Colony Inn Breakfast

Sorry, the title of this post has nothing to do with anything I'm about to say, it's just 3 words I like to occasionally ruminate over.

I'm glad to hear everyone is beginning to get settled. I guess it may take the rest of the summer for things to really get there, huh?. With the Reynolds moving to their real home and all the Jacksons remodeling. It was great to hear from you all recently, I already miss you guys huge. We need to talk sometime soon. Couple of thoughts: Europe sounds like it was . . . fun. We'll keep those tips in mind should we need them someday! Brandon sounds like he is working like mad (I'm sure Rob is, too). Just remind yourselves guys, how many people would give anything to be in your spots.

Anyway, I don't have anything too profound to say today. Things are great in Spokane. Alisa is now officially over her dreading the 2 moves, skeptical of living somewhere only 1 year, etc., and is loving it here. My program is great (private hospitals rule). I kind of feel like a 4th yr student still. My year consists of 13 different 4 week rotations. They gave me radiology to start, follwed by general ward medicine (but only 1 month of it all year!), and a bunch of stuff after that. They treat us well, we have tons of nice benefits (food, PDA's, etc), and so I don't think I could have ended up in a better program for me for my first year. Spokane and Coeur d'Alene and the area around here are awesome. I feel all this pressure to explore everything since we have such a short time, so we are working on it.

Hawaii update: I STILL can't quite wrap my mind around how fun that vacation was. I noticed a list of top 10 summer beaches on Yahoo this morning and Kaanapali was #1. I clicked on it and one user comment communicated simply but accurately exactly how I feel. "If you are going to travel to one place during your life time, maui is the place to visit. after visiting maui you'll see the world entirely different. make sure to go for five or six days so you can see the entire island. can't wait to go back." Amen to that. The more I think about future vacations with you guys, the more I think that Maui may not be topped. Maybe we should go back (I'm not talking about istead of our Meditteranean cruise, I mean future trips after that). Speaking of Hawaii - we need pictures! Remember, we would love copies of ALL the pics you all took (OK, I guess you can exclude any of yourselves that you hate, but that's all!)

That's about it. Have fun! Let's talk on the phone sometime.