Week Recap

I just finished a great week. I was training in Pediatrics this week, and Friday I took in Cinnamon Rolls to celebrate my last day and thank them for training me. Wednesday night I saw some people who are very special to me, though I haven't seen them in years. It's a couple who let me "housesit" their apartment in Santiago, Chile in 2002 while they were in Canada. It made my stay there so much more fun than it would have been otherwise, and I got a taste for urban life, which it turns out, I seem to like :) They were visiting from Denver, so we made plans and met up Friday night as well and had dinner in Georgetown. I adore their little boys, who were totally engrossed in their new books. It brought back sweet memories of my own childhood! ;) Yesterday I got some new furniture and checked out a place called Eastern Market. There is a most wonderful greeting card/gift store near there and I spent a good 30 minutes laughing, reading cards. One writer in particular really speaks my mind for me, in card form! I'll be going back! Today I had my first dinner guests, the lovely Simon & Karen. I go to their house for church and enjoy them so much! I'm rediscovering the joy of spending time with actual, as opposed to electronic, people! Tomorrow I start at 6AM, so this will have to be an early night. I can't wait for this coming week. I don't have in mind, but I suspect good things are on the way :)

Fall Fun

What do you do for fun when all the usual stuff is shut down? And your little friends are 2, 4, and 6? You go find a fall festival! My friend Cameron, the first person I met at WSU, is in town with his wife and 3 kids. We met up today and went to an Agricultural History Farm place in Maryland and kept the kids quite busy with all sorts of old-time farm activities, like pumpkin rolling, sack races, digging for potatoes, corn maze, feeding/brushing goats, etc. Fun times! It was 85* or higher so we were all pretty tired by the day's end!

This is the beautiful sunrise I enjoyed this AM. It gave no hint that today would be yet another scary day in another part of the city. I love the little pocket I'm in. May it always stay the way it is now!