Matt, Traci, and Clark Ragas live in Chicago.
Matt is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, though he called the Sunshine State home for over a decade before moving to Chicago. Traci hails from St. Petersburg, Florida and has never lived more than 45 minutes from the Gulf of Mexico.
Clark originally hails from - well, we aren't totally sure. We're just blessed to have him in our family. He's a "rescue dog" as we say. :)
Here is where you can learn all about our new life in the big city.
Last Tuesday we enjoyed a celebration lunch at the Paramount Grill after my dissertation defense.
At a work event, this past weekend, I was able to knock one more thing off my To Do While We Live in Gainesville list:
Meet and a get a picture with the UF Mascot Albert!
We went apartment hunting this weekend in Chicago.
Some of the places we saw were amazing, impossible to describe. One apartment looked down onto the El, where several trains all meet together down in the Loop. It was a beautiful, snow covered view, onto a busy, bustling city. Some were lofts, one had a pool, and several had views of the lake and river. But after seeing a million units, (probably more like a dozen) we got lucky and found our perfect new place. Two blocks from the Red Line, across the street from a main bus stop, with an in-unit laundry and indoor parking spot (two hot commodities!), and a very short car ride to Target and grocery stores. Here are some pictures of our new apartment!
We've been meaning to post these. Probably our last Gator sporting event before the big move. We caught the Gators-Vandy game two weeks ago at the O'Dome. They didn't pull this one out, but they still squeezed into the tournament.
