Fright Night Delight!

We've been laying low for the past few weeks, trying to stay on top of things at school. This last week brought Halloween and memories of last year's, which we spent with Greg and Brianna.

Now it's a new year, in a new city, with new friends!

We had some of them over earlier this week to carve pumpkins.

On Halloween we stayed inside and made caramel apples with some more friends, while passing out candy.

It's funny though; kids around here don't say "trick or treat" when you open the door. What's up with that?

Bike Rides!

We have been enjoying a new hobby whenever Austin needs to take a break from school. We pack up our bikes, take them over to the beach, and ride as far as we want! Today we rode north for about 4 miles, and 4 miles back.

Mystery Spot

This weekend, while exploring downtown LA, we stumbled across a spot featured prominently in one of this summer's movies.

Panorama of the view from the spot (taken with Austin's phone).
Can you guess the movie this location is from?

Just in case you need more help...
Here we are at the spot

And here's the spot from a little farther away.

Good luck!

Back to School

Guess who just started her classes as a structural engineering graduate student?

Updates

Just a few updates on us, nothing too amazing:

Schools continues on for Austin. It's a lot of work, but he loves it.

We just got him a new laptop to stay on top of things (see above).

He just applied for selectives (that's what they call electives in medical school).

He's hoping to work in the bone marrow transplant center, but it's on a lottery and probably not too likely to happen.

Even though we live close to family now, Stephanie is the only one who likes us enough to come visit.

We went to In N Out with her this week. UCLA has one of only three uniquely laid-out In N Out locations. The one here was designed by Kanner Architects.

Amid all the craziness, we still find time to go to the beach (not that hard when we're only a 10 minute drive away). Here's the amazing sand castle we made on Saturday.

Med School - Week One Done

Austin finished his first week of medical school! He was really excited to start and is loving it so far. There are many things to get during the first week like books, scrubs, a stethoscope and other scopes, white coat, badge, etc.

Here is Austin trying on his scrubs:

This is his favorite part about them:

On Friday night there was a White Coat Ceremony in Royce Hall at UCLA. This is when the students receive their white coats which represent humanism in medicine and also take the Medical Oath.

Here is Austin receiving his white coat (aka "being cloaked"):

The two of us after the ceremony:

Lots of family came to support Austin (including Ryan and Christian who were more interested in finding the food than taking pictures):

I'm so proud of Austin--he has worked VERY hard to get here!

No Summer Bummer For Us!

We've had several people visit us here at our new home.

Greg and Brianna stopped by on their way through California. The wanted to show us some property they're thinking about buying...

After BH, we went down to Universal Studios and caught a taping of the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien. So Awesome!


Then Jeff and Stephanie came up to check out the Museum of Tolerance, and other sights too.

We visited Griffith Park...

... and got really close to the Hollywood sign.


Jeff actually hiked up to within a few hundred feet of the sign, but was turned away.

We've been having a great time playing around in LA since we moved in. Now we're trying to squeeze every little bit out of these last few days before school starts for Austin on Monday!