Sunday

After 33 hours, 2200 miles, and very little sleep, Alex and I rolled in to Bend, Oregon at around 1:15 a.m. Saturday morning.  We stayed the night in the Super 8 there before checking out my new house, the hospital where I'll be working, and Pilot Butte restaurant before heading out of town west towards Portland.  It was really great to see the neighborhood.  I had been slightly worried about where I'd be living, but the area is really nice and I don't think I have anything to worry about at all.  I even met one of my neighbors, who also happens to be a nurse!  She's been practicing for a few more decades than me, but she was very friendly.  The hospital was even more beautiful than I remembered.  Something about it that I thought was cool is that there is a plaque by the main entrance letting everyone know that somewhere along the way, this hospital donated a bunch of money to some nuns in Indiana.  Now I'm not the only person or thing reppin' Indiana!

We rolled in to PDX around 5:30 and were so happy to have a place to stay for the night.  Aunt Sherri has been kind enough to give us a bed/couch and I think that I speak for both of us when I say that it was amazing to just sleep and not have to drive anywhere.  Personally, my body is just hurting a lot.  I was rotating Tylenol and Ibuprofen all the way out here from Indy for girl stuff; I'm pretty sure that my back was in a lot of pain that I did not know about until the first time that I didn't need to take anything for cramping.  It's also been a very busy, very hectic week and I've been doing okay holding myself together; now that it's over, I think my body is just falling apart.  I'll be happy to do some running tomorrow after we rest today.

This evening, we are headed downtown to go see a movie at one of the McMenamins theaters before we put Alex on a plane for Indy.  Extra Kudos to a girl who would drive with me all the way out here.  I owe her big time!