Air Force Life & Scottsdale

 Hello from Scottsdale! Just thought I would give a little update. After a week of orientation and hospital training, I started my first shifts as an RN. For the next 3+ weeks, I'll be on a med-surg unit at the hospital about 10 minutes from our hotel. (I have a few scheduled days on the OB unit coming up as well :). So far all is good... I just need a little more time to get comfortable, but I don't think that will take long. I look forward to the challenge and I'm excited to keep learning.

Since we all had last Saturday off, we decided to climb Camelback Mt here in the valley. It was a great climb, with beautiful sites.

A view from mid-way up the mountain, or so we thought

It's a little different landscape down here...

Little did we know, we only made it about 1/2 way to the summit before turning around (Sarah came back to complete the climb, and apparently it turns to straight vertical climb where we turned around).

Next up: more shifts and looking forward to time off. I might tag along to Las Vegas with Sarah so she can meet the movers with her things. Otherwise, I still appreciate any mail :). We're looking into more mountains to hike and we started a sort of 'bucket list' for our time here in AZ. It's hard to believe we're down to almost 7 weeks!

In other news: Cody has been VERY busy at the course (and apparently will be from here on out). Lots of all-day shifts with tournaments and outings. He did purchase his plane ticket to Anchorage for April 16th. If all goes well, he'll be there just in time for a meeting his new employers would like him to be at. Well, that's if he can get a rental car and board Caillat all in time to get to the meeting. We'll have a lot to sort out once we get up there, especially since I learned today that I might beat our household goods up to AK...but hopefully not.

I best get to bed, for 5:00am comes early... wishing you all warm thoughts, for it's only about 75 here :)