Category: Trips

Photo Roll Out

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Pictures of our nephew’s 3rd birthday party have been posted to my flickr account. It was a few days before the wedding, but with everything going on, we didn’t have a chance to post about it.

I am going to try and post pictures from the rehearsal dinner, wedding ceremony and departure breakfast tomorrow, Wednesday at the latest. Honeymoon photos will go up the day after that. There should be a few videos going up this week, but they will require some editing and I have few things that need get done for the lab before getting to that.

As always, a link to my flickr account can be found in the right hand sidebar.

Reentry

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We’re back! Turks & Caicos may be the most beautiful place I’ve ever seen and to spend a week there with my new wife was simply amazing. 50 years from now I will still be reflecting upon the memories we created these past two weeks.

I was supposed to make a post on Friday detailing our day, but relaxing and doing nothing got in the way. We spent all day at the beach Friday. We floated around on a few water toys, did a little snorkeling and reclined under our own canopy. The highlight, for me anyway, was sailing a hobiecat “wave,” a 13 foot catarmaran. (Apparently it doesn’t matter if you don’t already know how to sail, only that you can sign a wavier form.) We tried for the third evening to catch a sun set and the “green flash” Kyllan told you about, only to miss it due to cloud cover again. There was also a wedding that evening. It took place at the spa (you’ll understand after you see the pictures) and later they took photos on the beach. Even with the cloud cover, the sky was beautiful. Unfortunately for the couple, their photographer did not take a single photo into the setting sun. I snapped off a couple from my lounge chair on the boardwalk though. Friday night we ate at Grace’s Cottage, which is apparently one of the nicest restaurants on the island. Afterwards we walked about a quarter of a mile along the beach back to our resort and took a quick dip in the hot tub.

We left the resort at noon Saturday. We didn’t do very much before leaving, besides try to take in just how breathtaking the entire week had been. It’s Sunday morning now and we are trying to catch up on what happened in the real world while we were gone. There are over 650 photos on my camera, after deleting the unwanteds and duplicates. My Uncle Sam also gave me over 200 photos he took of the rehearsal dinner, wedding and breakfast, each. Oh, and we never posted about my nephew’s 3rd birthday and party on the 3rd. I have 200 photos of that. We simply can’t post all of those photos, but don’t worry, in the next 24 to 48 hours we will decided which ones are going up on flickr and make a post. (That gives me enough time to air brush on some abs!)

5 years

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So, apparently there were a lot of people that did not know why we chose September for our wedding. We went on our first date September 13, 2002, five years ago today…

(Speaking of wedding, ours was an incredible experience that has continued right into the honeymoon. Kyllan and I will be doing a wedding reflections post shortly after we return from our honeymoon, so I will save the rest of my comments for then.)

To celebrate five years together, the two of us will be spending the entire morning and afternoon by the pool. This evening we will be eating at The 23rd Parallel, a very nice restaurant at our hotel. After an afternoon of exploring the island by scooter, I am very excited about another day of doing nothing. Kyllan and I managed to only almost kill ourselves 3 times. Once when Kyllan, who was sitting behind me, grabbed the handle bars while I was accelerating from a full stop and twice in a round-a-bout. (They drive on the left hand side of the road in TCI.)

We are having a great time and I can’t wait to share all of the pictures; Only 301 from the honeymoon so far.

Kyllan’s visit

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Kyllan and I had a great time during her visit this past weekend. For the most part we just kind of hung out, but we did manage to get out a do a few things. The reviews were true, Rush Hour 3 was bad movie. But, it was also an entertaining movie. I wouldn’t recommend it, but I wouldn’t say don’t go see it. We were right next door for breakfast, so we decided to go to the Wings Over the Rockies Museum. The aviation museum is located on a former Air Force Base, Lowry, which is now a residential area. The original two hangers, which housed B-52s, were left standing after the base closed. The museum is inside one of the hangers. As always, pictures from the weekend can be found on my flickr.

The lost 7/7/07 Post

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I really meant to make a post on 7/7/07. I was going to tell everyone how it had been such a lucky week for the Cody family. For those who missed it, the 2nd was my mother’s last chemo treatment. On the 6th I found out that I passed my qualifying exam at Colorado. For those that don’t know, I transfered from Tulane to Colorado (it’s just easier now that the lab is here). Passing their exam was a condition of the transfer and I was a little nervous about it, considering that I hadn’t taken a course from any of the professors giving it. I had been waiting for about 20 days to hear back from the university. (If you don’t know what the qualifying exam is, you can think of it like boards for a physician or the bar for lawyers).

Kyllan and I saw “knocked up,” “Oceans’ 13” and “Transformers” in the theaters and watched “Music and Lyrics” and “Stomp the Yard” on DVD while was in town. “Knocked up” was hilarious. It’s been a long time since I laughed that hard in a theater. I thought “Oceans’ 13” was just barely just okay, but Kyllan liked it. “Transformers” was a little campy, but I still found it very entertaining. “Music & Lyrics” was formulaic, but not necessarily predictable. For a chic flick, it was pretty good. “Stomp the Yard” was horrible. On a scale of 1 to 5, I give it a 0.5 (p<.001). I would tell you why it is so bad, but it is not worth my time to even type it out. It's back to work this week. I've been having some success in the lab recently. With the new found motivation that has come with knowing the exam is behind me, hopefully I will experience some more. Below is the mandatory photo from our trip. It is a picture of the board game "Scene It," which I beat Kyllan at three times in a row. More photos of the trip are on my flickr, including a couple of my nephew Drew, who told his Aunt KyKy that the two of them had brown thumbs and I had yellow… He later asked me if I was white..

I can't be beaten

Happy Fourth

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I made it safely to Dallas. Last night Kyllan and I watched the “Kaboom Town” fireworks. There was all this hype about it being a Nationally recognized show that could be seen all over town… I was not impressed. Kyllan says that the fireworks in Cleveland are much better. The fireworks in Jacksonville are much better, for that matter. Originally, we set out to watch the fireworks from the top of a nearby parking garage. That didn’t last long. We were there for less than 30 seconds before someone went to talk to the security guard and we were asked to leave. I asked him what the deal was, at which point he became very apologetic and looked really embarrassed. Apparently a group of people (less than 20 people on the top level, which probably had about 100 parking spaces) “rented out the space” and they didn’t want us there. What in the world? Were we really taking up too much room? They could have just asked us for $5 or something. We ended up watching from the street. Oh well. Like I said, the show wasn’t that impressive.

ASM Wrap-up

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So, I am back from ASM. If you don’t know, ASM stands for the “American Society for Microbiology.” What I am referring to is the ASM general meeting. Last year I had a great time. This year, it was just okay. Seminars, symposiums, keynote speakers, posters… all the same things went on, but they just weren’t as enlightening as last year. I also think think the organization wasn’t so great this year. The Pseudomonas talks were scheduled at the same time as the majority of the Pseudomonas posters. Those were the two things I was looking forward to the most, but I didn’t have enough time for them both. Also, me and the PI got stuck with a Friday morning poster presentation date. Friday is the last day of the conference and is always poorly attended. Last year, we held court and had a lot of interesting discussions about our posters. This year, we spoke briefly to the people that trickled by. Overall it was still worth going. It’s always interesting to see what other people are working on. As a student, it is always interesting to see what things are completely over my head. Next year it is in Boston. (Sorry, no pictures.)

ASM 2007

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I am currently in Toronto for the American Society for Microbiology General Meeting. If you noticed the lack of posting or my comments the past few days, it because I was gathering data up until the last minute for my presentation. Everything came out pretty well and I am excited about the meeting. I doubt that any of you would actually get all that excited about anything going on here, so I will wait until I return to give a recap. I’ll be pretty busy with events at the conference, so I am afraid there won’t be to many pictures.

Catch Up

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My parents, and my birthday, have come and gone. I think my parents had a really good time. They have officially seen more of Denver than I have. While I was in the lab, they were out exploring the city. Hopefully they will be uploading pictures soon. (Unfortunately, I took very few over the week.) For the most part, we just hung out. I haven’t been in Denver long enough to know all of the good restaurants. As Kyllan said, on my birthday we ate at Ruth’s Chris, my favorite restaurant. We found a pretty good breakfast place, but it was not as good as Blue Bird in New Orleans or All Good in Dallas.

…A few weeks ago I asked Kyllan what was her favorite photo in my apartment that was not of her. You can find her answer below. My mother says that my dad had just arrived home from being on call at the hospital and were excited to see him. Apparently we were not concerned with the fact that he was on the phone.
Favorite

Kyllan’s Visit

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As Kyllan mentioned in her earlier post, she spent this past weekend in Denver. We had a great time. Along with registering, which she wrote about in her post, we managed to find a little time to explore the city. Even though I have been here for six months, this was my first time getting out and really seeing the sites. I’ve uploaded some pictures of her trip to my flickr account. Check them out when you get the chance. The picture below is of the two of us standing on the steps of the state capitol building. The step we are standing on is exactly one mile above sea level.

Update: Kyllan posted more pictures of the trip to her Flickr account

Mile High

Capitol Building