Post Thanksgiving Photos

I had a great time on my trip home to California during the short break. Got to see my brothers and parents all at home. I was surprised my flights were not totally full and that only my flight back to Columbus was delayed by 20min and the flight to LA was on time.

Thursday night we went out for a family dinner, which was great. My girlfriend Ivy also came along. We watched the movie Enchanted afterwards. It was a very nice movie...very magical...almost like Snow White combined with Cinderalla.

Friday night Ivy and her roommates cooked up a mean Thanksgiving dinner! The turkey was great and Ivy made her famous cheese cake and corn cream soup (with puffly cheese crust). It was a pretty nice meal and I was very full that night. We rented a movie called "Click" and watched that Friday night also.

Then came Saturday....Ivy, my bro Jack and I decided to go to the LA Autoshow. They had a lot of new cars on display! I remember the autoshows used to be after new years, then last year they moved it up to December. This year was over the Thanksgiving holiday. I guess that's a good thing since more people were off of work. We saw the new Nissan GT-R, BMW M3 and the Lamborghini concept. It was fun...better than last year due to the variety. Ivy was my model for the majority of the day. =)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Tomorrow is my trip to LA for my Thanksgiving break. I sure hope the flights don't get delayed. It seems like so far so good and Thursday should have less travelers than today. I think my break will be pretty low key....mostly just hang out with my family and my girlfriend. My flight into LA is almost midday tomorrow, so I don't expect to do a lot of things.

In other news, I heard the price of gas this year may hit $4 per gallon. Then last night the price of a barrel of oil almost topped $100. At times like this, I wonder how it will affect the shopping season. I'm happy that I have a Prius because of this....the last time I went to the gas station was 20 days ago and I only used 8 gallons of fuel so far. But then my apartment complex is raising the fees for water utilities for next year. I'm hoping to save money on electricity this winter since it doesn't feel very cold in Ohio like I remember in the past.

Boston....WOW!

Just came back from the ACR conference at Boston, MA this morning! I spent 5 days there. It was my first time visiting Boston and I must say that it's a great city to learn about American History! I went on the Freedom Trail, which is pretty much a walk in which you just follow a red line. You'll pass by all the important sites that you read about in middle school textbooks. Come to my Picasaweb for the photos. I included some descriptions of the locations.

The ACR conference was only busy from Day 1-3. Then Days 4-5 we pretty much have workshops and sporadic lectures. We took some time in between to do sight seeing. I feel like I got a lot of return from this trip, both from ACR and also from just visiting Boston. Next year's conference will be in San Francisco!

Every night we try to go to drug rep dinners. I was kindda disappointed that my first few meals were either salmon or steak. Then yesterday, the last night, we had dinner at Morton's. I got there jumbo shrimp, crab cake and jumbo lobster!!! Boy that was the best dinner ever. Good thing I went on the Freedom trail, which took me 6.5 hours to complete. I probably burned off a bunch of calories.

If you haven't visited Boston before, I would highly recommend a few days visit. I think the best times to visit would be spring and summer since the current temperatures are freezing. My next trips will be back to LA for Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Years.

Holiday's Approaching

It's hard to imagine I've only been in Ohio for 4 months! Time really do go pretty slow here. I hope that now with my studying on track, that time will pass quicker.

Next week I'll be heading off to Boston for the annual American College of Rheumatology conference. The majority of the department is going from OSU. It's going to be a 6-day event and I hope I get some free time to study and sight see. I've never been to Boston before. Some one has told me that it's a pretty "happenin" place and that I gotta have sea food. I'm not really sure where to visit in Boston. I don't have any friends there either.

My family had just gotten new cell phone number yesterday! It looks like I have a new phone too. I'll be able to pick it up when I get home for Thanksgiving. I hope my flight, being early in the morning, has less chance of getting delayed....as would be expected on a busy travel day. My brother is gonna pick me up from the airport on 11/22 morning.