Isn’t my mom cute? It is Rose’s 50th birthday on Saturday, September 25th. I am flying to Seattle, then Telfer and I are driving to Richland tomorrow for the big celebration…after much planning, my sisters and I are putting on a “dinner party” for my mom and her friends. Yikes! So, we’ll see how that goes…

Telfer is in Seattle at Virginia Mason for a one-month anesthesia rotation…he’s been gone a week and I miss him! Virginia Mason has a really good residency program, so we’ll see…

This is my first meaningful contribution to our blog, and though I have been planning on writing something for several days, Andrea’s post regarding Idaho inspired me.

The picture newly displayed at the left was taken at the wedding of a medical school classmate of mine recently. As chance would have it he and I are both from Olympia, WA, went to college in Idaho (he to BSU and I to NNU), and now are classmates here in Loma Linda. It was not until California that we met but we have been traveling in parallel for some time. To complete the eerie scenario his new wife’s name is Andrea (although with subtle pronunciation differences).

–Telfer

Well, look what came over my RSS feeds this morning…an article about Idaho! And not just a potato article – Idaho is becoming more and more known for its tech companies – Micron especially and now Dedicated Devices.

When Telfer and I tell people we went to a college in Idaho, their faces express confusion – they have higher education in Idaho? But I am always a loyal (albeit temporary) Idahoan and say “Idaho is a wonderful place – I think you would be surprised.”

Anyway – I had a good weekend. Telfer played doctor nearly the entire two days, but we did go to the pool yesterday and then to In-N-Out. Very fun.

I downloaded a few of the pictures we took from the beach this weekend – they are in the new photo album, “Telfer & Andrea.” Kinda random…I like our new camera!

We are having a good, short week thus far. I haven’t seen Telfer since Monday night, so I am going to enjoy spending the evening with him. He is on a medicine rotation at Riverside County Hospital – quite busy. I think we are going to make pesto seafood pasta tonight and watch a couple of episodes of Alias (see Netflix queue). Very, very addicting show!

Telfer and I bought our first digital camera on Sunday. After much debate we decided to buy a Pentax from Costco. We had been looking at Sony cameras but…I really, really like to buy electronics/computer stuff from Costco. Not only does it justify paying for a Costco membership, but we have had nothing but good experiences – we have bought our laptop, our dvd/cd player, and now a camera from Costco. They take stuff back easily. They don’t try to sell extended warranties or other equipment that I don’t need…

So far we are quite happy with the Pentax (read the description and information provided by costco.com). We took it to the beach yesterday and had fun playing around with all of the settings. It’s little and cool-looking (Telfer’s requirements) and was decently priced (my requirements).

I am going to install all of the software tonight so hopefully I can post our beach pictures here tomorrow. Telfer worked most of the weekend but had Monday off – we went to Newport Beach and I used sunscreen everywhere but my ears…they are really burned…