Grad school is officially 75% complete

One semester left!  I cannot wait to be finished.  I know Clark can't wait, either.  I am a beast when I'm stressed out and I sure feel bad for my husband sometimes.  He is a super trooper to put up with me.  I once toyed with the idea of pursuing a PhD, but I just don't think I'm mentally cut out for it.  Nope, I think I'll be satisfied with a master's degree.

Anywho, the semester officially ended Friday, but I got started with celebratory festivities early! Reason being is that I completed all of my clinical hours ON TIME and our last class was Wednesday!  My good friend Andrea is getting married in Newport Beach in one week,  so we went out for her last hurrah!

Started the night with some gelato....

Sauntered over to the Piano Bar where we were informed that the dueling pianos will not be resumed until the start of fall semester...so we got some appetizers and plotted our next stop...then subsequently drove around trying to find live music on a Wednesday night...

And we ended up at the Yakitori Boy karaoke bar in Chinatown!  It was definitely the place to be on a Wednesday night.  That place was happening and we had so much fun belting out a variety of tunes. It was on this night that I learned that Mormon bachelorette parties can be fun!

Andrea and Annie dancing with the women from  South Korea.  The woman in the center liked to hike her dress up to the point where her underwear was exposed.  She was a bit inebriated....

The next day started off early with an amateur bridal photo shoot for the bride to be.  She looked so pretty in her dress and I know she'll be a radiant bride the day of her ceremony!  Hopefully she won't forget to wear earrings ;)

We parked illegally on the South Street Bridge to get some shots with the Philly skyline.  I think people were understanding since she definitely was in full wedding garb!

Work it on the South Street Bridge, girl!

Then in the afternoon Clark and I joined her and her fiance for some swimming at their apartment complex's swimming pool.  I cannot tell you how excited I was to actually get to swim in a real pool.  It was heavenly. I think my calling in life is to lay by a pool every summer day for the rest of my life.  Dang it, why could I not be a trust fund baby?

Andrea and her fiance, Rex.

We can't take a normal picture if our lives depended on it.

Here sits my wonderful thermos.  It travels with me everywhere.  Clark likes to make fun of it.

But he also likes to use it, so I think he's just jealous he doesn't have a butterfly themed thermos. And I can't even remedy his subconscious desire to own one because it is completely out of stock.  I got it while the gettin' was good.

Ohhh, don't mind me.  I'm just enjoying some refreshingly cool water from my awfully cute thermos!

We even got to enjoy cookies in the pool.  It was a glorious afternoon.