Vacation is almost over :(

With a few days left of summer vacation, I find myself wondering how in the world I am going to be able to gear up to work again?!?!?!?! Just kidding...I'm sure I'll find a way. Lauren started her new job last week at a private practice and splits her time between the two offices in Pleasanton, CA and Livermore, CA. She sees about 20 patients a day and enjoys it very much.

I will be going back to the same high school that I worked at last year, Monte Vista High School. I am looking forward to going back, but it has been nice to have the last few months off. I know that I should be lucky that I even get that much time off!

The last few weeks, we have managed to do a few fun things though. Lauren was the camp doctor and I was a counselor at our annual church camp which was a lot of fun...but very exhausting! The first camp was for the middle schoolers in the church and there were about 200 kids there! The second camp was for high schoolers and there were only about 120 of them (which is still a lot).




We also got a chance to go to a SF Giants baseball game to try and catch Barry Bonds record breaking home-run (it didn't happen...) We still had a lot of fun going into SF for the night and hanging out at the ballpark.



This weekend we have our annual Church conference that we have at the end of each summer. We are both looking forward to getting away for the weekend and seeing friends that we haven't seen in a while down in San Jose, CA

Summer

So it has been a while since I last posted anything on here. There has been too much going on! We did just move into an apartment in Dublin, CA which was approximately 20 miles south of our place in Walnut Creek. Lauren is going to be working at a private practice about 5 miles from where we live starting August 6 which means...residency is over! She has defintely made it through a tough time.

We had a relaxing vacation at the end of June down in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico where we were at a resort for 7 days. We had some fun adventures including swimming with dolphins for the first time (amazing) and a canpoy tour with Los Veranos where we were gliding through the Mexican jungle at heights of 500 feet!



After Mexico, we came back for a few days before heading down to Orange County, CA to spend some time with Lauren's family for the 4th of July. We had a lot of fun down there as well hanging out by the pool and just relaxing. We went up to Hollywood one night and saw a boradway play called
Wicked. It was my first ever musical and I was impressed! That was truly amazing.

We also went down to San Diego one day to visit Lauren's brother who is interning at a law firm there for the summer hoping to get a job offer before he starts his final year of law school at Columbia University.

Since we've been back in town, we have been going to SF Giants games, hanging out by the pool, and volunteer coaching a middle school bball team for our church. A few more weeks of vacation and then it's back to the grind.