Updates for February

Hey all!! It's been a while, but things are going good here in Virginia. We went to Virginia Beach the week before Valentine's day for a whale watching trip. The humpback whales migrate through that area in the winter. We stayed on the beach and walked in the sand barefoot, it was nice. Our boat trip was cancelled though due to the high winds, which was a huge bummer. Then our computer crashed and we lost all our pictures that were on our computer!! I was a little devastated, but glad I had downloaded a lot of pics onto facebook, so bye bye all our pictures from the beach. That's okay the trip was a little disappointing and hopefully we'll go back to the beach another time when it's warm enough to swim. We also lost pictures from hiking with our friends Scott and Cheryl. But at least our computer is working now that we have wiped it and reinstalled everything. grrr. Posting a blog isn't nearly as much fun without pictures, unless you are smart and witty like Jess Barnes... drat someday you can write my biography filled with dragons and fantastical creatures.



Other than that I've been working and I am enjoying the new unit I am on. I work with a lot of travel nurses, which is crazy at times, but very fun. We work together well and since it is all so new, and many people don't know the hospital and the unit is so small we have to rely on each other to get things done. Matt is doing a wonderful job taking care of things around the house, cooking and baking and learning all sorts of things. Last week he made his mom's mostaccoli's and it was fantastic! We had people over to share in the yummy goodness. The only problem was that we do not have much pot or pan space and thank goodness Autumn left us a crock pot in December, because we would not have been able to fit it all in and have a pot available to cook the noodles. Her recipe makes a lot, it filled our crock pot up to the top edge! Matt spends a lot of time online reading up on the news and researching politics, economy, stock market stuffs, and of course playing some games.



Well I hope everyone is doing well. We don't really know where we are going next, the market for travel nurses is still slow and very competitive, so we'll see in the next month or so what happens. We may stay here for another three months if we need to, to ride things out. Love you and take care!

A Funny Story

So this is a funny story I thought I would share. This is our condo building... inside all the hallways look the same on each floor... the other day Matt and I were bringing in groceries from the car, just talking about our each others day and such and when we opened the door to our condo, I was really confused. The door opened to someone elses condo? and there was a young woman sitting across the room quite shocked that some random couple with loads of groceries just opened her door! I quickly apologized, feeling like I had just walked in on someone in the bathroom, didn't make eye contact and closed the door. We got out in the hallway thinking what in the heck happened here... Well, our parking spot is on the 6th level of the parking garage, we live on the 3rd floor of the building. In the midst of our conversation we accidentally got off at the 4th floor and had no idea we were on the wrong floor until we walked in on the woman who lives above us! We now double check everytime we get off the elevator or stairwells. Ooops. Sorry to the nice lady who lives above us, we really aren't scary people.

Snowy Days...

Another wet day!! Time to do some museums! We headed back to the Natural History Museum, but first stopped at the House where Lincoln Died, rather uneventful, but this is the room he died in, across from Ford's theatre. I wonder what this house was before he died here?

This building above is the FBI building, the big buildings always impress me over and over. I really like the architecture.

The National Mall in wintertime, by the end of our stay here we should have pictures from every season in Washington D.C. The mall is in desparate need of repair, they say it is from the inauguration, but it was pretty bad before that too. I like how you can only see half of the Washington Monument in this picture below.

The entrance at the Natural History Museum. This is a great museum overall, a lot of fun. We just skipped over the evolution parts. They are hard core darwinists of course and show our oldest relative as some small rodent that was supposedly the oldest animal or something, I really didn't pay that much attention!!

Ooo, the orchids were beautiful though. We learned how orchids differentiate and grow into many different kinds of species for survival. They adapt to best get themselves noticed by the bees for reproduction. They are the most varied flower ever, some of them don't even look like orchids.

Then some of them are so aromatic I had to go back for third and fourth sniffs!

This guy was funny looking, those ears crack me up! I wanted to measure myself next to the leg of a Giraffe.

This is how Giraffes drink, I thought it was funny looking and awkward. Too bad they aren't graceful creatures!

This picture was taken on our way to F.D.R. island. I needed to get out for a walk and we hadn't been on the island yet. I think the castle on the left is part of Georgetown, could be the college, not sure. Then you can also see the National Cathedral on the right hand side of the picture.

Sunset from our parking garage at our condo. The end of a good day!