Warm and Sunny

We are now settled in our new location. We absolutely love our apartment and Valencia. It's amazing how mountainous this area is. The scenery and landscape is just as beautiful here as it was in Northern California. Some of our surroundings can be seen from the pictures of the hike that Bogey and I (Tim) took through Pico Canyon last Sunday afternoon.

I successfully made it through my first week of work. I like the clinic and am very happy to be back in outpatient. Since the clinic is hospital-based, I unfortunately have to work 2 weekend-days per month (one of which was today, and 2 more in the next 3 weeks). For these weekends, our adventures will just have to be squeezed into 1 day. Jodi is anxious to begin her adventure in Pediatric Rehab tomorrow. While Bogey has enjoyed having her home with him all week, Jodi is ready to finally get back to work.

We officially did our first bit of real sightseeing yesterday. We made the 20 minute drive to Universal Studios Hollywood (did we mention we're loving our location?). The highlight of the day came when we went to the "Special Effects" show. Before the show began the hosts asked for a couple to volunteer to part of the show, to which Jodi quickly said "absolutely not" to my inquiring eyes. As we sat there quietly, one the hosts came into the audience, walked up to us and said "let's go". While I was excited, Jodi was less than pleased as we made our way onstage. After the hosts introduced us, we were ushered backstage. I had to dress up as an astronaut and Jodi had to act as Ground Control. Unfortunately I was not able to keep the astronaut costume, but we both agreed it was a very neat experience.

In addition to the weather we are definitely very happy with our new location. We hope some of you come visit while we're living in this great area. As always check out the rest of the photos on our picasa page.