The good news first: Brian is officially employed! Starting August 15th he will be a supervisor at Farmers Insurance in Meridian. We got the call this morning and even though we were both fairly certain he would be offered the position, it was definitely a load off our minds. Now we know that we won't be trying to support THREE kids on a (private school) teacher's salary :) Now for the bad news (this is where the warning comes in): Our phone numbers have changed once again. For those of you keeping track, that will make three new numbers in the same number of weeks. Let's just say that nextel stinks. After trying to make our phones work consistently for the last three weeks and spending countless hours on the phone with Nextel, the last straw occurred yesterday. With my phone still not accepting local calls- which we realized only after having potential employers, my new employer, and prospective daycares try to get ahold of us unsuccessfully- I made one last attempt to work with the tech guys at Nextel. I was given the run around. Finally I got a hold of someone that told me (and I quote) "Nextel cannot help you. You should find new cell phone service". He told me he would switch me to the cancellation department. The incredibly rude man there refused to stop service without charging us a 400 dollar "early termination fee" and when I asked to speak to a supervisor, I was told, "My supervisor WILL NOT come to the phone to speak with you." Period. Brian called back and was told the same thing. After going around in circles with the company for the better part of two hours, they told us the only recourse we had was to write a letter. So we did. And cc'd the FTC, FCC, and "our lawyer" (OK, so it was really just a made up name of a pretend lawyer in Berkeley, but still...). Anyway, to make a long and incredibly frustrating story short, we got new phone service, hence the new numbers which we will be sending out in an email shortly. WARNING: DO NOT USE NEXTEL FOR PHONE SERVICE UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE SCREWED OVER LIKE ALL THE PEOPLE ON THIS WEBSITE!
Ready for the funny story? As you know, we've been trying to explore Idaho while we try to settle in and unpack. So last Sunday we decided to take a drive to Redfish Lake- a lake resort I had heard great things about that was about an hour and a half away. We packed a big picnic, loaded the boys up, slathered on the sunscreen, and hit the road at about 8:30AM, preparing for
a fun day in the sun. We programmed the resort (Redfish Lake Lodge) into Brian's GPS and set off. We drove for about an hour and a half, thinking as we got closer and closer that it really didn't look anything like we expected it to and wasn't it strange that we were right on the freeway and the navigation system said we were going to arrive in 2 miles. Hmmmm. As we exited the freeway and approached our destination, we began to realize there may have been some mistake. We found ourselves in the middle of nowhere- in the middle of Jerome Idaho, to be exact, with no lake and no resort in sight. As the GPS announced "You have now arrived at your destination on the left" we had a sinking feeling that perhaps there were TWO Redfish Lake Resorts in Idaho. We looked out our car windows and instead of a pristine lake we saw rundown buildings, old gas stations, and steaming hot pavement. This was definitely not the right place. We pulled into the closest service station and got a map. Yep. We'd gone the wrong way. In fact, we had gone 100 miles south, when the real Redfish Lake was 90 miles Northeast. Trying to make lemonade out of lemons we asked the service attendant where we could hang out for the day and have a picnic and she pointed us toward Shoshone Falls (see the above picture). Luckily we were all in good spirits and laughed at the fact that this is the second time in a week that we have found ourselves somewhere we never intended to be, but enjoying it nonetheless.
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