Mini-Vacation

This weekend the Doctor had a retreat for work. It was a chance for all the new interns to get to know one another and have some time to 'let their hair down.' The hospital got rooms at a local resort for the 10 interns and their families. (read significant others, because only two interns have children. Joe and his wife have a one year old, and we have THREE kids.) There was a dinner at the nice restaurant and we got to stay in a nice hotel room. I was nervous about bringing kids and staying, but it was mostly a great experience.







The room they got for us was huge. (Thankfully. THREE kids, remember?) Sockie got to sleep on the transformer couch/bed. Very exciting. Grapes got a queen bed to herself. Pencil had plenty of room for his pack-n-play near the sitting area. The balcony overlooked the beautiful pool and desert view. PLUS- the bathroom was fantastic. I didn't get any bathroom pics though. The doctor and Grapes swam in the pool before dinner. Sockie was not interested (despite the new spiderman swim trunks) so he and I watched Disney channel while Pencil took a nap.
Dinner was in a private room in the nice hotel restaurant. Pencil whined to be fed the whole time-- two containers of babyfood and a million cereal puffs were apparently not enough. Sockie was playing all over- at the windows, under the table, on the nearby benches. And Grapes was crunching ice and flipping water with her straw... it was a zoo. Thankfully the group was pretty laid back, so I wasn't quite as self conscious about our kids. But mostly they did very well. They loved the triple chocolate mousse. (And I'm not not gonna lie- so did I!)
The power went off in the middle of the night because we had a big rainstorm. (the monsoons are not a myth!) so after putting us all back to sleep, we slept like babies. What a happy mini-vacation!