Birds and Beaches

I cannot believe that I have been in the States for more than three weeks now! I guess it is true what they say that time flies when you are having fun ;) 

This Tuesday one of the doctors was leaving to France for a bicycle ride trip so I baked her a cake to say good by. The famous "orgasim" cake haha. It was a hit at the hospital.

I was "working" late shifts at the hospital this week because another extern was there during the days. It was really fun to see the variety, there were multiple interesting emergencies and exotic cases. One night we had a duck, pelican and a hawk at the hospital. What a birdie night.

Helped out with anaesthesia of a tiny bird who had part of its leg amputated.

Got to see and examine my first hawk, which I thought was pretty damn cool!!!

On Thursday I had a girly day with Katie and Brittany. We started the day by singing our lungs out with wind in our hair while driving down the coast in the convertible (Life doesn´t get much better than that!). Then we went to Claire´s on Cedros and had lemon pancakes. They were heavenly and made sure I looked like I had a bun in the oven at the beach haha.

We played volleyball and also took a dip in the sea, which was much colder than I expected. You got used to it after a few minutes and then the water felt so nice and the waves OMG they were spectacular. SO BIG. No wonder people love to surf here. 

Later that day/evening Brittany had to work, but me and Katie kept on tanning in the pool at the Cartin´s. We had some white wine in the hot tub in the evening sun, which was super nice.  

 These guys had a date night while I had my girls night.

I have a new candy crush, which is blueberries with dark chocolate around them.

Last night, that is Friday I stayed at the hospital until 2 am and it dawned on me that I wouldn´t want to be doing anything else on a Friday evening than helping these animals. I guess I picked the right career <3

This Saturday me and B&M went to the beach to check out a surfing tournament. A famous surfer girl that has only one arm due to a shark bite in the past was supposedly there to compete.

In the evening I cooked chicken with banana, peanuts and bacon, which both B and M seemed to like :D 

After dinner we watched the Wizard of Oz. I had never seen it and we are going to see a play about it tomorrow evening so it was a great idea to see the film before.

This handsome fellow is coming in 3 days. Can´t wait to show him what I have been up to the last weeks and go explore America with him. WOOP woop. 

Tinna

A lovely weekend

The Veterinary Specialty Hospital that we went and saw on Friday was just spectacular. They had MRI, cancer therapy, stem cell transplants, kidney transplants, dialysis and everything you can possible imagine. The sky really was the limit. It was a great experience to get to tour the hospital. Maybe I will go there once before I leave for rounds with the interns.

In the evening on Friday there was a neighbourhood happy hour here in the street, where everyone brought some snacks and wine and just mingled. It was fun to meet some people from the street and everyone was extremely interested in a person from Iceland (The mean age was around 70 haha). One guy brought homemade beer which was made with maple syrup, it was delicious. Melodee made croissants with apple, honey, brie and pecans. 

On Saturday morning I went to an outdoor mall and did a little shopping. The sales are in full swing so everything is super cheap. I allowed myself to buy two things for myself and then I bought this body for my sisters future son :D 

In the evening, B&M took me and their son Griffin (who came home for the weekend) to a REAL Mexican restaurant, which was AMAZING.

I had a fahita

After we came home we watch Edward Scissorhands an old classic with Johny Depp.

On Sunday I took a walk in the morning with Melodee and the dogs after Griffin made us breakfast. He had to work for the new car he was getting. 

Here is Griffin with his parents and his new sweet ride in front of the house.

Later that day me and B&M went to San Diego Safari Park. 

Here is one of the workers introducing some kind of lizard or something, have no idea what it is haha

Timon and his buddy (meerkats) were taking a nap just beside the glass wall

Saw a silverback gorilla, who is way larger than me!

If you wanted you could take a airballoon over the park

Me and Bob, ready for the tram ride to Africa

Here are some rhinos and antelopes in the mountain. The park had one rhino of a particular rhino species , where only seven exist in the whole world! They have multiple breeding programs to try to save species that are about to become extinct but unfortunately there is only one male rhino there so the species will become extinct after that generation :(

The giraffes are always a pleasure to watch. You got to see them up close and personal while eating.

The view was so pretty in the park!

Grr, I am angry and I have rabies. Watch out!

Ended the day at Sammy´s, that had great food. Overall just a wonderful weekend :D

T

Sushi and Sunset Market

Went out for sushi yesterday with Bob, Rachel, Katie and Judy, who are all vets at the hospital. It was a really nice place with some yummi food.

They had something called firecracker rolls which was super delicious. It was crab, jalapenios and creamcheese in some superfried scaling. The dish on my right :D

The double spicy tuna was great as well.

The staff did a little smile face on the dish with the monkey balls, which are mushrooms in some crusting and souse.

Our waiter asked if it was a special occasion and Bob joked that it was his 32nd birthday so the waiter gave us free dessert, a fried banana with green tee ice-cream. They have everything fried here!

I took these lovely pictures of the backyard, which is so beautiful in the evenings with the lights! B&M really have a wonderful home.

This night we had grilled pizza with pesto, archives and mozzarella before me and Melodee went to the sunset market that is every Thursday downtown.

At the market you can buy various things, food, and there is also music playing. 

This is the coolest grill I have ever seen made from an old horse wagon. All the food at the market smelled so nice and they even had many flawors of Mojitos that people could buy in a humongous plastic cup. 

Saw this guy all hip and cool in his leopard outfit. Maybe I should get some boots to my leopard collection?

Tomorrow I am going with Bob and the two new interns at the hospital to a specialty hospital around San Diego where Bob is having a lecture on how to be a superstar in the exam room. Looking forward to it :D

T

Baseball and Bowling

Went to a baseball game on Friday where the Angels were playing. Before we left for the game B&M gave me a baseball cap to wear so I fit right in. 

In front of the stadium I saw these stones with family names. Apparently fans can buy a stone with their family name on it. The guy that took us to the game had a stone there.

It was totally packed at the game, 45,515 people!

I had a hot dog, beer (Stella on draft yum), peanuts, and some kettle corn. I think I will roll home like a gigantic fattyball after this summer. To much good food!!!

Every friday after the games there is a firework show

On saturday I bicycled with Bob 12 km to the beach and we met Melodee up for some fish and chips. In the evening some of the staff went bowling, and I actually did pretty well. Got over a hundred points in both games, woop woop:)

This morning I went to the hospital in my sweet ride,  can´t complain! I feel so overly spoiled. At the clinic I got to do some new interesting things and I´m slowly progressing to be a better upcoming vet.

Tonight there was an event at the hospital were people could bring their dog and all the dogs could play and people could mingle and get some snacks. It was like being at the movies watching these furballs play;)

Until next time/Tinna