lying on the couch at 1422 mt. hope avenue, rochester, new york, in our little apartment when we first married. we paid $32.50 a month. it was about three blocks from strong memorial hospital where i was a medical technician and ted was a third year medical student.
we bought a really nice sofa bed with a simmons mattress and we just loved it. the old one was all lumpy and we'd fall together when we got into bed. it was a one room apt, the bathtub was about 4 feet long and we had to get all squnched up if we wanted to take a bath. lived there for two years. maybe not quite that long. and then we moved to (let's see, what was the name of that street?)... east avenue? it was really a wide avenue, and busy, and it was near the genessee hospital where ted worked.

we got a better apartment in a nice part of town, we paid $50 for that apt but it was much nicer than the first one. ted was a resident by that time at the hospital.

that was in switzerland right after the war, in 1946, and we were skiing up in the swiss alps, and that was really fun. we skied practically every weekend. we had a nursemaid for john and she came with us - john was around 15 - 20 months, just a little tyke.
i loved skiing, at that time. i wasn't very good and i counted my blessings if i could get down a hill.
we lived in bern, switzerland and i remember that address, it was 75 ostring and there weren't too many americans there but we made really great friends with people at the american legation which was in bern. without these friends i would have been kind of lonesome for michigan but i really had a great time.
we were in switzerland for one year - we left new york on about labor day and came back exactly a year later, on labor day. and when we returned to new york, and passed the statue of liberty, i wept - i was so happy to be back. i felt that was the most marvelous gateway to america.
we went by boat.