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Day 12: Beach & Shopping

May 11, 2015 – We had breakfast at 7:30 and then dropped Kristie off in Frederiksted  at 8:30 for research.  Melinda & I dropped off our extra medial supplies, health education pamplehts, and fun stuff for patients at Sister Emma Cottage, Genip Gardens, and Ginger Thomas.  Then we went back to walk around Frederiksted and saw some cool sights.  We saw monuments for all the military branches with lists of Crucians who have served.  We walked into the welcome center and the lady told us we could go on the pier.  So we walked all the way down to the end of the pier and took some pictures.  It was really windy, which felt amazing in the 90 degree heat.  Then we went to rainbow beach to soak up the sun.  We picked Kristie up at 12:30 and then went to Christiansted so Kristie could shop.  We shopped for a coupel hours and then grabbed a drink on the board walk.  My mango dacquiri was amazing! And this place at home made tortilla chips that had an Old Bay taste which was totally awesome. Then we drove Kristie to UVI so she could attend the nursing school graduation.  Melinda & I went to Cane Bay to relax and unfortunately a guy kept talking and talking and talking to us and us Baltimoreans don’t mess with creepers so we made an excuse to leave.  Kristie met us back at Arawak to commence the packing ordeal.  We showered & rearranged suitcases and then all went to sleep.

Pancake stack with bacon and COFFEE

Frederiksted monuments for military branches and members from STX

Historic canons

At Rainbow beach

We picked up Kristie from school.  How cute is this outfit?

Then we bought yummy drinks

Cane bay

Rowdy Joe’s for dinner!

These mahi fish tacos with cucumber salad were the bomb.

Gift for Jennifer!

[jomicruz]

I finally made it to voodoo doughnuts... where I had the best doughnut ever.  I got their maple bacon bar and a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and coco puffs doughnut.  I had some on Saturday night and paired the rest with Stumptown coffee on Sunday morning.

In the picture with the people I'm the one in the middle in the photo... the other two folks are my colleagues at JHUSON who are also doing their transitions practicum at OHSU.  It was very nice to get together.

We went to Rogue Brewery where we had the maple bacon beer in honor the famous voodoo doughnut.  The beer was very smokey, and I'm glad I shared it.  It cost me $13 for that experience, it isn't a repeat, unless you like smokey beers.

One of the highlights of the night was learning that Epic: the charting system used at OHSU is very marketable.  The program is actually very cool, it uses things called dotphrases which are shortcuts that start with a "." but fill in words that you would otherwise have to type in yourself.  I learned dotphrases for care plans, evaluation notes and handoffs in my training last week. 

I've had to focus on school work even though the weather is gorgeous now... But I will continue to post about my adventures, or lack there of.