Week One

Hi Everybody! So we arrived here in Baltimore and finally got ourselves settled into our apartment/hotel/dorm. It's an old renovated hotel right down to the tacky polyester bedspread (which Charity promptly threw into a closet). It's also full of college students making it seem like a dorm, right down to the elevator that smells different everytime you get in (and never good). But all in all it is incredibly . . . adequate for what we need.

No, seriously, God has blessed us with a good place in a great neighborhood. We walk outside our front door and we're at Johns Hopkins University which is a beautiful campus. They have huge, colonial mansion-type houses all around the campus and the campus buildings themselves are huge, ornate, marble and red brick pieces of history. Charity and I really enjoy just walking around the campus.

Baltimore itself is . . . well, it's kind of like an old mangy dog that even though it needs to be put down, you can still find reasons why it's worth keeping around. It's a really cool city, but it can go from really nice to really ghetto in 1 block. And I'm talking not just ghetto, but ghe - TOOOOH. But there are cool places to see. The Inner Harbor has cool restaurants surrounding the water (real, actual water). Oh, and there's trees here with (get this) LEAVES on them. Crazy, huh? We still need to go exploring and do more touristy stuff.

Charity has not had much timre for touristy stuff because she has been in a marathon hospital orientation session that is going on day 4. And she has yet to have any orientation on her unit. Nope, 4 days of policy, procedures, and computer skills from a 70 year old techno geek. She has had no L&D orientation and still might not unless she can set it up herself by forcing her way into a shift before Tuesday when she starts on her own. But, she continues to prove to me why she is the best wife ever.

I don't start til Tuesday so not much to say about my job, except that my hospital is cool and the few people I've met are great. I've spent most of my time wandering around the city getting lost in a car, on foot, and on the mass transit system. I literally spent 2 hours trying to find a Target 5 miles from our apartment. Stupid one way streets.

But life is good. We miss you all but we're temporarily filling the void with cool sightseeing like DC this weekend.

7 weeks to go; We love you all.

Aaron and Charity