Goodbye St. Maarten, Hello Manhattan

This is for my reader Patti:

Today is the last day in St. Maarten. We have zillions of bags, not to mention the 30lb dog crate that holds our 90lb Rottweiler. Talk about the Griswalds move to the City! I wish I could say that I'm sad right now, but honestly I am just so excited to be in a new place, back with my husband, moving forward through these final 2 years of medical school. Can't believe that this part is over. No more lecture halls. No more sitting on my ass all day. No more waiting in the bank line for 2 hours. No more walks on the beach with my dog. No more shelf milk!

I will miss my friends for sure. The good thing is that most of us will be in New York so our goodbye's are only for a few months. It's strange though. I hate saying goodbye. Even to those people that you don't know well, but spent the last 20 grueling months with. You see them everyday because we all live the same life down here. I decided not to say goodbye to a lot of people..instead I left them by saying, "see you at graduation".

I took the simulated USMLE full 8 hour, 350 question exam yesterday. I passed thank God. I have a lot of work to do still until I take the real thing in May, but at least that is all I have to focus on now with some occasional walks in Central Park and of course the shopping...oh the shopping I can't wait!

Thank you for being patient with my posts..or lack thereof. My free time is scarce and honestly since Ry has been away I didn't want to write for fear of sounding so sad and lonely, which I was. But now we are back together, my little family. We thank everyone that visited and everyone that prayed for us while we have been down here on this little speck in the ocean. We thank God for blessing our life in so many different ways including finding a seller for our jeep in the most perfect timing (today!). We love you all and will talk to you when we arrive in NY.

Now we close this chapter, and open the next. Goodbye St. Maarten.