So Heather and I are finally recovered from our vacation and life is getting back to normal-ish. It turns out that I'm headed back to CA next week. Kaylee's Birthday is Sunday and I'm sure we'll have some more pics of the kids to share soon.
As I was going throught he photos from our trip, I wanted to share some I snapped from the plane ride out to SC. After we took off from SLC the captain came on and said that there was a major storm system that was in our path and that we were being directed around it. Little did we know that we'd be near Albequerque, NM before we really started the trek east. Go figure. The captain pointed out that fact and also the weather system as we rounded the end of the storm. We were cruising about 37,000 feet and we were told that some storm cells went as high as 70,000 feet.
Anyway, I snapped several cool pictures of the clouds from the plane, here are a couple of my favorites. The first is the end of the storm as we came around.
As we got in front of the storm you could see multiple layers to it, creating some interesting pictures. This is a zoomed in photo of the lowest of a three layer cloud system. You can see a little bit of the rain here. Kinda eerie.
As I was going throught he photos from our trip, I wanted to share some I snapped from the plane ride out to SC. After we took off from SLC the captain came on and said that there was a major storm system that was in our path and that we were being directed around it. Little did we know that we'd be near Albequerque, NM before we really started the trek east. Go figure. The captain pointed out that fact and also the weather system as we rounded the end of the storm. We were cruising about 37,000 feet and we were told that some storm cells went as high as 70,000 feet.
Anyway, I snapped several cool pictures of the clouds from the plane, here are a couple of my favorites. The first is the end of the storm as we came around.
As we got in front of the storm you could see multiple layers to it, creating some interesting pictures. This is a zoomed in photo of the lowest of a three layer cloud system. You can see a little bit of the rain here. Kinda eerie.
Anyway, those of you to the east can blame this as one of many storms causing the bad weather out there.
As you may know, Heather's brother Sam got married which was the reason for the trip. We got there a day ahead to have some time to help set up and socialize with Sam and Renata (she's from Argentina) before they left on their honeymoon. The wedding was typical for a Johansen wedding, there had to be something that happened and this time was no exception. The Columbia, SC temple is about and hour and a half away from where the family lives. It turns out that after arriving at the temple Sam discovered that he didn't have the marriage license. Well, 3-4 hours later we all met back at the temple for a later-than-planned ceremony. Here's a picture of the happy couple:
A couple of unique things about the day: first, the ceremony was done in Spanish so more than half of the people in attendance didn't understand the language. With my Portuguese I understood a little more than half of what ws said. The second thing that was that outside the temple and during the reception there was a webcast from a laptop so Renata's family in Argentina could see what was going on. A little unusual, but I'm sure it made the bride very happy to share with her family.
