The Panos Progress: Ending 2013 as Virginians!

With a few weeks before A needed to check-in to the Navy School of Music at the Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, we spent quality time getting to know our new city! Here's the famous King Neptune statue down by the Virginia Beach boardwalk. Hello Atlantic Ocean!

Since we arrived a few days before Christmas, we enjoyed a rainy drive through a mile of Christmas lights on the oceanfront boardwalk. So pretty!

We picked a random church and attended a lovely Christmas Eve service.

The churches out here are so cute made of brick with white columns and steeples.

When a friend of a friend heard that we would be spending Christmas Day in an empty house (since our moving truck wouldn't be arriving until the 26th), this generous family whom we've never met invited us over for Christmas dinner!

We ate a delicious meal, sang Christmas carols and "Happy Birthday" to Jesus, and topped off the night with the Austrian tradition of lighting real candles on the Christmas tree. It'll be a Christmas we'll never forget. Thank you to the Wagner's for your generous hospitality!

After "camping" in our empty house for 4 days, we couldn't wait to get our household goods!

The day after Christmas, our moving truck finally arrived! All of our stuff made it smoothly across the country. It was like getting to open dozens of belated Christmas gifts! We worked like crazy for a few days until we were completely settled in.

The backyard!

And Witchduck Lake across the street from the house!

We also have a guestroom (still to be decorated!), so please come visit! We also have plenty of room for guests in our new car! After diligently researching and saving our money, we got a great deal on a 2014 Chevy Traverse! It fits the harp much better, as well as any extra visitors that come into town. :)