Here is the latest from southern California for those of you who have not given up on me ever posting anything again. Needless to say, just like everybody else,we have been pretty busy. I started my job at Corona Regional Medical Center. This is a "travel" position, which means I don't actually work for the med center but my agency, Access Nurses. My contract goes through the 11th of October, after which I hope I can work for this same hospital on a per diem bases, like one a week or so. This I would also do through my agency. Meanwhile I have accepted an "on call" position at the hospital here in Redlands, which is right up the street. I will be working for them 2-3 days a week or more, depending on their needs. Everywhere is 12 hour shifts. It is very interesting comparing and contrasting the jobs here vs Tennessee. Of course there are many many things that I miss about St. Mary's and in my opinion I feel we did in a better or more functional way, but there are some things here that I like and I have certainly learned alot. Alot of Spanish in particular!!!
I was at work in Corona, right next to Chino Hills, when the Earthquake happened. It happened so fast my brain really couldn't process that it could be an earthquake. The building shook so hard that I really thought the ceiling might come down. It was at this point that I dropped what I was doing, asked my patient if she was ok and ran out of the room to find out if a truck had hit the building or a bomb had gone off. This is when I was told "well honey, that was an earthquake". Since that time a have been in a state of subdued panic. Crazy, Crazy stuff. The scariest thing is that there is just absolutely NO warning, it just goes from nothing to everything rumbling and shaking about you in no time flat. Everyone is fine and the kids really didn't even feel it, they were in Daycamp at the YMCA in Redlands, quite a bit further from Chino. Elijah's gym is in Chino, he didn't go that day.
We took the kids to San Diego last Sunday afternoon to Balboa park, a really cool place with lots of great museums and the Zoo. We plan on returning there for Mia's birthday, to go to the Zoo. Everything was closed or closing when we got there, but it was still just fun walking around and sight seeing. We went to this playground and found this crazy little cup like thing that you sit in and spin, we snuck up on Emily and put her in it, it was really pretty funny, check out Mia's hair!! After the playground, we went to Old Town, a little historic district with shops and restaurants, this is where we will stay when we go back.
This is a picture of our lime tree in the back yard by the pool and some pretty groundcover that has many names, I like Ice Plant. I can't believe that we have a lime tree. How Fun. Corona anyone?
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