Hey everyone! So, Jon and I decided it would be a good idea to start a blog to let everyone know what's going on with us this summer. We moved to Norfolk, VA on Thursday the 22nd, and now we're just working on getting moved in and organized. Our apatment is in an area of Norfolk known as Ocean View. We are a five-minute walk from a community beach on the Chesapeake Bay and about a half a mile from the Ocean View Park Beach where there are weekly concerts in the gazebo. Ocean View has many very diverse neighborhoods, and will be an interesting place to spend the summer. Jon doesn't start work until next Monday, so we have a little time to relax and explore the area.
Currently, we have no internet at the apartment, so any blogging we do will have to be done from the library down the street from our apartment until at least Thursday. It's definitely different having no internet or cable at our apartment. :-) We pretty much get all our information from one TV station, occasional visits to the library and our new GPS unit.
I think the GPS has been the most useful thing we brought with us on this trip. One cool thing it did was help us find a church in the area. Sunday we attended Ocean View Baptist church, a Southern Baptist Church within walking distance from our apartment. We quickly made friends with the youth pastor and his wife (she greeted us at the door when we came in) and a local family invited us to a BBQ Sunday evening. We actually feel like we know people here now: a good feeling.
So, yesterday was Memorial day. You would think we'd find some things to do in a military town on Memorial day, right? We decided to go to Virginia beach and take in some free concerts on the boardwalk. It was a great plan, but unfortunately I made friends with a bee in the parking lot as we got out of the car and my foot was put out of commission for the day. So, we headed back home and had a nice picnic on the Ocean View Community beach near our apartment.
So, overall, it's been a relaxing way to move to a new location. We're both really glad that we have an extra week to go shopping and get settled before Jon starts to work. Hopefully we will get internet service at our apartment soon so we can post some pictures so you all can see where we live. It's going to be a great summer!
~Rachel
Our summer address:
9260 Chesapeake Blvd.
Apt. #5
Norfolk, VA 23503
