Italy & Switzerland

We are back from the land of chocolate and cheese, my favorite diet. We have continued with our whirl wind travel schedule...We arrived home last Thur night at 8:30pm and headed back to the airport parking lot 9 hours later to travel to Spokane (job interview for Ry). We got home from Spokane on Sunday. After a month and a half of moving, traveling, etc. we're looking forward to being home for awhile (at least a week or two until the travel bug hits again:)

Anyway, the trip was fabulous! Hot at times - you know those Europeans, they don't believe in AC. Milan and Lake Como were great - both new places for us. We stayed in Varenna but visited Bellagio...did you know they named that town after a hotel in Vegas (haa haa!) Bellagio was super cute but more touristy than Varenna. It was a beautiful lake, but quite hot! I'd go in May or June next time. Then we went to Cinque Terre, which we have been to before. Loved it again. The towns were darling. Nice cool ocean breeze as well. We also visited Portofino which was fun. Made we wish we had super wealthy friends and arrived on one of the amazing yachts we saw. Truly lifestyles of the rich and famous! Then we took a train to Switzlerland and went back to Muerren, a little town in the Swiss Alps. This is the only place we constently start sentences with "If we moved here..." We think we were meant to be Swiss! This place is a gem. The most beautiful place in the world...well at least in all the places I've seen. 2 fabulous days of hiking and biking, eating chocolate and cheese, and taking lots of amazing pictures. Then we headed to Zurich (with a stop over in the captial - Bern) and flew home.

The Chiefs

Here are a few pictures from the end of the year parties - the 2 pictures where we are casual (on the left side) are from "Chief's Roast"...where the attendings make fun of the chiefs and the chiefs make fun of the attendings (it is also where the wives read "Things we've learned"). The rest of the pictures are from the Chief Banquet which was held last Saturday night at the Hermitage Hotel. They honored the 5 graduating Ortho Residents. I can't believe residency is over. 5 years flew by!!! Parts of residency were really hard, but we loved our time in Nashville and will miss it a ton!!! Shouts our to all our Nashville Peeps!

Cincy House

We landed in Cincinnati on a Monday morning and started unloading (up a LOT of stairs - see blog below!) We unpacked and organized for the next 4 days. I think we did pretty good. Here are some pics of the new place.

STAIRS...seriously

I think I may have mentioned that our new house has a LOT of stairs! 20 minutes into unloading and already my legs were hurting, Ry and I turned to each other and said, "We will NOT be moving ourselves out!" I'm sure Joanne and Kyle were excited to know that we would Not be "inviting" them back in 12 months to help us move out :)