Our poor car. :( On the weekends we are allowed to park our car in front of our apartment building. Unfortunately most of the free spots are under the poop trees. We left Bruce under one of these poop trees on Saturday night, and when we walked out of our apartment building Sunday morning we found this lovely sight.

We were so embarrassed that we refused to park Bruce in the church parking lot and opted instead for the street.

As you all know, the BYU game was on Saturday night, and since they were playing such a big team Josh and I were lucky enough to get to watch it. So for fun we decided to make the special pineapple/beet/egg burgers introduced to us by Rachel.

Josh's burger turned out to be quite large. :)

So, of course, I had to record him eating it. (He did much better than I expected.)

Since we've been saying we were going to do it for a while now, Josh and I finally took a walk and snapped a few pictures of our new Virginia home. And now we will grace you with them...

Here is Josh pointing to our apartment building from the Capitol's sidewalk.

A beautiful panoramic from the Capitol.

Some more.

Just trying to fit in with the other statues.

Here we are on Cary Street. We love the cobble stones and I made Josh go stand by this fountain as if we were in some foreign country with cobble stone streets and beautiful fountains everywhere... but we're not. It's just Virginia.

Josh pointed out this wonderful saying the fountain had engraved on it. ...? It seemed a bit random.

This is where Josh walks everyday on his way to classes.

And here is where Josh has all of his classes. The EGYPTIAN building.

Here are some of the statues I was talking about, as well as a really cool church just behind the capitol.

A fun little walk way past the capitol. Here all the squirrels gather and feast in the garbage bins.

100%!

That's right! Josh took the first two tests of his medical college career, and his very first score? A 100. :) (We know he did well on his other test too, but he still hasn't received an official score for it.) I think he felt on top of the world when he found out. ;)

Yay Josh!

We Have Somewhere To Eat

We finally got our table!

... oh wait, it's damaged. :( That's right. After waiting patiently for our table to arrive we opened up the box to discover a chewed up table top and two damaged stool seats. We were a tad bit annoyed, but contacted the company we bought it from and they have been working with us to get us a new one. However, Josh and I are impatient and we feel we've lived without a table for long enough. So, instead of taking the whole set apart, shipping it back, waiting for a whole new set to come, and then putting everything together again... plus being true Josh and Sydney style, we've decided to get 15% off of the purchase price and just live with what we have been given.

Other than the damage, Josh and I are very pleased with our purchase. It's just the right fit for our little apartment and the colors look great with everything else.

So, here we go. Here is our horrible "before closet." One shelf to hang our clothes on. We were shoving as many clothes as we could into our dresser, and the rest we were forced to throw random places in the closet.

TA DA! Our fantastic "after closet!" We finally made it to Lowes where we picked up a new rod. Then Josh removed the previous shelf and raised it so we could put the second one below. Now we can fit more clothes in this closet than we could in the last one we had! (Pictures don't quite do it justice, but we love it.)

While at lowes we also found some tools to build josh a tie holder. It works great, looks great, and fits all his ties! And it's the picture that makes it look crooked. We didn't hang it that badly. :)

Installment #2 of Joshua and Sydney's Apartment videos has now been filmed. We decided to do it late Sunday night. We should have done it during the day, but that's how it goes. Enjoy our weirdness.

School is pretty tough, but definitely do-able. We'll see how I feel about that when I get to

Anatomy and such. Syd is going on a "trial" dog walking trip with her future employer. Things are going pretty good.
For those of you who didn't know, this apartment is much different than the apartment we originally were going to move into. That one won't be finished until November, so we found a different place. We really like it a lot so far. It's only a 10ish minute walk to school for me.

White Coat Ceremony

Today was the White Coat Ceremony and boy was it exciting. I felt like a celebrity with all those Mom's pointing their cameras at all those new medical students as we walked by. You can see me putting on my prestigious white coat in the following video.

It's a relief and kind of a shock that it's already here and the next big thing is for classes to start on Monday. I'm incredibly nervous at the same time as I'm really excited. Sydney and I love Richmond so far. We WALKED to a restaurant tonight to celebrate, that's how "downtown" we live. I love it. A video featuring our apartment will be soon to follow on this wonderful blog.