Baltimore and the East Coast beach trip

First week of August we found ourselves at Penn Station in Baltimore, a far cry from NYC's massive Penn Station we had departed from only 3 hrs before. We visited Camden Yards, the Bronsons' favorite baseball stadium and home of their beloved Orioles before flying in Bethany's Rodeo to Ocean City, Maryland for a week at the beach with the Bronsons, the Jacksons, and the Crowleys, both family friends of the Bronsons that go way back! We had a few run-ins with some rather pesky, biting horseflies that seemed to love the scent & taste of OFF! repellant, but we managed to enjoy our hard life of being at the beach in a beautiful house a family friend allowed us so graciously to use. A family vacation was great for the Bronsons all to enjoy with the many changes that are taking place in all of our lives right now!

Finally, we returned from 6 weeks of being gone from Dallas, (basically the majority of the hot summer) - we had been to St. Louis, Missouri; New York City, Amsterdam, Baltimore, and the East Coast of Maryland. We were rested from our week at the beach, but feeling rather weary of returning to once again living out of suitcases and scattered miscellaneous boxes, bags, duffels, you name it, and really missing a place we can call HOME. It has been a difficult and humbling thing to realize our need to ask people - family & friends - for help during this time. Obviously not only for financial support for our 2 years we are preparing for, but just for other means of support - a place to live, a place to store our stuff, help with packing & moving several times, getting all of our ducks in a row before leaving the country. I've had to realize again & again that I cannot do everything myself and that we have to swallow our pride many-a-time as we prepare to go and even over the next 2 years. But wait!! Suddenly Erin & Aaron are moving to DC for a new job! Which kind of foils our plan to live with them til we leave in September. However, not to worry - Brian & Katherine Steinbrueck to the rescue! Our Vanderbilt friends move to Dallas for a new job while we are gone in New York and alas! they have an extra bedroom for us. They are so kind to host us for a few weeks before we leave again to see my parents & the Rogers family at the Texas coast for the last time. So today we moved yet again - out of Erin & Aaron's house, and into Brian & Katherine's house. Andrew & Brian are currently out buying a bed for us to sleep in!