Have you ever found yourself in LAX beside these 1964 tile murals? They bring me right back to childhood: I vividly recall walking past all of these colors, running my hand along the tiles (being annoyed when I had to stop because someone was coming from the opposite direction), and actually thinking they looked sort of old and funny. They seemed dated in that way that you don’t appreciate as a kid.
For some reason I hadn’t been around them in years. I don’t think the airlines I fly most often (Jet Blue and United) use the Terminal these are in (Terminal 4?). I figured they had been removed in a renovation. I can’t tell you how happy I was when Aron and Hudson and I ended up in here all alone when we flew to California for Christmas. I’m so glad they’re still there–and now I love how dated they are (in that way you really appreciate as an adult). Of course, oddly enough, their color-blocking motifs are back in style!
Aron is wrapping up his last day at Tisch–the NYU hospital–today and moves on to his last rotation of his chief year at Bellevue next week. Only one more rotation and he is done with his residency! But to be honest, finishing this rotation at Tisch feels almost as momentous. Yesterday we said goodbye to him at 6am only to see him again when he finished his last case at 9:30pm, just to give you an idea. As you can imagine, I’m so excited those long days are numbered. And I’m looking forward to celebrating this little transition this weekend! Hudson is just being the most fun ever (I really think these past two weeks have been my favorite yet: so many smiles, crawling all over, pulling himself to standing… I think he’s happier to be getting all around and into trouble), and I want Aron to get to enjoy it all, too.
And maybe then I can get to some of those other things I’ve been hoping to share… (For one, Hudson’s and my little Leap Day adventure.)
Hope you have an exciting weekend in store!
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Oh my! This is wonderful. Beats the grey carpet at Heathrow!
Absolutely love those colors and design on the wall! what a happy post.
Congratulations to Aron! What a fantastic time in life for everyone! That will be so much fun for him to get to spend more time with you and the little man
And allow me a moment to be completely thrilled at your beautiful grammar (yes, grammar) when you said, “Hudson’s and my…”. I feel like that is one of the easiest things to mess up and most people I know would write “Mine and Hudson’s” or “Me and Hudson’s” or, worst of all, “Hudson and I’s”… Gah! Thank you for your beautiful writing!!! haha.
love how funky the colours are!
Congrats to Aron AND you for surviving the very long and grueling residency road. We are looking forward to the end of my husbands intern year in June and then to the promise of what radiology residency holds. Seeing someone make it to the end gives us hope!
How fun and cheerful. So happy your husband is almost finished…great days ahead, and your Hudson is precious!!
LAX generally feels like a battle haha, but I do love the aesthetic surprises. Your pictures are so pretty! What a lovely moment to have captured
if I may ask, what’s aron’s plan after this? fellowship? job? staying in nyc? this VA urology PA is dying to know!
i just KNOW i would have been enticed by these as a child. and annoyed that someone would come the opposite way… unless perhaps if it was another child… a fellow conspirator.
So funny. I walk past these walls at least once a month, but I’m always in too big of a hurry to appreciate them. They seem more special now that I know how long they’ve been there without being sacrificed to construction!