Charlotte Regional Farmers Market

Alex and I met our friends, Matt and Presley, at the Charlotte Regional Farmers Market yesterday.  We had never been before and it was awesome!  The produce was extremely fresh and cheap!  We bought fruit for the juicer and veggies for dinner this week.  After the market, we went out for brunch at Tupelo Honey Cafe, my favorite!

    

  The Charlotte Regional Farmers Market! 

   

Graduation Banquet

The hospital held a Graduation Banquet last night at the Marriott in uptown to celebrate the senior residents who are graduating and moving on to fellowship or practice.  Attendings in every field had to cover for residents for several hours so everyone could attend the event.  We had a blast!  It is sad to see our forth years leave, but we are excited for the new class of interns!

  

 A few of us met at Lorene's apartment before the banquet.  The roof of her building has great views of uptown!

  

 Me and the hubs

  

 The husband crew.  They preferred to sit together at dinner.

   

 The family medicine interns who rotate with us!

  

 Aishwarya and Carly

   

 Our crazy, amazing, wonderful family!

  

 We are going to miss Cardella!

  

 OB holding down the dance floor until the last song.

  

 I love these people :)

Camping on Morrow Mountain

Alex and I went camping on Morrow Mountain this weekend.  We have been waiting to use our new camping stuff for so long!  Morrow Mountain is a North Carolina State Park about one hour from Charlotte.  Alex picked it for the awesome hiking trails.  The trip was last minute, but we had a wonderful time eating smores and hot dogs and hiking another North Carolina mountain.

 

Our set up!

  

 We love our sleeping bag for two.

  

 The bug spray and flashlight were my favorite possessions.

   

  

 Alex put together a nice salad and we ate hot dogs off the grill.

  

 Smores

  

  

 Good morning!

  

 After breakfast, we hiked up to the top of the mountain.

    

I cannot hike without my pink shoes.

  

 The first peak in the distance is called Tater Tot Mountain :)

  

  

Posing with Tater Tot

  

 Can't wait to go camping again soon!

River Jam

We went to River Jam at the White Water Center tonight with some of the residents.  Our residency financial advisory group hosted dinner and drinks for residents and family.  The White Water Center has a man made river for white water rafting and kayaking.  They also have ropes courses, zip lines, and running trails.  Our OB program has an intern bonding trip here every year.  The White Water Center holds a concert every Thursday night called River Jam.  We have been meaning to go for so long!  It was such a nice night!

 

 Our group with Smokey the dog!

  

  

 The White Water Center

  

Braving the rapids

  

Hiking Crowders Mountain

I am working nights this weekend and because I am still protected by intern hour restrictions (for one more week!) I don't have to go in until 7pm instead of working 24 hour shifts.  Alex and I used our day off to go hiking on Crowders Mountain.  Who knew there was a mountain forty minutes from Charlotte?!  It is a comparatively small mountain, but our legs are sure hurting today!  What we thought was going to be an hour hike turned into three hours and five and a half miles.

   

 Climbing trees

  

 The flat trails quickly turned into actual rock climbing.

  

 Our first view of the land! 

  

 You can see Charlotte off in the distance.

  

   

  

  

 The picture does not give justice to how close to the edge we are!  I had to hold Alex to assure myself that he would not fall over the ledge!

  

 Mountain climbers!

  

  

  

 Finally made it to the very top!  We ate our lunch up here looking out over southern Carolina.

  

Bon Bons and Vino

Alex, Aishwarya and I went to 7th Street Market earlier this week for wine tasting night.  We ate fancy chocolate and drank tasty wine.  The Assorted Table Wine Shoppe hosts a wine tasting every Tuesday night in the market.  Alex and I have been meaning to go since we moved here.  We snacked on our favorite bon bons from Bar Chocolate, a shop in the market.  They have the most beautiful, most exquisitely crafted chocolate!! Their website is barchocolate.clt.com.  I can't think of a better way to spend a Tuesday night!

 

Aishwarya and I with our chocolate and wine!

  

 Cheers

Courtney's Surprise Party

We had a surprise party for Courtney's 29th birthday Friday night!  We all hid in Courtney and Tim's beautiful new house and waited for the birthday girl to come home from dinner.  The surprise was a success!  It was the first time in a year that all six interns were off on the same night.  We had a blast!

 

Surprise!

  

 Happy birthday Courtney!

   

  

 Not interns for much longer...

  

 Hannah, me, Kate, Courtney, Chancy, Aishwarya, and Presley

 

Our OB family