Summer Vacation
We just got back from summer vacation- a trip to Chicago for Lauren & Mark's wedding and then a little trip to the beach for some fun in the sun.
Unfortunately, we didn't take many pictures in Chicago- too busy having fun! I don't have any pictures of the beautiful bride, but she assures me the professional pics will be online soon.
Will LOVED looking out the window of our hotel onto the streets of downtown Chicago!
Hanging out downtown!
Picnic at the beach. Yum!
Swimming!
Fun at the beach!
We go to the pediatrician on Tuesday for Will's 9 month appointment, so check back soon from stats from that visit!
Labels: beach, Chicago, vacation, Will
2-Month Update
In case anyone still follows here, we haven't been posting, mainly because we don't have anything to post about. But here's a quick synopsis of the last 2 months.
We flew to KC in May and had a great week at my brother's graduation and Pan's brother's wedding. Lots of Oklahoma Joe's was eaten and Boulevard imbibed.
I flew back to KC in June and had a great time at my friend Scott's wedding.
Pan is now roughly halfway through the pregnancy. She's had a really good pregnancy thus far, in that she hasn't had much in the way of the typical pregnancy side effects. We did find out we are having a boy, which breaks the streak on my side of the family of having all girls. We're still super-excited and have begun looking harder at all the stuff we need to buy, including going to a 1 million square foot furniture store to look at expensive cribs and baby rooms. Too much.
We did fit in a trip to the beach (Wrightsville), where I managed to avoid spraining my ankle this time. We had a pretty fun trip, although we ate some terrible food along the Cape Fear River in Wilmington.
Pan is no longer an intern and is really enjoying her anesthesia residency thus far. She really enjoys the people she gets to work with and the much-improved lifestyle, compared to the first year.
That's really it. We've just been really busy with both of our jobs, traveling around a bit, and baby stuff.
Any ideas for baby boy names? I think I know my favorite, but Pan is still very undecided, so any suggestions are useful.
Labels: baby, beach, slacking, update, work
Pan and Jerm Do the Outer Banks
Pan took a week off for vacation, and we went with Mark and Patti to the Outer Banks. Nags Head, specifically; it was awesome. We actually went a couple weeks ago, but have been too busy with work to post about it.
This was the beach at low tide at night. It was a great time for finding a bunch of nice intact shells. Pan actually found her conch the next morning at low tide with a few other huge shells.
We stayed here. It was a nice place that served a good breakfast and had a wine and cheese hour. It was cool and very reminiscent of our trip to Vermont at the end of August.
This was our room. You can't really see all of it because of the nooks and crannies, but it was very old-style.
Turtles, I guess. These were at the NC Aquarium on the island of Manteo. It was a pretty small aquarium, but what they did have, was pretty cool. Lots of tiger sharks, stingrays, and what not.
I don't know how to rotate a pic on Blogger, so you'll have to turn your head sideways. This was the Bodie Island Lighthouse. It's one of 3 major lighthouses on the Outer Banks, with the Hatteras Lighthouse being the tallest. I didn't really expect to be blown away by a lighthouse, but it was actually pretty neat.
Us, enjoying the few days we spent there. It was a great time to go to Nags Head, with the warmer-weather crowds non-existent at the time. We also took the opportunity while we were there to eat way too much seafood, including rockfish, gulffish (with a gouda/bacon cream sauce and marinated tomato), shrimp (so fresh, so clean), scallops, lobster, a lot of crab, and probably a bunch of stuff that I'm not remembering. We did not buy/eat the alligator sausage that was available for purchase, though. Pan did buy plenty of "souvenir yarn" at a cool place in Manteo.
On the way back, we went through Chapel Hill and spent way too much money at Trader Joe's and spent some time in the hugely(60,000 square feet) awesome kitchen store that has everything (even Bacon Salt!),
Southern Season. It was ridiculous and a little overwhelming. But mostly awesome.
Overall, it was a great time and convinced us to come to the Outer Banks at least once a year, maybe as soon as next summer on Ocracoke Island. Thanks, Mark and Patti!
Labels: beach, food, lighthouse, ocean, Outer Banks, vacation
Beach Bums!
It makes for a good weekend when this is what you see at 10:00 on Saturday morning! We took a trip to Wilmington & Wrightsville Beach for the weekend. An anniversary trip and a "just because we live close enough to drive to the beach" trip. It took us about 3 hours and 45 minutes from our house to get to the hotel. The hotel was about 10 minutes from the beach.
We got there right around low tide, so there were tons of shells! The beach was great- perfect sand, perfect waves, not too crowded, no seaweed or jellyfish (except 1 that was washed up). It was great!
Jerm made a sand angel!
This is before the inevitable sunburns. Jeremy needs some work on his sunscreen application skills. His front and my back are a little on the crispy side.
Overall, a great weekend, until Jeremy sprained the heck out of his ankle. We weren't able to go back to the beach this morning because of it, and also because the weather wasn't looking too beach-friendly. We did manage to make a stop in Chapel Hill to head to Trader Joes grocery store. We also took a quick spin through UNC's campus and Franklin Street, which looked like a smaller version of Mass Street.
A great weekend, overall! Happy Early Anniversary, Jerm! (I start peds surgery night float on Tuesday, so I'll probably be sleeping and/or at work for our actual anniversary :()
Labels: beach, ocean, sand, vacation
Hanging out downtown!
Swimming!
We go to the pediatrician on Tuesday for Will's 9 month appointment, so check back soon from stats from that visit!
