Our first week!

At the Navy Pier

We have now been in the Windy City for one week, and so far things have gone well! :)

Preston with a Tesla Roadster (all electric)

This past Friday our friend Kat was in town. We enjoyed having her as our first guest in the home.  We hung out downtown around the Navy Pier and we got to eat some of the famous Garrett Popcorn! We also visited the "Cornerstone Building", which was neat because it had stones from all around the world embedded in the side of the building. We were able to find the stone from Tennessee -- from Cumberland Gap!   There were also some very odd looking fountains where large faces spit out water :-/....it looked like what city kids call their public pool! JK

Preston, Kat, and Krystal

 

Cumberland Gap stone in the Corner Stone building

On Saturday, Preston and I went to a picnic that he had for his internship. We met the other people who will be in the cohort with Preston. The picnic was intended to say goodbye to students leaving their internship and hello to the students coming in to the internship. It was so nice to see the supervisors and others praying over both sets of interns. They seem like great folks and I believe that Preston is going to have a wonderful year!  The picnic was in a suburb of Chicago and so when Preston and I left we decided to take a look at Goodwill there...and we found me a nice winter coat and Preston a great winter hat which will cover his ears!

Strange face spitting out water

Garrett Popcorn..Chicago mix is Cheese with Caramel

Looking over the tracks...in the city

We are getting settled into the house and neighborhood. Our street had a block party on Saturday and we met a few of the neighbors. We are also getting more familiar with the streets and the L system...but have a lot to learn! Little things make us feel like we are more and more becoming Chicagoans...like riding the L system without having to look at a map or getting our Chicago library cards, purchasing heavy winter garments, speaking Spanish, or buying groceries at the local market...very weird to be making this our home.

Today Preston officially started his internship, and it was a day full of orientation type events. I am currently still looking for a job.  I have an interview set up for Wednesday afternoon for a Bilingual Patient Advocate, and the location where I interviewed in July said that they would be calling me to set up another interview.  We are prayerfully trusting that God has a perfect plan!

We live in between two L stops, and this one has the prettiest view.

  

This is "The Bean," a huge reflective bean near Millennium Park.  Many people take weird photos here.

Though we are country folks at heart we are enjoying our time here in the City and we hope to find it a fruitful and adventurous year!

A cool key chain map of the L system :)