The Bowers: I have another new job!

Well, I no longer work for URS. It was a great job and there were a lot of great people that work there but I was offered and took a permanent job elsewhere. I now work for Dr. Sedwick as the front desk receptionist. He is an ENT and Facial Plastic Surgeon. There are a total of 5 of us that work there (including Dr. Sedwick), so it is a VERY different situation than I have ever worked in before. I only work about 32 hours a week and am making the same per month as URS. I will have the option for insurance coverage and at the end of my first year will have 2 weeks paid vacation. I will also benefit from profit sharing at the end of the year. I know it seems crazy to have changed jobs after only one month but since I was not given any guarantees of a position at the end of the temp position I felt like I needed to take a sure thing. Plus did I mention that I only have to work about 32 hours a week!!!!! Oh, btw, the office is less than 1 mile from our apartment and the latest I have to work on Friday's is 2:00 and the doctor is thinking about shortening the hours on Friday this summer.

This past weekend Kevin and I and our friend Mattea went to Seward. We got a special deal on a whale watching cruise, a night at Hotel Seward (very nice) and tickets to the Wildlife Conservation Center. Unfortunately we didn't see any whales on the cruise but we did see lots of other wildlife. We saw porpoise, mountain goats, bald eagles, sea lions and sea otters. We also saw several dall sheep on the way back home. We had an awesome dinner at the Italian restaurant in Seward and the hotel was much better and nicer than we expected. From the looks of it outside we thought we would be characters in the next Stephen King novel. It rained most of the time we were there but we still had a LOT of fun.