Eight Years

of adventure
of friendship
and of love.

Happy Anniversary Matt!

Us in Venice, Italy in April 2011

In London, April 2011

I'm excited to see where life takes us next and what adventures we'll have together. :)

Class Photo

Almost there.... good job Orange :)

Can you find me??

UPDATE: Here's a hint for those of you struggling to find me.... I'm wearing orange. :)

Okay, here's a true hint: right hand side, back row. Thanks everyone for playing!

On another note, I'm not a fan of emergency work. Definitely not my cuppa tea. 3 days down, 4 days to go. 

Kayaking

4 miles feels like 20 when you're sea kayaking across a channel between two island.

It was worth it though!

My friend Bryan and I decided to enter this kayak race from St. Kitts to Nevis and back. The whole thing is a fundraiser for some kid's organization thing, I don't really know anything about it though. Anyway, we thought it was only 2 miles total, then we turned up to the event to find out that it is, in fact, four miles.

We didn't win, but we didn't lose, and we had a blast. We were so awesome, we capsized our kayak at the start of the race. Somehow we made a comeback and beat a few teams!  I'm not sure how I am even typing right now though considering how sore my muscles are...

 Pre-race when we were still excited

 The kayaks ready and waiting

Still having fun after just passing the halfway mark at the beach behind us (Nevis).

The finish line is about 2 miles from where this picture is taken at about 10:00 from the bow of my kayak.

It was a gorgeous day!!

My donkey is a bad ass.

Which way do you mean that Laura??

Both.

I did an arthrocentesis today!! Otherwise known as a "joint tap". Basically, I placed a needle in one of his joints and withdrew synovial fluid, then injected antibiotics into it.

Aubie (the donkey) was a stellar patient except for anything involving his jugular. Gotta say, I don't blame him. (This is the bad ass = naughty donkey part)

After surgery, when he recovered from anesthesia I took him back out to the pasture to get some food (sugar cane grass). He walked around a bit, then went right up to the feeder where about 10 other donkeys were and pushed them out of the way to get to his share of grass. It was pretty hilarious actually, watching him throw his hind end around like a bumper car to knock the others off balance and out of his way.  (This is the bad ass = awesomely cool donkey part)

Ahhhh vet school, you make me love you even on crazy 12 hour days like today.