Visit with the Korpi's

Last weekend my sister Kate and brother in law Jim and our two nieces drove down to Disneyland from Oregon. We got to spend some time with them Saturday evening....we had dinner and hung out a bit in Anaheim. It was over 100 degrees here for 3 days straight last week so they had a very hot visit to the magic kingdom! Other than that we didn't do anything too exciting over the weekend...Jason has been doing a bit of architecture studying and I've been doing a ton of physics studying (hence the very irregular blogging)! T-2 weeks from today until my physics and vascular physics mock board exam. I've heard from previous students that the mock boards are harder than the real boards - There are 4 mock exams in all, so we'll see how it goes!

On a very fun happy note...our friends Anna and Cody are 20 weeks pregnant and they just found out they are having a boy! Can't wait for that baby to be here already! We're so excited for them.

New Clinical Site Day

I started a new clinical rotation today. It is the 14th time since I've been a Loma Linda student that I've had to change clinical rotations...every 6 weeks we start a new rotation. Just imagine, it's just as fun as starting a new job: first of all how do you get to the dang place (thank you mapquest), where do I park, why am I having to go through a metal detector to enter the hospital (apparently it's a "really great area of town"), where is the radiology dept even located, there is a whole new staff to get to know, where are their ultrasound rooms, what machines do they have and how do they work, what are their protocols, where is the cafeteria, where is the bathroom, who's in charge, how do I get a badge to get from place to place, and for heaven sakes what time do I get to go home!?!?!? Oh how I long for the day when I can get to know one hospital or clinic for more than 6 weeks at a time!!!! Only 2 more clinical changes after this and then I'm DONE!!!

Don't forget to give thanks for your steady, consistent jobs - believe me it's hell starting at a new place all the time!

Planning a Trip!

Jason and I decided that we needed to plan a trip as our last hoorah, before leaving CA and going back home, and before we have to act like real adults and both have jobs and maybe even a real house and maybe even a dog (one can dream can't they!?)...anyway, so we are going to Maui. We've never been to Hawaii before but we are going on October 3rd! We are SO excited. Don't have a place to stay yet, or any plans laid in stone, but we "bought" our plane tickets with frequent flier miles so at least that portion is set. So if anyone has been and has ideas about where to go and what to see please let us know - we'd love to hear about it!

Laguna Beach

We headed to Laguna Beach this weekend. The goal was to get out of the city for a bit and get a taste of nature. We stayed at a place that was just 1/2 a block and a flight of stairs off the beach. It had limited access so not everyone and their dog (literally) were there. The weather was beautiful, bright and sunny and warm. We went for a hike at a nearby wilderness park - right before we started hiking we stopped by the park's visitors center only to hear the rangers talking about the 4ft long rattle snake that someone just found under their car!!!! AWESOME! I HATE snakes and there are lots of parks and trails that Jason always wants to go to that I won't go because of the chance of rattle snakes. "Wonderful for us, if they are flocking from the wilderness to the parking lot then how many more are waiting for me on the trail," I wondered! Thankfully no snake sightings but we did see lots of lizards (which made me jump every time one scurried away because I was certain it was a snake). It was a long hot hike but well worth it to get some "fresh" ocean air. We spent the rest of Saturday on the beach watching the surfers and searching through tide pools. We've been to the beach many times since we've lived here and although no beach here could touch our hearts like the Oregon Coast, Laguna was BY FAR our favorite SoCal beach so far.