Ticket Booked.

Well, I have my ticket booked to return home for the holidays. I'll be making my departure down there on Dec. 18 and my return is expected (although not yet bought) Jan 1, 2009. So i should have about 2 weeks to spend time with all the people I love and miss from the SoFla area. I have to say, I'm rather excited. I've actually always wanted to be able to come "home for the holidays" so its pretty exciting to me.

As it gets closer I'll start talking to everyone to see what the best dates are to see people. I do know that I'm probably spending Christmas Ev, Day and Post in Orlando. So other than those days I'm pretty free.

I look forward to seeing everyone in December!

Finally Starting

On Tuesday I finally began my internship site. And by that I mean I went to orientation. It's interesting working for such a huge facility. I've never worked somewhere so large. The site, Tewksbury State Hospital is a government funded facility for those that need specialized long term care, or for those that have no benefits. It's an interesting place and I can already tell that I am going to learn a lot. I'm a little nervous about working with adults, but it was the same thing when I started working with kids, and I loved that. One thing is for sure, I'll either love it, or I'll go back to working with kids. I'm so interested to see how its all going to unfold.

I'm most excited about the space we have. My site supervisor is really nice and encouraging and I look forward to working with her. Just today I started to get excited about all the possibilites of the space and the site.

There'll be more updates as I learn more.

Apple Picking

(Our Bounty)

I've heard in these parts that a big part of fall time is going apple picking. Today James and I had some free time to get out on the bike and go out and try this festive activity. We picked a small orchid, but it had numerous types of apples: Gala, McIntosh, Honey crisp, Red Delicious and many more. We took home a peck, which is 10 lbs. of apples, the smallest you can take. To get to where the apples are you park your car (or in our case the motorcycle) at the farm stand and then they give you a hay ride out to the orchid. The best part was trying different apples as we walked along. Neither of us knew much about apples, but we got a good lesson today. It felt like being in the garden of Eden; picking from such an abundant selection.

(James and I on the hay ride out)

(Trying to decide which apples I want)
(James carrying our peck of apples in the orchid)