Catching up with the events

Yes, I know, it has been at least a couple of months since my last serious post.... big gap in between. Well, many things have been going on, and here is a short resume. Interesting or not, bear with me:)

After the Miami short and fantastic trip, work rushed in. Within a few weeks I was travelling again to Cayman Brac, for a short few working days; more work then back home to the main island, all in between packing. Packing in the same time for 2 events is never easy, especially combined with numerous on call evenings. But hey, I'm looking back and smiling.

First of all, I was changing houses. The 20 minute drive without traffic originating from Omega Drive, Prospect and the wonderful view of the green canal overlooking the sea, alas, was no longer the green peace full haven and the change was unavoidable. In fact it has been coming for months and I wish I would have made the transition sooner but it's not easy so find a replacement for such a pretty place...and to further complicate things more, owing a rather large canine never makes renting easy.

Finally it was done, and the contract signed, and the deposit payed. The new place is called... ok, it's an interesting name, but what to do, what to do?!, it's called "Mystic Retreat"...that being the name of the smaller complex. all shared with Garden Retreat, Sunset Retreat, what ever!, too many details. My new room mate is Warner, a very nice and tidy south african of my age, also a resident of the island.

That went well, and now my drive to work is 3 minutes with traffic, so that's cool.

The only little hump to overcome is soon to come. The dreaded electric bill:))) But will see when we get there.

The second major event, the romanian holiday. 2 weeks and a half. 6 planes, lost luggage, heavy luggage, many presents back and forth. Seeing family,so many dear friends, solving a million problems, and yes, the highlight, the 3 day trip across Craiova, Hunedoara and Vilcea, with Ricky, Alina and Irina (talk about vets reunited:))) lots of fun and road tripping the good old fashion way. Far too short sadly:( The days flew by, and with one short overnight stop in Surrey, England, to visit Alina in her working current position, here I was back at work.

(this one is done close to Hunedoara, in a very nice pension. Irina was taking the picture, but hey, 4 out of 7 reunited. Needless to say we spoke a lot about the missing ones from the gang, Ovidiu, Ioana and the infamous Mihnea).

and then...
I had to make one more overnight impromptu stay in Miami due to flights delay, whatever!!!,

and back to work.. And it wasn't easy. Just at the time of my come back, somebody had the brilliant idea to implement just then the new computer system for keeping medical records. So, it was all to new for my post holiday blues, but no time for that.
Shortly after, Klaus's visited followed, only 6 days but tried to make it as fun as possible for him and show him around. And a good time we had, topped up with nearly missing the boat to Sting Ray city but finally making it and having a jolly good time:)

And here we are, 2 more weeks later. Just coming to the end of the short Easter holiday. Normal people had 4 days off, but we vets only had 3. And how they have flown...
tomorrow we're back to work, and Saturday is ahead.
But i am well rested and all is really great.

And I promise to post more interesting stuff (other then my personal life) namely more onto veterinary medicine.
Good evening from the Caribbean,
Andreea

Pictures at last...and more to come

It took some time, and lots of trials and tribulations with an otherwise very friendly tool, Picasa and finally here is the link: http://picasaweb.google.com/turcoaz . I plan to make this my virtual space for posting my pics for the future, in a very careful selection that is.

Take two

More to come of our epic Caribbean journey soon.

From the other end of Europe, which happens to be an island :)

It wasn't my graduation ceremony, but to me it was as important as mine... This moment seemed so far away 4 years ago when I met Irina while cleaning the stables of our rescued gipsy horses from the Uni. This moment seemed even further away 5 years ago, when I asked Ovidiu to help me clean up the poo of new-born mutts in a dog shelter. And here they are... They are no longer 'the kids'... They are finallyyyy, laaadiiies and gentlemeeeen, VETS!!!!


And straight after graduation Irina found the time to come and see me in old Britain before she starts the hard vetting life. Here we are :)



Nine days have flown by and now we have a few more things to remember when we'll be pensioneers :p Like...some long walks on the canal in the green county of Surrey, consulting on Saturday morning in a small brit veterinary surgery and clubbing in London on Saturday night near Picadilly Circus. And of course, the one morning that we spent together at the surgery where I regularly work, that was meant to be just the beginning of a whole week of work experience for Irina. This was brutally interrupted by a manager much too worried about 'insurance issues' and very determined to keep Irina away from any British animal or owner. After one afternoon of typical Romanian anger I reminded myself Dr Jeff Young's favourite saying, 'All British people are pussies!' and I reached the conclusion it was their loss anyway. Therefore, I went on by myself with our endless consults for bunnies and other little creatures and I encouraged Irina to explore London by herself. Which she did and which she'll tell you about very soon...