Miami baby

You've been wonderful, Miami. 
5 months with you was great but now... onto the next adventure!

Matheson Hammock

View of downtown

Girls night bar hopping on Miracle Mile and South Beach

I will not miss this traffic.

The church down the road had the best signs

I've watched way too much Big Bang to not try The Cheesecake Factory

Calvary Kendall women's empowerment/church service

My host family!

Redfish Grill

Dave and Fiona's birthday dinner


From the hospital...


Palm tree lined streets

Chicken & Waffles and The American Burger

Last night out with the Miami crew
So happy Chelsea and Che were able to join us from Hollywood!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

U.S. Residency Application Advice

I've received some really great advice from colleagues, residents, faculty, and online sources over the last year about the U.S. residency application process and the couples match. I attempt to compile the most helpful tips here and add my own insight (as a Canadian IMG from Saba entering my first choice family medicine residency) as a means to "pay it forward."  Choose electives wisely:  You can really focus on networking and finding a residency during fourth year. My strategy was to  do rotations at hospitals that had a family medicine residency program  even if my rotation wasn’t in that specialty. While I was there, I would ask for a meeting with the program director or try to get in on some of the family medicine lectures. I ended up interviewing at 3 places I rotated at plus I received interviews in all 6 states that I did rotations in. For example, I did 6 months of rotations in Louisiana and then received 4 interviews in that state. I was told by a program
Read more

Island Hopping

Image
We went beach-bagging (instead of back-packing) through the Euro-Caribbean this weekend. Saba (Netherlands) —> St Maarten (Netherlands) —> St Martin (France) —> Anguilla (UK) We flew into St Maarten on Friday morning and headed into Phillipsburg for the day.  It is a charming little town with shops that line the narrow streets and restaurants/bars that are a few steps from the beach. We went to Hard Rock Cafe to grab a burger and drink. I got a hurricane (with the Jimmy Buffet song in mind) and I picked up a pair of sunglasses. We couldn't get away from Saba (see background)... The beach in Phillipburg is busy and bustling this time of year from the cruise ships that come in. Every time you turn your head there is someone asking if you want to rent beach chairs or segways or jet skis. There were ladies trying to sell dresses and jewellery and massages.  We tried to convince Sara to get her hair braided but she wasn't going
Read more

Vacay north of the border

Image
Vacation time in Canada with some amazing family and friends What more could we ask for? Martha & Tanner's wedding @ Crystal Cliffs beach Craig's MC skills Grand Bend with Steph and Allie The cutest beach town with my besties So many of my favourite people in one place!   Exploring Toronto Shawn and Kristen meet us in the big city! Jays game on Canada Day Silly sissy & sissy-in-law Michelle and Connor arrive! Hooray! 5 of us together... only missing Craig! Game went to 19 innings... We stayed until about the 14th inning stretch Random festival on the Toronto waterfront Beer tasting Shawn and I liked about 33% of them Peterborough with the Marshalls Montreal with Stephy Singing Kelly Clarkson karaoke on a bowling lane Love having friends that you can go so long without seeing and then pick up right where you left off Baden, Ontario with Allie
Read more