To Great-Grandmother's House We Went

After our visit to Colorado in November, the Korson clan returned to New York for exactly one day. We unpacked, re-packed, rented a car, stopped off for lunch with Great-Aunt Gwen and Great-Uncle Fred, and then made our way towards Amherst, Massachusetts.

Here we spent a lovely and very memorable evening with Great-Grandma Sabra. Sabra was, naturally, enthralled with Anika (her first great-grandchild) and the feeling was apparently mutual.




After we departed Amherst, we drove up to Hanover, New Hampshire, where Andrew interviewed at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. To my shagrin, the only photo we managed to take during the subsequent two weeks was this one of Andrew teaching Anika (who is sitting in her bumbo seat) to operate a remote control.


I swear: TV is not something we encourage or do often!

Anyhow, in the days that followed, we spent two very nice evenings with family friends near our place in New Hampshire before making our way to Boston. In Bean Town we spent a week with another pair of extremely accommodating family friends in Cambridge. While there, Andrew interviewed at Boston University and two hospitals affiliated with Harvard (Beth Israel Deaconess and Mass General). Although it was cold and the city was a navigational nightmare, Andrew came away very impressed with the Harvard programs, and we agreed that Boston is a livable place. As it stands, these two remain very high on our list, but we're still not really ready to declare a favorite.

At the end of the week, we returned to Brooklyn for four precious days of home time (during which we mostly just collected ourselves) before once again boarding a flight--Anika's 5th--for Colorado...