Hi to our one reader! In a fit of irony, our last blog post was from our anniversary trip to DC. Now I'm here to share the news that we're moving there! That's right, Chris and Laura are relocating to the DC area. I'll be doing a postdoc fellowship at the DOE, and we will be living in Alexandria. I just wanted to pop in with a (empty) promise that we will try to update a little more now. 

We are really looking forward to our new adventure, what with all the history and museums. I plan to fully embrace my new home. We have taken to calling Alexandria the Charleston of the North. It's got the same old town feel and even a King Street. We're also looking forward to the likely constant stream of visitors, since we've landed in a place people live to visit!

I head up there next week, and Chris will be following me at the end of the month. I was going to share a random photo of us to end this post, but I am lacking in photos right now. I'll just have to share some when we get settled!

Also, no, I don't know why the font changes halfway through the first paragraph. I just don't care right now. 

Mr. and Mrs. Hill go to Washington

Chris and I decided to go to DC for our anniversary this year, and there was more than a little nerdy museum-going and a lot of airplanes. Like this one!

 And this one.

And all these! This is the new extension of the Air and Space Museum that was built out by Dulles on enough land that they can always expand. Well, depending on the money. It's a really well done space, because the hangar allows so many layers of planes, but they have catwalks so you can get up close to the ones hanging from the ceiling. 

And this one...wait. That's the space shuttle Discovery. For reals.

Really really cool. Can't explain how cool it was to be that close to a REAL space shuttle. 

Tiles! Yay materials science!

Our hotel (go Groupon!) was only 2 blocks from the Capitol building.

Remember that hat Chris hijacked from me at Christmas? He really needed it. It was very very cold, which would have been tolerable if we hadn't been walking through the wind. But we strove on and had a good time!

And I got to use my orange coat with its marvelous tall collar.

Go tigers!

For some reason I got fixated on Sputnik on this trip. It amazes me that you could see this from earth when it's only the size of a basketball. Or a little bigger. 

While there, we got to visit some friends from Clemson who live in Maryland now, which was nice, but I didn't get a picture of them. Just take my word for it.

Oh, also, if you ask Chris about our trip, his story will likely start with how bad the roads up there are. Granted, we were in his car, which isn't exactly a floating cloud, but the roads were pretty rough.

Happy Holidays

Okay, so it's May, but I came across the holiday photos and thought I'd share. I'll do our vacation from March in the next post. :) Lucky thing I'm not paid by the blog post or something.

A few photos from Christmas at the Hills'...

Not drinking it, just making sauce. Really...

This one is my favorite, because of the photo-bombers in the background. 

Pardon the poor lighting, but this is our lovely Christmas tree with its new tree skirt. It's reversible, so the other side is green. Oh, and I made it.

Some photos of the sunrise over Mt. LeConte.

The annual hike in the woods. This year, it was actually cold, instead of being tee-shirt weather. Somewhere toward the end of this hike, Chris adopted the snowflake hat (not the one he's wearing) I had just finished making, and he hasn't given it back. This from the guy who doesn't want me to knit him anything.

Miss Wendy, rocking her new pink cowl. All the knitting ladies in the family put in a few rows to make it for her. 

We made one for Serena too, but she didn't like it. She was an excellent reading buddy in the mountains. Serena, you need a book read? Just call cousin Laura, mmkay?

I'm sure this was a serious conversation. I'm pretty sure he was giving her a talk about the safety of walking on those rocks. 

And, well, this just pretty much sums it all up. 

So, happy holidays in May!