Half settled in

I say half because we are in our new diggs but sitting on the furnitureless floor. We rented a car for the first 2 weeks so we could scramble around and get things that we didn't have shipped (new couch and love seat, kitchen table, etc....) but now we are car less and are going to give it a whirl seeing if we can go without one in this modern day and age. The Metro system here is fantastic and so far we haven't had to walk more then a 10th of a mile if we don't want to without a bus or train being near. In the morning I have a nice 1/2 mile walk to the train station and that drops me right at my office. Down the street 5 blocks is King St, which houses pretty much every type of restaurant imaginable and also dozens of cool bars and pubs. Which seeing as we are TVless the pubs have come in handy on the weekends for the Sox and Patriots game. Got to love those $7 bucket of beer (5 per bucket) on Saturday and Sundays. Here are a few random photos from this past weekend....

We discovered this park down at the end of our street while out for our 3 hour urban hike on Saturday. That's the Potomac River.

Another shot of the same park. It was 75 degrees and sunny walking around (that was a dig for the Kodiak peeps)

The outside of the new abode. A nice little row house, and while it looks narrow it is long so we have a living room, dining room and kitchen on the first floor, two bedrooms on the second and the third floor is another bedroom and a roof top deck. It also has a nice yard that the Mrs. has sorely missed and she is already working the flower beds.

The empty living room, at least the Internet was hooked up today so I'm back tuned in to the pulse of the world. (side note: uploading these 1.3 meg photos is taking 8 seconds compared to 2 minutes in Kodiak)

The Mrs. wanted me to include this for the MIL in Portland, the backing in the kitchen is a cool pressed tin backsplash.

And if you curious about where my new FAVORITE place in the world is, be curious no more