Fear of a Female Planet

I am officially already over the "mormons, no alcohol, no coffee, mormons, blah, blah, blah" stereotypes I hear about my new home. Stereotypes may be a real time saver, but they are lazy and petty. Wisconsinites are fat alcoholics! Southerners are stupid racists! Californians are vain fakes! *sigh*

(I actually saw a bunch of "Real Mormons Drink Beer" t-shirts at the BeerFest and when I googled it found out that this is a pretty hotly debated issue, with some Mormons actually arguing that beer, in particular, isn't just ok to drink, but that beer is a "barley drink" that is *favored* by God - some interesting stuff here and in the comments.)

In response, here we are on Saturday at the Utah BeerFest with our friends Jen and Jane (Jen is doing her residency in OB/GYN at the University Hospital and got her MA in the History of Medicine Program at UW a few years ago and Jane moved here the same week we did from Madison, where she also played frisbee and is apparently a home brewer!)



And a great photo that our injured teammate got of me in one of our last frisbee games back in Madison. I look so calm because this girl was really bad and wasn't even calling a stall count, so I had all the time in the world to decide what to do :)

This summer I haven't made it to some old haunts like Concerts on the Square, but it's still been fun...

Like my birthday:



We're still protesting, by the way:



There's always frisbee:



Girl Talk at Summer fest!



Oh yeah...



Awh!



Making cupcakes with Laura :)



Loretta Lynn at Summer fest!

Nick took a great shot at our last frisbee game:



Me tossing the disc to Peter:



And me catching it:



and a nice pic of Molly with the disc:



Some flooding by my house after a huge downpour:



The band at my birthday party:



Clearly up to no good: