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@Shannonball
I did miss the hoods and I've never had them before!
My current is my first bike with drop bars, but the bike came set up with cross levers. If you hold the bars anywhere apart from where you'd hold flat bars, you are miles from the brakes. I was going to get bullhorns with levers on the horns, but thought I'd try drops for a while, as I'd never used any before.
Well I liked them, kept them and stuck Cane Creek levers with hoods on.
The drop bar is a bit more painful on the wrists, but the variety of hand positions more than makes up for it.
As Shin says, you can get into a really good settled rhythm on the drops. And if you want be upright and look around more you just grab it like a flat bar. You got more.