First day in Brooklyn.. I know it will get better...

 Wow! So we took a red-eye flight to JFK airport and arrived in New York at 4:00 am. We took a taxi to our apt and got here around 6am. We first stopped at our friends, Blair and Ashley's house to get an air mattress and our apt. key that they had picked up for us! When we got to our apt. we filled the mattress with air, laid down a few towels for Charley and took a long snoozer... well not quite 2 hours later, we woke up and were completely laying on the floor.. our mattress had deflated. awesome.

We decided to get up and get ready for the day.. and by that I mean shower in our new shower without a curtain.. water everywhere!

 Spencer had to do some work and so I walked to the post office to set up our new address and on the way I probably got 20 different hoots and hollers, honks and whistles (later I found out, I was in the ghetto of Brooklyn.. whopps!:). There at the post office, Charley had the biggest blow out of her life! All down her clothes, on my clothes, on the Baby Bjornn! everywhere.. big awesome.

I ran to the park next to us... best decision to find an apt. by the park. I LOVE it!! it's a huge park and there are people running, walking, biking and playing all over! It's a mini central park! I am in LOVE!! Probably the best part to my day!

How do I like Brooklyn so far? I have gotten numerous texts from friends asking me this... let me tell you how I feel now and then I will let you know how I feel a year from now:)

Walking around Brooklyn makes my heart rate go up... I know this will get better with time, but for some reason I feel there is always someone starring, or out to get me or waiting to jump me and steal me and my baby. Now I know this wouldn't really happen, but I did grow up in a town where 99.9% of everyone was White Caucasian and then I have lived in Utah the past 2 years where 99.9% of everyone is sweet nice Mormons. All I'm saying is that it is going to take some getting used to that not everyone looks the same. talks the same. sounds the same or dresses the same. I am not racist and I love to embrace cultures and ethnicities, but it is definitely different living in such a melting pot of people! I am excited about this change!

 Another change is the sounds around us..

Charley probably slept less than an hour all day when she usually sleeps about 6 hours throughout the day for her naps. This whole living in an apt. on a street with people yelling on the sidewalk, people honking, ambulances going by, dump trucks making noise, airplanes flying over head and construction workers drilling below is going to take a LOT of getting used to. Hopefully it will become white noise for her and she can sleep a little more soundly at naptime.

I know I will look back on this day and it will be funny in years to come and be another story of our great adventure.. but right now it's just me telling myself that it will get better... that I will come to love Brooklyn and the people and sounds around me!

Oh the learning and growing I have to do!