. They do have some strange thinking, though. For instance, in the southern france, most bathrooms dont have toilets... at least the ones we know and love. even if they do have toilets, they most likley didnt have seats on them; what they did have was what my family calls a "squatter"-- a hole in the ground made out of porcelain, even with little spots to put your feet! so while you are at home, remember to love your toilet and your cold milk and ice cubes
love
wort

were here in europe, home of the stinky people, and stinky cheese! im having a great time here and wish you could be with me. yesterday i visited a medievil castle and last night we stayed in a strange, very gay-seeming hotel, with very colorful walls, and (creative) paintings... Barcelona was 37 degrees!! (thats hot, in centigrade) not to mention the humidity. im enjoying everything, and and it is totally awsome.
love you all, dont take cold milk for granted...
weston e

writing to you from the top of europe in the swiss alps... a little town called Mürren, the only was to get here is by tram or by train- no roads, no cars. All day ive been driving, we went through a the great st. bernard tunnel that was like 4 miles long! we went over some crazy pass and got passed by ferarris and bmws and porches, and really cool cars and tons of motorcycles. thanks
love zou all---
wort

as i am frantically searching for all my things that sustain me for a month, i agreed on the fact that i need to update. Tomorrow i am going to a place where daily showering is not practiced and neither is the traditional womans favorite pastime, the shaving of unwanted bodily hair. eew... anyway, i am super excited to spend a month in the "old country" and see the beauty therof. Hopefully i'll have time to update this site and tell you all about it, and hopefully make all of you jealous. For my close friends, expect a postcard, or an e-mail. i love everybody, and have an excellent summer without me.

a quick update for the coolest website ever. I graduated from seminary today, to the complete relief to myself, my parents and my seminary teacher. I am proud of my accomplishments as a seminary graduate and an eagle scout. Ben spoke today and his testimony really touched me when he testified of his belief and reassurance of the plan of salvation. He said he was happy that the plan of salvation was there to show him what lies before and that he was happy that he could see his father again in heaven. It then hit me that i also have this same testimony, but i had been hiding it from myself for a long time. I had gained it when my grandfather died, then when Richard died, it even strengthened my testimony that we will see people in heaven after they have passed away. I was telling myself that i didnt have any sort of testimony, and that the only way to get anything was to read the Book of Mormon. I know that i will get a stronger testimony from reading the Book of Mormon, but that there is allready a foundation there, however small. I just needed to find it.

so, i havent posted in a while, but heres the scoop. i graduate next week (yay) and then i will be free from all that is stupid and high schoolish. my truck is now yellow, well, more of a mixture of mayonaise and mustard. really icky. but paint is soon to come, mabye even with pink or turquoise stripes down the sides. if you have any ideas, let me know. i wrote a book of poetry, called "mirrored glass" for creative writing; it is just an anthology of all of the semesters work. i just had my lacrosse awards barbeque, where i won "defensive player of the year" and recieved a new jacket. i leave for europe in a week and a half; i am waaay excited. i get to be in the car with my family for hours at a time and get to be at close quarters with them for 3 weeks! i dont have anything against them, but comon, can you stand to be with ANYONE for 3 weeks straight? im STILL SINGLE and thats that.

so, im finally getting my truck finished, for a short time- i hope. im finishing the bodywork and i fixed the brakes, i am changing the oil tommorow, along with checking the emissions. then i can start on the real work- the straight axle conversion, the electric locker install, and the dual trans case install. im excited to finally get it done- one question-- what color should i paint it? i thought about black for some time, but it will show every dent and flaw. white wont show any, but, white? i mean really, white has got to be the most boring color ever. yes, ever. i was thinking like a dark grey or a tan, like military tan. Dark blue would be good too. i would like to hear your input -- via e-mail. the rest of my life is plugging right along. i only need 1/4 of a credit of english to graduate, and i just hope i pass it. it is getting really hard to go to school lately. i promise the next post will be way better.