Cape Cod Love and Jimmy's Saloon!

Today drove back to Rhode Island to meet my in-laws for dinner before meeting all of my old girlfriends from Nursing School for drinks. On my way back home I stopped at Haley's and Chris' place. the Haley of Cape Cod Love haha! I couldn't stay long but it was nice to visit for a little while.

That night my in-laws took me out to coddington brewery for dinner, after that I met with a bunch of my old friends at Jimmy's Saloon on memorial blvd in Newport for Drinks!!

Some "shots" from the night haha!

Me, Taryn, Kate

Mary-Beth, Kate, Rob & Lisa

Shots!

The Whole Group!!!

Cape Cod Day 1

Today I woke up early and we were on the Road to the Outer Cape by early lunch. My Mom and Dad drove together in my mothers car and my brother and I drove up in my brothers/my old car. We are big believers in Toyota cars and everyone in my family owns one (except my husband, but we’ll convert him haha). When I was in college my parents bought a 1997 Toyota Corolla and I drove it all through college, it was my first car. It always got me from here to there with no problems. Now it has about 140,000 miles on it and my brother is having a good time improving it and tinkering with it. Now it has a huge subwoofer in the trunk and a new sound deck in the dashboard.

Anyway we made it up to Cape Cod around 2:00 and met up with my Grandparents and my Aunt and Uncle. We always stay at the Even'tide Motel which is a motel with cottages in Wellfleet, MA. My grandparents and my Aunt and Uncle had cottages and my parents and I stayed in a suite. It was nice and comfy. We went to Arnold's Clam Shack for dinner. It is a Cape Cod staple for FRESH fried seafood....delicious!

I took some photos of the greenery I saw at the motel, I miss maple leaves!

Scraggly Tree

Maple Leaves!

The lobby of the motel from my Grandparents Cottage

Tuesday

Today I woke up late and met Laura for an afternoon of shopping and pedicures. It was a nice afternoon to just hang and get adjusted to East Coast time. That night my in-laws came over and we had wonderful time talking and sharing my mom’s chicken potpie. My sister in law just graduated from high school so I enjoyed hearing about the commencement and her college plans. She is going to start at Gettysburg College in the fall as an English major. After they went home I went out to O’Brien’s pup and had a nice time catching up with all of my old college friends.


Cape Cod tomorrow

Flight Home

I clocked out of work at 7:45 Monday morning and my vacation officially begun!

I drove my car over to my friend Jared’s house to leave it there for the week while I was gone. I changed quick at his house so I wouldn’t have to fly in my scrubs. He dropped me off at the airport and I made it through security fairly quickly. My flight was scheduled to leave at 11:20 so I had about an hour and a half to wait before getting on the plane. Unfortunately I was going on 15 hours overnight of no sleep and I was so wired and awake that I couldn’t even close my eyes!

I crashed and burned right after the plane took off and didn’t wake up until we landed in Chicago. I had a long enough layover to get some food then I was back on the plane to Providence. I couldn’t sleep on the second flight and I just ended up reading until I landed around 10pm east coast time. My mom and dad were waiting at the baggage claim, yay! After hugs and kisses and a 20 minute car ride I collapsed into my old bed and slept for 12 hours straight.

Feels good to be home…..

Cricut Cards.

I had my preceptorship class today, went pretty well I think.

A little less than a month until I'm home in RI and eating lobster rolls on the Cape.....can't wait.....

My Cricut Expression came last week and I have been using it to make cards. I wanted to show you guys my first attempts. What do you think?

thank you card for Aunt Kathy

Note for mom

Note for M-I-L Lynn

Flight Home and SNOW!!!!

So last night I couldn’t sleep because I was lying in bed awake wondering what I forgot to pack. Luckily in that session I remembered that I forgot to pack my birth certificate. Which would have been really bad because without that we wouldn’t be able to get a marriage license! So this morning bright and early Jared picked us up from our apartment, and we were whisked off to the airport. 7 hours later we landed in Providence (also known as Warwick) and were greeted by our two mothers. It was so nice to see both of them and get lots of big hugs!

It was snowing pretty hard when we were driving home. Kyle and I just spent the whole ride home gazing out the window with huge smiles on our faces!

The only really awful part of the flight was the fact that I was having sinus problems so I had a lot of ear pain when we were making the descent. I swear at one point I just wanted to rip them OFF!

URI-PC another one bites the dust

66-65, man!

and it happened again, we were ahead THE ENTIRE GAME until the last 5 minuites, then they passed to Jimmy and he missed......man!

but the game itself was really fun anyway. It was up in Providence at the Dunk and I went with two of my Bridesmaids, Lisa MOH and Katie.

After that we went to dinner with adam, chris and haley at Mews Tavern (delicious!) then to rock and bowl with the whole gang

Bridal Shower tomorrow!

And they shall eat CAKE!

So today I had my second dress fitting and (WOO HOO) after 5 months it still fit like a glove, the hem works perfectly with the shoes I got! it's just perfect!

So after that trip to Davids Bridal I went to Cappuccino's and booked them to make my wedding cake. It is going to be 4 tiers with a swiss dot pattern, white cake with chocolate and raspberrybutter cream. I'm telling you it's the best cake I ever tasted!

and again, i didn't take a picture.....man i suck!

Come Fly with me....

Last night Kyle and I bought our plane tickets to go home for our wedding in January. I am soo excited I can't even stand it. In a little less than three months we will be married!

Only 27 days left until I go home to visit!! I haven't been home since I moved in June. (which is a while considering I have never been away from home for that long) Don't get me wrong, I love living in SD, but I miss RI too, I want to go home and hug my family! and see my old buddies! 27 Days!!!!

I am excited because one of my old friends from High School (and the best man at our wedding) will be in town the same time as me! I was a little concerned about going home so early in December because I know most people will go home over Christmas, only this year I can't take a lot of time off because I am saving all of my vacation time for my wedding. So it will be nice to have someone to hang out with