Je Suis Steph: My dad is the best!

Remember the post a while back about how our apartment has been HOT?! Like 95 degrees hot? Yeah...

Well, my dad was here last weekend for Father's Day! He had to present at a conference in LA early Monday morning, and couldn't get a flight from Minnesota to LA early enough to get there on time. That meant that he would have had to go to LA on Saturday and spent Sunday (and Father's Day) all alone by himself. That wouldn't be fun for anyone, but for my dad, who breathes and lives nostalgia, it would be like finding coal in your stocking at Christmas: "What did I do wrong?!!"

So instead, he flew out to Utah on Saturday, spent Father's day with us, and then got a (super) early flight to LA.

Back to the heat... we were telling dad all about our predicament. More background: we have a little tiny air conditioning unit in our bedroom that keeps it fairly cool. We also have a swamp cooler in our kitchen that is meant to cool the kitchen and the living room. In the fall, it did pretty well, but since we've turned it back on after the winter, its just blown around hot air.

So, dad is here, we're telling him about this, and he brilliantly looks out the window, sees a water pipeline, Matthew and him go outside and fiddle with some stuff (I was holding down the fort; a very important job) they get the water turned on and voila we have cool air blowing through our swamp cooler! Success...for an hour.This actually was only part of the problem... we called our landlord a little bit later and they came and changed the filter and the pump, and now we are enjoying cooler air in our apartment.

Besides helping us fix the swamp cooler, we had a rockin' awesome time climbing Ensign Peak in the Salt Lake area and Rock Canyon in Provo, picnicing, and eating the best steaks and pork money can buy, as well as fresh picked strawberries mom sent with dad from Minnesota.