Here and There

Brace yourselves, this is a marathon update. Sorry for the long delay--everyone can thank Mr. Jack Debussey for harassing us until we decided to update to get him off our backs! :)

I finished finals 3 weeks ago and Ryan and I went to see the Braves play the Nationals to celebrate. We had a great time but were 2 out of about only 100 people in the stadium. For the first 7 innings it looked like the Nats were going to throw a no hitter against us--the 2nd pic is Ryan trying to decide whether to cheer for the no hitter or the Braves... it didn't look like our night anyways. My favorite part about the Nats is the presidents' race and we got to walk right past Abe when we got to the stadium so I had to take a pic.



The next morning flew to Atlanta to visit friends and family and Ryan was holding down the fort in DC. While I was gone Ryan spent one Sat going to the embassy open house day for the European Union. The one for all of the other countries was the previous weekend but finals prevented us from going. He said it was a great experience and since I will only have one class next spring I am planning on blocking off those two weekends. He said that they served food and drinks and had other cultural presentations to show off each of their countries. He specifically went to the Italy and UK embassies because the lines are really long so next year we will start early and see more!

While in Atl I got to see all of my girl friends and family including Mrs. B. The day I flew in my dad and I drove straight to South GA to see my grandparents and my uncle had purchased a new tricycle for my grandfather. I took this video with my cellphone so it's bad quality but I thought it kind of looked like an old-school home video and he was really cute riding down the street on it. If you see a 92 yr old man on a red tricycle watch out he's riding to a town near you!



Below are pics with each of my little cousins who are the cutest little people ever! I got to meet Lily the newest addition to our crazy large, girl dominating family! :) Fortunately one of our honorary family members is adding a boy to group in the fall! But I guess Ryan's family is balancing that out by adding another girl. :) The pic of Caitlin and I (middle) is from the Fickle Pickle so I got my fix for the fried green tomato sandwich which will hopefully last me until the fall or winter.

As for what's currently going, I started back to school last week but the classes are only 6 weeks long. I also am doing an internship 2 days a week and working the other 3 in the lab. Ryan has been busy with work but is still enjoying it. He is currently enjoying baseball season and looking forward to the World Cup this summer. Two weekends ago we did some volunteering at a DC public school where we cleaned up the grounds and did some landscaping. The school looked so much better when it was over. We did it with our GTDC alumni club but brought along a few non-gt friends to help us and had a great time.

The weather has been gorgeous and just perfect for several weekends. This past weekend we took a nice walk around Roosevelt Island (pics below) and my friend David came to visit. We enjoyed a nice afternoon and dinner with him in the city yesterday and it was great to see an old, familiar face that we haven't seen in a while! And now, drum roll please......





Ryan is now running again!!!! The pic below is of his broken fibula which has finally healed enough to do fun things again. We want to take advantage of the weather and go for some bike rides but we need to tune up a few things on our bikes, hopefully soon!



Finally a cheese update. Two weekends ago we made gouda which has to age for 3 months but will then be ready (doesn't take as long as cheddar). This past weekend we bought goat's milk from a local farmer at our farmer's market so we are going to make another batch of feta this coming weekend. We currently have a ban on using the first feta until we get another batch aging because we're afraid of running out.