Virginia is for Lovers...they say

Things are going alright out here. Last Friday night the Larsens (Scott and DeAnne, Aubrey, and Tim and I) got together with Aubrey's roommates and had an Olympic Opening Ceremony Party! Go USA! We all wore some kind of international clothes and brought different foods. Tim and I later decided that when having international food, it's probably best to stick with one culture- though all of the food was good.

We've spent most of our time driving around, looking for apartment stuff, and applying for jobs (keep your fingers crossed!). I just wanted to list a few things about our new home...

• Falls Church has a LOT of different ethnic groups. I'm guessing mostly Asian due to the high number of Asian restaurants/markets around here and low number of stores that would be familiar to Utahns (The closest Walmart is about 20 miles away and I don't even think it is a Super Walmart)
• This area of Virginia has a really nice running trail that I like a lot. It is made from an old railroad line and has smaller, connecting trails that go all over. The main trail is almost 30 miles long!
• Our apartment is very spacious and we have almost no furniture. We need a couch...
• Even the big thrift store out here is much more expensive than the DI :(
• Our apartment complex has a pool (with the dumbest hours: noon-8pm), tennis courts, and a fitness center (If you can call a room with 2 treadmills and a bike that)
• The weather here has been very nice. No complaints there!
• The traffic here is the WORST! Tim says he can't tell if people here get a kick out of doing the dumb things to deserve the honks, or if they get a kick out of honking for dumb reasons. Scott says people here just never learned how to drive (I'm not prejudice, but I wonder if it has to do with other ethnicities and driving in other countries then coming here...)
• The BEST thing is that Tim and I were looking for furniture stores last Saturday and we couldn't find any for a while, and all of a sudden, we could see the Washington Monument. We ended up near Arlington National Cemetery, crossed the river and we were downtown with all of the tourists! It was only about 10-20 miles away! I'm looking forward to being a tourist this week too. Then I'll turn into a Local.