Week 3 of NY: Manhattan and Fire Island

Here are some pictures of our latest adventures. We took a trip to the city to go to the Manhattan temple. It was awesome to leave the noisy streets and enter a holy place of peace and comfort. I couldn't have picked a more needed place for the house of the Lord. It was simply beautiful.

After the temple we took a stroll around central park. It really is huge! Here's the city at dusk.
Today marks the 3rd day in a row that it has been somewhat sunny and not rainy in NY since we've been here. So we took advantage and headed to Robert Moses beach on Fire Island. Below is the lighthouse that was built in 1856. Little did we know that there was a nude beach there too and not just a lighthouse. Ha. Weird. Gross.

Finished!

This week I completed my internship with the DeKalb County Health Department with over 200 hours put in. It feels great. Wahoo! Like most interns I didn't get to do a ton of things but let me mention some highlights:

• My favorite part was helping my supervisor teach child seat classes for underserved women. Most of these women were refugees from other countries and were so grateful to learn and to receive a car seat.
• I collected data and designed a lot of materials for the county website on injury prevention (like poison prevention, bike safety etc.). None of it is posted on there yet but sometime soon.
• I got to help organize the annual "Walk to School Day" that is coming up in October. Its a great way to get kids to exercise and have safer communities so they can walk to school.

The best part of this is I only have 9 credits left of school and I'll be a graduate!

Long Island

As many of you already know, we have moved to Long Island for the rest of the summer. I was a little shell shocked at the idea of living so close to NYC at first but it's not at all like I was expecting. The area is very suburbanish and spread out. Our apartments are in Bellport which is just south of Medford on the map above. We are about an hour from NYC. My brother Jake said Jared planned it this way so he could watch the yankees play. LOL. Yes we will be going to a game or two. And yes I get to continue my internship with the health department via long distance-so that is quite a blessing. Here are some pics of our first week here:
Here is our cute townhouse we get to live in while we are here. It has two bedrooms and two baths so plenty of room for visitors! Hint hint:)
This is the view outside our bedroom window. Very pretty minus the only mountain on Long Island, aka giant landfill. Everyday I watch dump trucks unload tons of garbage up there. Crazy.
We took a trip to Cedar Beach on the South shore of LI. The sand was so soft! The water was cold but that didn't stop Jared and our friend Daniel Bridge. We had a good time digging up sand crabs. Man they dig fast!
This is a good look for you Daniel.
The boys dug a hole that was at least 4 feet deep by 6 feet. So I buried them in it. Ha
The Atlanta temple. We will miss Atlanta but we are looking foward to a fun summer here!