Summer is over!!

Well my summer of driving boats in Chicago ended pretty uneventfully, but it was great to get back to Seadog for a couple of months. I flew home from Chicago to NC on a Friday and the very next day Rachel and I packed up the car to drive to Michigan to go see her parents for a week. Once we arrived in Michigan we spent the day hanging out with Rachel's parents. We all left the next day to head to Rock Island, Wisconsin. Rachel and her family have been camping on Rock Island since Rachel was a little girl so I felt lucky to have the chance to participate in such a long-standing tradition. It takes two ferry boats to get to Rock Island, one car ferry to Washington Island and then a person ferry to Rock Island. We camped there for about a week and left right before some big storms hit. Rachel and I drove all the way back to NC to get ready to move to Blacksburg, VA. We got one big break with our move, Rachel's new job had relocation benefits. So for the first time we didn't have do anything but sit back and relax as a moving company came and picked up all of our stuff. We met them a couple days later at our new home in Blacksburg. We have been in our new home for about 3 weeks now and I can finally say that everything is unpacked and cleaned up haha. Sheila has a big fenced in backyard, we have a finished basement for my "man cave" and Sheila's bed, we have a baby room for the little Riddell that's on his/her way and Rachel has the whole garage for her craft projects and gardening. I haven't forgotten about Cloye, she claims a little bit of everything so it's all hers. :) We are already loving Blacksburg and I have a feeling we haven't even scratched the surface on all the great things there are to do. We live right next to this great trail called Huckleberry trail where Rachel and I have been walking with the dogs already a handful of times. I also found out that this trail leads right to campus, so I may be able to ride my bike to class occasionally. Maybe, we'll see. I did buy a new car, well it's new to me. It's a black Jeep Cherokee and I LOVE it!! It's a good thing I bought an SUV because apparently we live in an area where we have to take our own trash to the dump. So vet school orientation starts tomorrow!! Which means that classes start in a week!! Wow I can't believe it's already here. I am a little nervous and definitely excited. This week will be filled with learning what's expected of us as graduate students in a professional program, a day of team building exercises with all of my classmates and we'll probably be given some tips on how to succeed in vet school. I will be taking between 18 and 20 credit hours this semester. The following is a list of all the required courses for the first semester.

Veterinary Anatomy I

Veterinary Physiology I

Medical Biochemistry

Veterinary Histology

Veterinary Immunology

Vet Large Animal Husbandry

Veterinary Ethology

Professional Foundations in Vet Med

And the following are both electives worth one credit each.

Animal Domestication/Genetic Resources

Descriptive Embryology

I enrolled in all of the above classes, and I have at least a week to drop either of the electives should I choose not to take them. That's all from me for now. Wish me luck!!!