Out with the old and In with the new

This Saturday evening Douglas and I had an early dinner together at the famous Irish Pub in Pasadena, Lucky Baldwins. We are winding down now from our clinical rotations with only eight days left to go before our graduation celebration September the 2nd. The University of Southern California program of Nurse Anesthesia has been a wonderfully difficult experience. The graduating class of 2006 is just about finished with course work and will be stretching our wings shortly. Pictures of the class can be perused at flickr.

Friends of Douglas joined us at Lucky Baldwins. What made this interesting is that Sonny and Dianne will be starting “The Program” this coming Monday and are part of the Class of 2008 program of nurse anesthesia at USC. During our early dinner at the Irish Pub we discussed and rehashed the trials and tribulations of being an anesthesia resident. All of the usual subjects came up that new students have. Its great now to be on the other side of this mountain. Douglas and the girls went off for an evening of “Pub Hopping” while I happily traveled home to be there when Jennifer came home from a long day at work.

Douglas and I have been having our study sessions and dinner now on Saturday evenings for the past several months now but I always make sure that I am home to greet wifey when she arrives home from work. This past evening we finally got around to talking about future work related things. No matter where we both end up we agreed to continue to meet regularly for bicycle riding and “Pub Hopping”. Next year Douglas his mother and I are planning on riding the RAGBRAI. For those that do not know, this is one of the oldest sponsored group rides in America. The ride across Iowa will be its 35 next year and I am looking forward to this get away 7 day trip. Douglas and I have planned this now for the past year and come next July we will be flying across those rolling Iowa hills. More to follow on this one.