Giving Thanks

So I just got back from a weekend in Ireland with a colleague from AUC who is also here in the UK for her third year. It was a good trip to Dublin and parts beyond, where I got to visit my cousin in Dublin and a friend, albinoblackbear, in her new life as an irish med student. I met ABB online, and then in person when she came down to the island to check out the Caribbean med school thing. But she decided to go to Ireland instead...

While in Ireland for the weekend, I cooked a big pot of gravy for a 50-person Thanksgiving extravaganza during which we introduced the wonders of Canadian Thanksgiving to some real Irish med students, went to the Cliffs of Moher (again, although this time on a spectacularly sunny day), and hung out with some really cool people! We pissed off the GPS computer lady by making too many wrong turns in the middle of nowhere, and for revenge she led us astray in a scene that wouldn't have been amiss in a Jason Bourne movie...

I managed to catch a cold, which I am successfully fighting...so far. And am now back for my last two weeks of surgery. Wow! How time does fly. And how little am I looking forward to the next two weeks!