New Furniture

Patrick and I are the proud new owners of a beautiful couch and loveseat as well as a new breakfast nook table and chairs. We went to a place (only found in the Midwest) called Value City Furniture and for everything we spent $1200.00. It may sound strange that we purchased our new furniture here in Michigan when we are leaving at the end of May to return to New Mexico, but after pricing the available furniture stores in Albuquerque, we decided that we would save money by buying it here and transporting it with us when we leave. We are looking at storing the furniture in Albuquerque until we move into our home around the end of August.
We are so excited about this, not only because it is not dorm or fraternity house furniture, but because we are buying it together, it will actually be "ours". Not his or mine, but something we will share. A little scary, but very exciting none the less.
Speaking of exciting, Julie and Andrew have finally set a wedding date. October 14th! I have been keeping an eye on airfare to make sure that I have enough time to get there and back without really biting into my budget. Fortunately, it is during Fall Break so I don't have to miss any class. Which is going pretty well thus far. I made a 99 on my last microbiology test, which is better than the 96 I got on the test before. I'm ready for the semester to be done though. I 'm going to try to take A&P I and II this summer, which will be very draining, but will be worth it if I can be done in time to apply for nursing school in the spring.
The weather is getting nicer here in Ann Arbor. It is about 55 today and sunny, which is a dramatic change from last week when it was snowing again. I keep telling Adam that I don't believe him that this is spring, I'm waiting for it to snow again later this week. I'm so tired of this place. But...we are almost home. Almost.

DC

We had a great time in DC for Spring Break. It was a good drive down there, with only 17 cops on the highway between Ann Arbor and DC. Patrick drove us into the actual city and within the first 5 minutes we had our first "adventure". At a stop light we watched as a couple sauntered out into the middle of the street right in front of us-which was fine when the light was red. When the light turned green, the couple were still in front of us, not going any faster. Because Zoom Zoom is a standard (and still relatively new) you have to rev the engine a little before letting the clutch out completely. Well these people took this as an attack and started yelling at us. Patrick, getting increasingly frustrated with the fact that they weren't moving any faster (unless you count towards us) yelled for them to move. Which they did...towards us even faster, all the while yelling and screaming at us. I thought they were going to kick my car or break one of the windows. They finally got out of the way enough for us to go through the intersection, thankfully. We found the hotel with relative ease and found out that Lois still wasn't there. Apparently her shuttle took her on the grand tour of DC from the airport (which was all of maybe 3 or 5 miles away), and this took about 40 minutes. Once she got there, we went to our room and relaxed.
The whole vacation was pretty relaxing actually. Cold, but relaxing. We saw the Smithsonian, the Capital (although we couldn't go on a tour because there was something going on when we got there), the White House (which is smaller than I remember it), and the monuments, including the new WWII monument which was pretty impressive.
Gemma arrived early (2 am) Wednesday morning, and stayed until Thursday early afternoon. It was good to see her and I'm so glad that she was able to come.
Thursday, after Gemma and Lois left DC, Patrick and I explored the city a little bit, which was a lot of fun. We found this amazing place, called Teaism, which had the best ginger scones I have ever had. We bought a really nice unique tea pot for Lois as a thank you for the wonderful trip.
www.teaism.com
Patrick and I left early Saturday and enjoyed a pretty quiet drive back to Ann Arbor. All in all a very enjoyable week away.