Go together well

After a month of feeling constantly as though I was struggling to keep my head above water, I am feeling much more relaxed...at least in part because I am no longer working on the chaotic cardiology service! I have moved on to taking care of babies --two weeks in the NICU, then two weeks in the newborn nursery.  At one point during my cardiology rotation, Chris said, "Life is a lot more enjoyable when we view it as an adventure instead of as a chore." Which is very true--and easier to enact at some times more than others. But, in addition to being an adventure, life is a work in progress!  In a few days, it will be 7 years since the day Chris and I met at a bar in Granada  and our shared adventures began.  We've done a lot together since that time: we've traveled to 4 countries, lived in 4 states (and traveled to...20?), earned 5 degrees between the two of us, raised a puppy, and made lots of great new friends (while also enjoying our "old" friends)...

My brother-in-law Mark is planning to go to Spain in May for a friend's wedding and to do some traveling. He asked for advice about things to do in Granada and southern Spain, so I got to reminisce about one (actually, two...because we went back for our honeymoon!) of the best times in my life (so far)!  I could talk about Granada for days...but instead I'll just share pictures of my favorite things: {views of the city from the Alhambra} { churros con chocolate } { tapas bars} {random Americans who  buy you roses and whom  you later marry} maybe that was specific to me {activities in caves: flamenco, night clubs } photo by Emily Guerra {wonderful Spanish women who make awesome food like s almorejo and tortillas } {views of the Alhambra from the Mirador de San Nicolas } photo by Ali Dumler {granadas (pomegranates) everywhere!} {Arab influence: the Alhambra, teterias (tea houses), the Albayzin, Arab baths } {general ama...

I lived in one place from the time I was born until I left for college, but since then I've led kind of a nomadic life: four different dorm rooms/suites during my time at Creighton ; one summer spent sleeping on the floor in a bedroom shared with my friend Marie in a house rented by some girls we sort of knew in the Dundee neighborhood in Omaha (it seemed like a good idea at the time...); 4 months in Granada, Spain ; a year in Forest Park, IL ; a year in the Field Club neighborhood and three years in the Gifford Park neighborhood in Omaha, NE; and now a year in Charles Village in Baltimore.  {this will always be "home"} {transient homes, in chronological order: top L-R: Kiewit Hall, Kenefick Hall, Davis Square, Dundee--sleeping on the floor; bottom L-r: Plaza de Gran Capitan in Granada, Opus Hall, Des Plaines in Forest Park, Field Club in Omaha} {the second-longest home: Gifford Park} When I found out on March 15 that we're heading to Vermont for t...