The Outdoors

On this rotation Matt has a great schedule. He works for a few days and then has a few days off. On one of those days off we took a drive to look at the ski hills and falls near us. The water fall was very pretty. It was a short walk on a path to get to it. The ski hills were really funny to look at. They are hills not mountains. I'm pretty excited about them because they are about at my ski level but for Matt it may be a little boring. We are excited about them being so close. It only took us about 15 minutes to get there.

GO BRONCOS!!

Matt and I had a great time at the Bills/Broncos game. We drove to Buffalo, NY, which is about
3 1/2 hours from our house. The day was full of excitement. First started with a really rainy drive there. Matt had worked the night before so I was driving and there were a few times that I thought we were going to hydro plane into the car next to us. Don't worry Matt slept through it all :) It really wasn't that bad. So we get there and find a great, cheap parking spot and start walking to the stadium, of course in all our Bronco gear. Little did we know that we had to walk by the tailgating area. We only got razed a little there. We get to the gate to go in and I ask Matt where the tickets were? He starts to unzip his jacket pocket and it will not unzip. We fought with it for probably five minutes. Matt finally had to use his keys and tear the inside of his coat to get into the pocket to get the tickets. We can laugh now but it was pretty intense for awhile. We find our seats and thankfully there were other Bronco fans in front of us and behind us. But ALL around us was a crowd of rude, thuggy Bill fans. Matt and I have been to a few different stadiums to watch the Broncos and for the most part other fans are okay but Bill fans win for being the worst. For all the razing and hasseling that Bills fans gave us it was all worth it to see their faces when Elam kicked that last second field goal to win the game!! GO BRONCOS! We actually didn't take any pictures in the stadium but on the way home we documented our day. Oh and Matt ate 1/2 a dozen of Krispy Kreme donuts on the way home (we had just ate dinner too). Overall we had another fun adventure.

Real Life

Life has started to get back to the feel of "real life." Well kind of....Matt started his Pediatric ER rotation yesterday. It is at a Cleveland Clinic Hospital. He is really enjoying everything so far and learning a lot! It is so nice because so far when Matt gets home he gets to just hang out. I forgot how much I liked to watch t.v. with him :)

My days are consumed with sending out my resume and hoping someone will respond. I have had one interview for an insurance place but it was a 100% commission based and I don't think that is me. On Monday I go to a University near here and take a two hour skills test for a position there. We'll see how that goes. I'm sure there is something out there I just have to work on being patient.

Matt and I are really excited about this weekend. We get to go to the Buffalo Bills opening game and guess who they are playing (drum roll please) The Broncos!! Hopefully we will find some fellow Bronco fans.

East Coast Road Trip

Matt and I had an experience of a life time. We were able to take a 10 day road trip of the east coast. Our first stop was Niagra Falls. The Falls were very pretty. We were able to ride the Maid of the Mist right to the base of the Falls. This was amazing! Our next stop was Boston. While we were in Boston we walked the Freedom Trail. It was a 2.5 mile journey touring different historical sites in Boston. Towards the end of the walk was the Bunker Hill Monument . We were able to go to the top of the tower and it only took 294 stairs to the top! It was a hike but well worth it. After two days in Boston it was onto New York! We were able to stay on Staten Island at the Navy Base. It was a lot of fun to be able to ride the ferry back and fourth. We had great views of the city and the Statue of Liberty. We were so excited the first night we got there we found Bubba Gumps. This was our favorite resturant on our honeymoon. We did a lot of site seeing. We saw Wall Street, the Statue of Liberty, Ground Zero, 5th Avenue, Central Park and I'm sure that I am forgetting some. I think the neatest thing that we did was at Ground Zero you could take tours that were given by victims, love ones who lost someone or rescue workers. Our tour was led by a lady who lost her cousin on 9/11 and also by a man who did rescue work right after it had happened. While on our tour a fire started in one of the buildings that had been damaged after 9/11. Unfortunately, two New Yorker firefighters lost their lives that day. One of the men had survived the 9/11 blast.

New York is an amazing city. I think that we could have stayed weeks and still would have not seen everything. The night life was really neat. There were so many people at all hours. I don't think we got home any night we were there until around 2 a.m. I thought for sure I would be scared but out of all the cities we visited I felt most safe in New York. Matt became a great navigator of the subway. We were pros by the end of our stay :) There is so much more to say about New York but this post would be a book we still have several more stops on our trip.












The next stop on our trip was Philly. We saw the Liberty Bell and got to have the best philly cheese steak sandwich. After Philly it was onto Washington D.C. While in D.C. we toured the Holocaust museum, we saw the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the White House, Arlington Cemetery and the Washington Monument. We actually got to go to the top of the Monument. That was a lot of fun. D.C. is another city that we could have spent much more time exploring. About 5 minutes from where we stayed was Alexandria, VA. We ate dinner over there every night. We had this amazing seafood dinner and yummy Thai food. It was a quaint little town with a main street full of great places to eat and fun shops.


The second to last stop was Gettysburg. We watched a electronic map presentation of the battle and then we bought a CD tour for our car. It was a 3 hour tour that drove you through the battle field and told you a little about each place. We celebrated our 4 year anniversary at Gettysburg. Probably not the most romantic place but we felt like we had been celebrating our whole trip. I'm so thankful that we had the time to travel and spend so much time together. Our last stop on our trip was Hershey, PA. Wow, this was an experience. If you love chocolate you have to visit Hershey! As soon as you step out of your car you can smell chocolate. We took the tour and each had a yummy hershey treat. I had the best hot chocolate.



Matt and I had an amazing time on our road trip where we made so many memories and are excited to take our kids back someday to experience all that we did.