Chicago Visit

At the end of last week, Ethan had a fall mini break from school.   He took the PSAT on Wednesday morning, and on Wednesday night he and I headed to Chicago to do his two first college tours!

We started on Thrusday at the University of Chicago.  It has been awhile since I was on campus, and it was a lot of fun to go back.   Plus the weather was amazing.   We even visited the old medical library (which has been converted to a computer science area/maker lab!) and the building where all our medical school lectures were given.   

 

Afterwards we headed downtown, where we took a run along the lakefront and then promptly consumed all the calories we burned (and then some) at the original pizzeria uno.

The following day, we headed to Northwestern (but stopped for bunch at Walker Brothers first, of course!).   We took another tour at Northwestern, and made a stop at Jason's old dormitory.  

After the tour, we took another run, along the lake in Evanston, and then again promptly made up the calories when we met Jeff and his kids at Barnaby's for dinner.

On Saturday, we had time for a quick brunch with my high school friend Janet, her husband, and 2 of her 4 kids before we boarded the plane back to Chicago.  Both Ethan and I had a great time.   Can't believe we are doing this already!

 

San Antonio

 This past weekend, Jason and I travelled to San Antonio for our annual American Society of Anesthesiologists Meeting.    

My dad graciously agreed to watch the kids at home to make this happen.   It’s been awhile since I have been to San Antonio, but it was a fun and different place to visit, other than the weather (it was over 90 everyday)!  

Though Jason and I were both quite busy with the conference, we did have a little bit of time to hang out together which was nice.   Jason had to spend a lot of time networking for his company, and running the committee on practice management, which he chairs.  He also gave a podcast!

 I had to give two talks on Sunday.   We both got to catch up with old friends and colleagues, which is always fun.

Now time to play catchup! 

Four Eyes

 At the end of last school year, Alaina mentioned that she was having trouble seeing the board at school.   So, at the end of the summer, she got in to see an optomotrist, and indeed, she needed glasses.   (Though her prescription was not too bad at 0.75).   Anyway, she was not happy to hear that, and like probably most middle school girls, she announced that there was no way she was going to wear glasses.

The expeceted argument ensued, and in the end I gave in and agreed to let her try out contacts.   Now, she is a bit squeamish, and has never done well with eye drops, so I didnt really think that would work out.   But the optomotrist had a special "contact class", which she went too, and she somehow managed to figure out how to put the contacts in and take them out without too much drama.

I told her that she still needed to pick some glasses for "back up"--and she begrudgingly agreed after some more negotiaion.   

Fast forward a month, and the glasses arrive.  I think that they look really cute.   Well, approximately 2 days later they "disappeared".   

And since, there have been days that she has "forgotten" to put her contacts in in the morning, or my favorite, nights she has come home from school with a headache after "one contact fell out in the morning".   But I guess its all part of a learning process.

And the good news is, late last week the glasses were "found" in a paper box on her desk.  So her back up is back!