The End of Interviews

We have spent a lot of time since last July traveling for interviews. The last interviews took place in Gainesville and St. Augustine, Florida, and in Houston, Texas. Since I had not been to northern Florida before, the whole family tagged along. I mean, if we were going to end up living there, I should at least know what it is like, right? And if we end up someplace else, I've at least been able to see a lot of different places.

We spent a lot of time in Gainesville looking at real estate, but we took some time out to have some fun. While Dan was interviewing, the girls and I went to the science museum. At all of the locations we go to, it seems that we either end up going to a zoo, a children's museum, or a science museum. The one in Gainesville was small, but rather impressive for its size. Here are Alyssa and me checking out the aquarium.

They had a visiting exhibit about the amazon. Here is a replica of an anaconda, I think. The snake is thicker than Alyssa! And definitely much heavier.

Here is our little baby Abigail in front of the mastadon fossil. She does provide some perspective on size, doesn't she? Poor Abigail. At six weeks she had to do quite a bit of traveling. Most of it she spent asleep in her car seat or the stroller. She is quite a trooper, though.

The museum has a butterfly exhibit, but because we were there during the cold snap, the butterflies weren't really moving around. So, we didn't visit the butterfly exhibit, but I thought this sculpture was beautiful.

We didn't spend a lot of time in St. Augustine, but here is a picture of the oldest fort in the United States. It was built by the Spanish sometime in the early 1500's. St. Augustine is a cute little seaside town about half an hour south of Jacksonville.

So, after traveling to something like eight different states, with a search spanning almost eight months, we finally have Dan's job settled. We are moving to Greenwich, CT, about an hour from where we live now. Isn't life fun?