Travel fest!

This year my summer was taken up mostly by clinic, and by studying for the National Boards. I took Boards July 27th, and I'm pleased to announce that I passed! I am glad to have that over with. Too bad Part II boards will be coming up much faster that I would like to think about, but oh well.

Luckily I did get to fully appreciate and enjoy my rather short summer break. I'm not complaining, because I thought it was a wonderful break! However, I do have to do some tallying, because I'm pretty sure I spent at least 4 days of solid traveling over the break (an awesome feat considering my break was only about 2 1/2 weeks long). Also, I had the most crazy experiences while traveling, not to mention all the interesting people you meet while on planes!

Omaha to Vegas via Denver - 6 hours plus 2 1/2 hours driving home. Two days layer I drove 3 1/2 hours to Salt Lake to go to my friend's wedding. After the wedding I headed to the Salt Lake airport at 5 am to fly to Phoenix for a 3 hour layover and finally on to Honolulu (YAY!) with a grand total of 12 hours inside the airport. I gained four hours, so I think I was awake almost a solid 24 hours without even trying! (I was pretty delirious at that point...)

I headed back to Salt Lake at 10 at night (Hawaii time). However, there was some difficulty boarding because apparently some old lady had something fall out of the overhead bin and hit her in the head! Yeah, so they brought an EMT guy down and checked her out. She was totally fine, but they were worried about liability, and the fact that we would be flying over open ocean if she needed medical attention in the near future! I don't really know if she decided to fly or not, but we did eventually get off the ground. I pretended to sleep for 6 hours and get this - when we landed some stupid lady opened the overhead bin (she wasn't even sitting close to me) and some hard plastic thing from a stroller fell out and hit me in the face! Pretty sure it messed up my glasses, but at least they didn't have to call the EMT for me! Well there was another 3 hour layover before finally flying to Salt Lake. I drank 2 Rockstars to make the drive back to Cedar because I lost those four hours... so sad! Grand total time in airport - 12 hours.

When I finally headed back to Omaha, I took a random shuttle to Vegas. I always get to the airport like 2 hours early, and my flight was delayed, so I spent 3 hours sitting in the airport. Finally made it on the plane, had to run to my connecting flight in Denver, and finally made it home around 10 o'clock. Then my friend came over and kept me up till 2:30 am. I didn't really mind, except I kept falling asleep in church the next day. Ha ha!

There you have it - Ashley's adventures around the country! It was amazing. I will post pictures in upcoming posts!