Day Three, Shippensburg, PA

After having dinner is Rome on Thursday night, we started heading to the "flat lands" of Shippensburg, PA. It funny how people in the northern part of the state call this the flat lands, when really it's like the NC mountains. Of course, they also call the mountains they live in the "Hills". We arrived in Carlisle, PA around 1am and got a hotel for the night. It was only about 30 minutes to Shippensburg, but we were both beat and Doug's eye kept wanting to close. Since we had to stop for me to use the bathroom, we decided to go ahead and get a room.

This morning we arrived at Mountain View Animal Hospital, or something to that effect, around 11 am. Compared to the facilities in Rome, this is state of the art. I got to meet all of the staff here at the clinic, I think, since Dr. Amy was doing small animal today. They ordered lunch from a locale cafe and had it delivered to the clinic. After lunch we headed out with one of the vets Aaron and his wife Sarah. They showed Doug and I around most of the area north of the clinic. It was nice to have a tour guide for the second day. Aaron showed us all kind of real estate and prices on some of the house for sell. He also showed us some rental property. There are several towns and cities around with things to do. Unlike Rome there is a target about 15-20 minutes down the road, depending on where we would be living. There are also apparently several doctors around, with some specialty clinics in Carlisle and Chambersburg, both with in the 20-ish minute range.

After spending the day driving around the country side, we meet back up at the clinic with Amy and Trent. Amy and Trent are the two owners of the practice and are also married to each other. They took us out to dinner, along with Aaron and Sarah, to a nice restaurant in Chambersburg. Since we had not been down to Chambersburg, we took a tour of the city. On the way back we were all talking about Amy told us that Doug was there number one right now. This is really good news! They do have one more interview on Thursday, but Trent says he wasn't very impressed with the phone interview, so he is not expecting much from the working interview. This is also really good news! So I guess there could be an offer from here coming the end of next week. I would like to go ahead and nail down where we are going to be living. I also really like it here, and it is only about 5-6 hours from home instead of 11 hours from Rome to NC. So hopefully this girl will suck just as much as she did on the phone and they will offer the job to Doug. I can see myself living here, which will make it sad if they do not offer us the job. Plus they were offering the most money too! They also offered to let us stay here tonight so that we didn't have to pay for a hotel. So of course we took them up on the offer and now Doug is out on a call with Trent since this is his weekend on call. Hopefully he is out there impressing Trent some more so he can stay number 1.

All in all this has been a good trip and fun times. Oh, I almost forgot, I meet my first Amish man today. It was interesting. Since the weather was nice they were all out and about today. I got to see lots of horse and buggies, even one in town. This is definitely Amish country.