Trip to Boise

I was invited to go up to Boise and interview in person for a job and so I headed up there this week.

It was a bit intimidating, since I've never been to Boise, but it ended up being a really cool experience. I got to spend basically a whole work day with them, meeting the team and getting more familiar with the job description. The lady who would be my supervisor even took me and saw little parts of Boise to point some things out. They also treated me to lunch at a cafe on a local airport, where I got a delicious chicken burger and tater tots (hey... it's Idaho). And we saw this awesome plane. (Sorry it's a bit blurry.)

After spending the time with them, I drove around Boise and the surrounding area a bit. I went to a beautiful park, went to the temple grounds where people were busy cleaning the grounds for the upcoming open house, and went to a class at the LDS Institute.

I actually quite liked Boise, for the bit of time that I spent there. Though the roads are so crazy. I was so grateful for my navigation system. I think I would've literally died without it (so many one-way streets)!

Examples of crazy Boise streets.

I thought that if they offered me the job, I would probably take it. It would be hard to move, but I really thought I'd like the job and I would adjust to it. However, I was thrown for a loop on Wednesday as I was driving back, when I got a call from a family clinic in Provo that I interviewed with. I was expecting them to say that I didn't get the job, since I've been getting several rejection calls and they had told me that they would let me know early in the week if I got it. I figured since they were calling on Wednesday, they were informing me that they picked someone else. But they ended up offering it to me. I was a mess the rest of the way home and the rest of that day. I didn't want to leave Provo. And I had a great offer to stay! And when Thursday morning rolled around and the job in Boise did offer me the position, I was so torn. I'd enjoy the job in Boise more, but I was so tempted to be able to just stay in Provo. After lots of tears and praying and talking to several different people, I did accept the Boise job and I'll be starting there the end of the month.

It's crazy how fast life can change! I'm definitely a bit nervous about moving, but I feel great about the position. Hopefully this will be the start of a great new chapter of my life.

Also... bonus pictures. Driving back from Boise, I pulled off the freeway to try to call someone and found this little shop that had llamas out front. It made me smile when I was really struggling with a hard decision, and I thought I'd share the happiness.