Testing out twelve-leads

On Monday nights, the park has meetings where we learn about what was going on in the park during the week and then we work on a particular skill and earn continuing ed credits. Joe looked around at who had shown up for class (me, Carrie, other Carrie, and Cheryl), sighed, and started taking off his shirt. We all looked at each other in puzzlement.This particular week, we were going to be learning about twelve leads. We just got some new machines in the park and Joe wanted to test them out. He was the only male in the room (Lloyd came later) and therefore the one most qualified to take off his shirt. Learned alot about reading electrocardiograms (I think) and had a lot of fun finding ribs on Joe and getting to stick nodes on him. Hee.

Sixth Annual Chocolate Party

On September 11th, we had our sixth annual Chocolate party. Not as many people as usual but it was later in the season and on a Sunday. Still, 25-ish people isn't a bad turnout. There were some awesome dishes (Christie's Mexican dish was AWESOME) and some not so great dishes (my chocolate hummus didn't turn out like I had hoped.) It was a gorgeous day with friends and wonderful food.

September 11th at Lake

Heidi and I tried to get in a late season hike at Lake (Elephant back is one of my favorites) but it ended up being completely crappy weather. So we went and had cocktails at the hotel. I had totally forgotten that it was september 11th so when they started gathering folks around the flag pole, we were all (Pat joined us for a drink) dumbfounded. But it was actually a very nice, very short ceremony. They brought up all of the veterans and everyone had a round of applause.