Oh My Eyes!

I've had this speck that I see in my left eye for a few weeks. I went to an optometrist, who referred me to a retina specialist. When I went in for my appointment I had to sit through the routine eye exam, and then the doc dialated my eyes. He didn't find anything, but it was kinda cool to have huge pupils for the next few hours. Chet even pulled out his ophthalmoscope when I got home. Oh, the things one has to endure when married to a med student!

See how huge those eyes are?!

Ok, ok! These are the real ones.

I had to wear sunglasses the rest of the day!
So, I still see a spot in my eye, but at least I got to take the day off work and play some with Chet!

Labor Day

The Sandberg's invited a group of us over for a barbecue at their place on City Island for Labor Day. We decided to ride our bikes and the Hansen's went with us on their roller blades. We got to our meeting place a little early, so we messed around with the self timer on our camera. I think it worked pretty well.

It was a nice ride out to Rory and Raphelle's place. The weather couldn't have been more perfect. We each got to put together our own kabob, then Rory grilled them for us.
It was great hanging out on the lawn with everyone.

We stayed till well after dark, which made the bike ride home a little slower, but we had so much fun sharing summer stories with everyone!

Taconic State Park

The summer has come to a close, or at least the school year has started up again, so our med school friends are back in town. This means that we get to have fun get-togethers! We went camping a couple weekends ago with the Badgers and the Mangums. We stayed at Taconic state park, then hiked up to Bish Bash Falls the next morning.

The hike was nice and green. We were all on the look out for poison ivy the entire time!

Bish Bash Falls

Once we were there, the boulders in the stream presented the perfect playground.

On the hike back, Chet found this cool tarzan vine...

After we took down camp, we wrapped things up with a nice dip in the lake. It was pretty cold in that 40' deep water. We had a great time diving and cannon-balling off the dock. In honor of the 2008 Olympics, we had a relay swim with Mangums vs. Garners. Too bad we didn't have lane ropes in the lake because Spencer and Chet both took an arched course back. Fun times!