Folly Beach, SC

This past weekend, James and I went out to Folly Beach, just outside of Charleston, SC. I know, I know, what the hell am I doing out playing, I have studying to do (arrrrrrrrgh) but I was good, I studied in the car, and a bit on Sat afternoon.

But when I was not torturing myself by scraping my nose in textbooks, we had some fun. We took Ms Moose to a dog park, where she had some fun but definitely showed her age (i have some precious video of Moose swimming as a 2 yr old, let's just say she's not quite that fast anymore). We waited out a cool thunderstorm, then went surfing. Folly Beach is a prime southeastern surf spot, according to several surfer-dude friends of mine.

James did awesome! He caught a bunch of waves and rode 'em in to the shore. Me, not so much. I was craving the feeling i had in Waikiki in 2004, "oh my wow this is friggin awesome!!!!!", but i never got fully upright. I knelt a few times, crouched a few times, and *almost* stood up, but the waves were kinda short in duration (according to a few friends at school, that pretty much sums up E Coast surfing). Fun anyways. Not so bad, floating around in an ocean that was about 80+ degrees. (Very different from New England!!)

We also went out kayaking. While Moose has been out on several boats, OOOOOO boy!!!, she has never been in a kayak. Those of you who knew Moose at a young age are probably laughing right now, very loudly - Um, NO. AS IF!! But now, at her much more um sedentary age, she was quite content to hang in (yes, IN) the kayak - we got her in the kayak, without rolling in the slimy stinky low-tide mud would you believe, and got her turned around so she could lay down with her head on the gunnel. She was lovin' it.

The estuary hosted not only shrimpies, which hopped into the boat (really. One hijacked its way back to Atlanta) but also dolphins (look for the fin in the pic!!) I was quite nervous that Moose would want to jump in to go play, but thank dog I mean god, she didn't. I have no idea how we would have gotten her back into the kayak.

We had some fun. And now, I am ACK back at it. I will not count days until I am done with boards part I, but oh. It will be good.

On a positive note, I am making forward progress as a student intern in clinic... I have four patients, and I am on track to complete my requirements for this quarter five weeks early. Which, cough gasp, leaves me plenty of time to STUDY.

Did I mention that this sucks? Man, I thought studying for my qualifying exam at MCW was bad. Try doing that while taking 25 credits. UGH.