New Orleans

Here are a few more pictures from my trip to New Orleans recently. It is an interesting area. The French Quarter is nice but then the rest of the city is very poor and dirty an in poor repair.

Driving into the city on I-10

The Superdome and New Orleans Skyline

The cemeteries are all above ground because when they were buried underground, the coffins use to poke up from under the ground when the water level would rise.

The Mississippi River at night.

The French Quarter

Typical building outside of the "nice" part of town

There are still many buildings with boards over the windows from Katrina

Airboat Tour

I just got back from a Trip to New Orleans for the annual ASA meeting were I presented a challenging case that I had recently. I was able to take an airboat ride in the bayou where we were able to see a lot of alligators and wildlife and also take a pretty fun boat ride. Our guide was born and raised in the bayou. I think I picked up a little accent just taking the trip!

Our "full" boat ready for adventure!

Pretending to steal the boat!

A 9 foot croc right beside our boat.

Trees growing right up out of the water.

Cruising down the bayou. They told us to watch out for snakes falling out of the trees. The guide said about once a year one will fall onto a boat

Sunbathing! (8 foot long)

Very nice weather for the end of October.

Feeding an 11 ft gator some "swamp crack" otherwise known as marshmallows

The other group (with a completely full boat) returning the at the same time.

Overall this was a very fun trip. Totally worth it! I think I will go again if I am ever in the area again. I will post more New Orleans picts soon!

Random Picts

Here are a few random picts that I came accross while looking at picts this weekend.

What a Pose!

Dad and Me in front of the Louisville Slugger Museum.

Here is a pict of the Jewish Hospital Heart and Lung center where I am currently working. It is a really nice hospital and the cases are really fun but pretty hard at the same time. I have done anesthesia for Heart transplants, Lung transplants, and pretty much any kind of Heart surgery you can think of. It has been a great experience!!

Ice Storm

Here are a few pictures from our recent Ice storm that knocked out the power for hundreds of thousands of people in the area. Luckily my power only went out for a few 30 minute intervals while they were repairing the lines. There are trees and power lines down everywhere and the schools in the area were closed for 1.5 -2 weeks becasuse they didn't have power either. Of course there were no days off for me and I had the enjoyment of navigating around all of the accidents and spun-out vehicles on the roads and interstates to get to work every morning. My 15 min commute averaged about 45 min. It did make the area very beautiful but this poor state declared a national state of emergency because they could not handle the conditions. Here are a few pictures of the ice and snow.

Thanksgiving Weekend

For the month of November I was working at Jewish Hospital here in Downtown. It was a very busy month but was also very interesting. I was on call at that hospital over Thanksgiving so I had to stay in the area. I went to Rich and Linda Wilson's house for thanksgiving dinner. They are a couple from church that I have gotten to know. The food was excellent and the company was great. Luckly I didn't get called into the hospital that day. This month I am in the ICU which has turned out to be very busy so far. It is kind of fun but also really sad at the same time. I get to go home and see my family in January so that is what I am counting down to at this point. (which is making this month go by very slow). Happy Holidays everyone. I will hopefully post again soon.

A cool formation at Morengo Cave this weekend

Corvette Museum

On the way back from Nashville we stopped off at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, KY. We spent a couple of hours walking through the self guided tour and looking at all of the vette's from over the years. There were some pretty cool cars there.

Besides the cool car, check out the price of Gas!!! Nice Stingray?

The New ZR1

I think that I will take one of each!!

Nashville

A couple of weekends ago my parents were in Nashville for one of my moms conferences. I had the weekend off and drove down there Friday after work(Just over 2.5 hour drive). It was really good to see them. We went to centennial park where they were having a history festival. They had items from the civil war and WWII as well as a few things form the Persian gulf war. It was really interesting to see. They also had people re-enacting different fights and others re-enacting the lifestyles of the times. It was a small scale show but was pretty good. That evening we went around and heard different start up bands trying to make a name for themselves. It wasn't my favorite part of the trip since I dislike country music, but since I was in the area....! Here are a few pictures of some of the stuff at Centennial park.

A Civil War reenactment (small but fun to watch) Cases of daily rations

Bomb/Mine equipment
Original WWII motorcycle

Washington D.C.

I just got back from 5 days in Washington DC about a week ago. My sister and I went on a trip to DC since we had not been there before. We were going non-stop the whole time that we were there and took around 500 picts. We saw all of the monuments (during the day and at night), all of the Smithsonian's that were open (except a couple of art museums), went to the spy museum, saw money being printed, went to the Holocaust museum(amazing!), went to Arlington Cemetery with the Grave of the Unknown Soldier and JFK memorial, saw the White House (and Marine One taking off!!), saw the Pentagon from a distance (just looks like any other building from ground level), Saw the capital building and the Library of Congress and much, much more. We walked about 10-15 miles per day and took the Metro Train to the places that we could not walk to or when we were heading back from where we had walked. It was a lot of fun. We ate at a lot of great restaurants and had fun seeing the are. I am going to put a few pictures here for you to enjoy.

Sis by the Washington Monument

Washington Monument just before we went to the top

Lincoln Memorial, Reflective Pool, WWII Memorial from the top
White House from the top
Capital Building with Ulysses S Grant Memorial in front and Library of Congress behind to the right from the top of WA Monument
Jefferson Monument from the top
Night shot with Reflective Pool, Washington Monument, Capital Building, Mars (or maybe just the moon!) Washington Monument at night from the WWII memorial pool.
Iwo Jima Memorial

Ford's Theater (where Lincoln was assassinated)

Me and F.D.R.

F.D.R Memorial showing the bread lines during the depression

Sis at F.D.R. Memorial in front of a water fall.
Me at F.D.R.

Lincoln Memorial
Me by the BIG guy
Lincoln Memorial at Night

Arlington Cemetery

JFK Tomb with Eternal Flame burning (hard to see the flame because it is so bright out)
Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
U.S.A. Capital Building

Jefferson Memorial
Jefferson
The White House

"Marine One"

WWII Memorial

Korean War Memorial (very detailed and life-like sculptures)Washington Memorial reflecting from the Potomac River

For some reason this car kept following me around the whole time I was in D.C.!!!

The museums did not allow pictures so you can use your imagination to picture what they were like or you can just go there and see them for yourself!