Good Times, Good Times

So our lives have officially hit a new level of craziness. Robert had his first big test this week and studied like a mad man all day and night! But he did amazing! Not to mention he was able to accompany a surgeon on his private jet to Indiana to do a heart transplant. He said that it was an intense experience. I wish I could have gone except I probably would of passed out during surgery.. no joke! For anyone who knows Robert and his reputation for loosing things, you will be humored by the fact that when he was transporting the heart back to NYC the surgeon asked him where the cooler (heart) was, Robert didn’t remember where he put it. Moments later he remembered that the nurse had taken it to be iced. He thought it was pretty funny. I love my dear husband but should I be worried!! jk
It has been a learning and growing experience so far and we still have a lot of learning and growing to come. The longer we are in New York the more we fall in love with it. We found out that there is a pedestrian lane on the George Washington Bridge so Robert and I have been running a crossed it often. It is nice to have the view of New York City to distract you from the pain of running :)! On the other side of the bridge in New Jersey is a big park with huge trees and cliffs. When you are there you forget you are in NYC. There were even deer in the park!!
We enjoyed having Justin and Becca Hewitt out for a visit. They stayed with us for a couple of days and we loved seeing familiar faces. We went around with them to some of the cites and went and saw Greece on Broadway.. it was great …I highly recommend it!
The most excited news yet is that Robert and I were made Aunts and Uncles for the second time in 2 months! Robert's sister Sarah had a beautiful little girl. They named her Karlie Sarah Harris! We are excited to visit them in Virginia for Thanksgiving so we can love and spoil her.

Robert's First Post

My disclaimer: This is my first experience blogging. Lindsay encouraged me to stretch myself and become a more well rounded man so here I go.

Med school has been amazing and overwhelming experience. I have enjoyed everything about it (cutting open cadavers, learning about diseases, and meeting patients). Although it can also be very overwhelming when I think about all the responsibility attached to the title of MD. I guess that is why I have about ten more years of training.
Life is very fulfilling when you are helping people, doing what you love, and being with who you love. Lindsay and I have spent some great times together and enjoy being out on our own. She is really incredible. I visited her school on Friday and realized how much disparity there is in NYC. People range from extremely rich to astronomically poor. Lindsay has decided to help bridge that gap through providing a quality education to underprivileged children in Brooklyn. The neighborhood around the school is rough to say the least. There are a lot of drug busts and gang shootings in the area but amongst all the signs of failure, Lindsay has a classroom full of children with hope.
It was a touching experience to go and meet her colleagues. It is great to see first hand that people can make a difference and give back to something greater than themselves.

Here are some pictures of our weekend (Mets game with some New York Friends, Lindsay's school)

Life in the Big Apple

We have lived here for a little over a month now it still hasn’t sunk in that we live in New York City and will be…. for 4 years! I guess it is because we have been too busy to notice. But so far, so good. This is what a normal day in the city looks like for me:

5:00 am- Alarm goes off
5:05 am- Second alarm goes off and I wake up
5:23 am- My devoted, supportive husband walks with me to the subway stop
5:25 am- We say good morning to our doorman and he replies every morning the same way “you two look way too happy for 5:30 in the morning!” and we give him a polite courtesy laugh.
5:33 am- I catch the express train to Brooklyn; if I miss this train I can kiss being on time goodbye
5:40 am- Open my current reading material and read, ready, and ready (currently reading: Nobody Don’t Love Nobody; story about an inner-city teacher.)
6:20 am- Switch to the “L” train where I am accompanied every morning by a crazy guy in all white who preaches to anyone that’ll listen. He is mad but occasionally has some insightful thoughts!!
6:25 am- Get off the train and walk as fast as my legs will move down one of the sketchiest neighborhoods in New York.
6:30 am- Teach my guts out.
5:00 pm- Look at my clock and can’t believe that the day is over and it is time to go home.
5:30 pm- Return home on the subway. It’s rush hour so massive amounts of people cram into each subway car. I am entertained by peoples’ conversations… usually about politics or…. Politics.
6:30 pm- Cook dinner… yeah you read correctly… I COOK!!!
7:30 pm- Robert comes home and we usually go work and a maybe a
-walk through central park
8:30 pm- sit in my favorite chair by the window overlooking the Hudson and debrief
9:00 pm- Shower and go to bed

The weeks go by extremely fast. Robert and I both love what we are doing. He is really busy with studying and is getting involved in free clinics, research, shadowing doctors and is actually playing a little Columbia rugby. We don’t see each other much during the week but savor the weekends and the time we do spend together. It is a good time in life for both of us and we are enjoying the adventures of chasing our dreams and being on our own. We have met some amazing people that will most likely by life long friends.

Here are some pictures of out weekend endeavors :

Robert cooking me dinner



Hanging out at Central Park




This was at Jones Beach on Long Island over Labor day. It is only an hour train ride from our house and it was a beautiful beach. The waves were huge and Robert was lovin' life! We were excited to find such a great beach and so close to where we live!