Oooh, shiny

I am making the jump into the 3G world with my new phone, the MyTouch, reviewed here. That's even the color I got, "merlot" :-) I'm very excited, way more than I should be about a phone...it comes next week, so I'll be busy learning how to use it just in time to go to Hawaii where the 3G stuff won't work because they don't have a network there yet.

Mom and Aunt Mare left yesterday morning. We had a very busy trip. Highlights included a Ride the Duck trip around the city; Pike's Place Market with drinks at Kell's bar but no mini donuts; U Village shopping with dinner at the Ram; a day at Greenlake people watching; Mom and Aunt Mare's solo trip to the Space Needle; my graduation ceremony followed by a lovely picnic at Jay's office; and a brunch cruise on the Argosy around the Sound. Whew! I think everybody was pretty warn out by the end of the visit. Luckily the weather cooperated and it was pretty nice the whole time they were here. It continues to be warm and sunny, and there are actually supposed to be a wave of 95 degree days at the end of the week and through the weekend. I think I'm going to stay in and sit in front of a fan.

Visitors

Mom and Aunt Mare arrived almost on time, at 10:10 yesterday morning. We picked them up from the airport, went home so they could drop their stuff off, and then went to BlueWater Bistro for brunch. It was a gorgeous day yesterday so after eating we headed for downtown and some touristy fun. We went on the Ride the Duck tour which was a really good time. We had a one hour tour of the city followed by about half an hour in the water on Lake Union. The tour guide was very upbeat and kept everyone laughing. By the time we were done though, the visitors were worn out so we came back home so that they could nap. After a light dinner, everyone enjoyed the Harper's Island finale and then bed.

This morning I woke up before everyone, which was a surprise because I definitely expected Aunt Mare and Mom to be up way before me due to the time change. Turns out they didn't get up until about 8:30. It was pretty gray and overcast today so we did Pike Place Market since you can stay undercover if it rains. Then I took them to mass afterwards and made some good chicken corn soup.

Tomorrow I'm back to work and I think their plan is just to stay home and rest :-)

Update as requested.

I apologize, I've been remiss. Seems since more and more people are using facebook, I've been mostly updating that and not beaglehaus. However, I have been asked for a blog update and I am nothing if not accomodating.

Let's see...it's been since San Diego and my birthday weekend since I updated. I started a new clinical site since then. I'm at Swedish Hospital in the Perinatal clinic, so I do OB all day long. And I love it! I thought maybe it would get boring after a while but so far it is not at all boring. I really like the sonographers that I work with, and the doctors are fantastic. It's cool because the docs are also these ladies obstetricians most times so they are pretty familiar with the cases and why the scans are being done. It's a high risk site, so we get a lot of older women or women with physical or chromosomnal problems with their babies. It's very interesting.

Mom and Aunt Mare are coming tomorrow for 10 days. I graduate on July 18 so they're coming in for that. The weather is supposed to be okay while they're here...mostly in the 70s with a showery day here and there. We pick them up at the airport at 9:40 tomorrow morning. I rented two single rollaways for while they are here, but in typical Weiler luck, when Meg went to pick them up they only had a single and a double. That won't work of course, because there is not enough room in the back bedroom for those two beds. We have to take the double back tomorrow and pick up another single. Like I told Jay, at this point I just heave a big sigh because I'm getting so used to things not going right. He says everytime I sigh it's the sound of my soul dying just a little more :-)

Our friend Simon is staying with us for a few days while he sorts some things out in his life, but unfortunately he'll have to vacate the spot by tomorrow so we can get ready for Mom.

And it's countdown to Kauai time - 30 more days!