Finally settling down!

Well as many of you know we have taken a little "adventure" to the East Coast. Greg's schooling has taken him to Washington DC and Baltimore, Maryland. Let's just say it has been a growing experience thus far. Let's start from the beginning. We left Arizona on May 30th and drove out to DC (I will post the trip next!).

We arrived in DC on Wednesday afternoon traffic was crazy and Greg made a wrong turn and we drove right down town. It was cool cause we got to see Washington monument, but it was a 2 1/2 hour mistake. We ended up staying at a really nice hotel (Thanks Jamie Pieper).

On Thursday morning we went to look at the place we had arranged to stay in with a real estate agent we worked with from Phoenix. She unlocked the door and someone's stuff was still in it. We didn't know if it was furnished or not. Finally the real estate agent called the owner and they told us it wasn't available until July 1st. They told her that they had two other properties that were close, and available for move in. The first one was in the same complex, we went to look at it and once again had someone's stuff still in it. I guess that is Heavenly Father's way of telling us that we weren't supposed to be there. The other place was awful. I started crying because I didn't know what was going to happen with us. I really just wanted to drive home to Arizona.

We ended up staying in a hotel until Friday night. On Friday Greg went to the Hospital to meet is preceptor and see where it was at. One of the perfusionists was moving out and had his place until June 30 and he had already moved most of his stuff out and told us we could stay there until we had secured a place.

It has been crazy for the last 3 weeks running around trying to find something that will work for us. There is something about student loans that people don't like. Everything was good except that we didn't have a job. We finally found something on Craigslist that we looked into and it worked out really smoothly. We moved in last weekend. We are in a city called McLean Virginia, its is about 20 minutes to Greg's first rotation and an hour to his second. But it's only for a year.

Now that we are back online I am going to try and update every Sunday (as my journal). It is beautiful out here to see all the green and some historical sites. The girls like it too. We have found there Elementary School and we got to meet our ward family today.

We sure do miss "home" including our family and friends. We are safe and together and that is most important right now. Sorry for such a long post. Hope all is well.