California Trip
May
03
Last week JJ was in California for 5 days at a Science conference. He needed a watch to get to all his meetings on time but the only affordable watches he could find we’re childrens watches so he bought a Nemo watch and kept in his pocket.
When he came back home he gave the watch to Sariah. She can’t tell time yet but she interested in learning and always asks what time it is. He bought a little monkey for Rebekah because last Sunday I was telling him over the phone that I watched The Testaments Of One Fold and One Shepard with Sariah and Rebekah and now Bekah wants a pet monkey.
I think him giving them presents when he came back was a great thing to do because they really missed Daddy and now those presents mean a lot to them. Sariah wants to wear her watch often and is careful not to get it dirty or wet and Rebekah is totally in love with her monkey which she either calls “baby monkey” or “brown monkey”. If she doesn’t remember where she put the monkey she gets up set.
It would have been fun for all of us to go to California though and his professor would have paid for our gas, hotel and food but being this far a long in my pregnancy. I am just way too uncomfortable to go a trip right now. Next year the conference is in Washington DC. I am hoping the professor is willing to pay for the grad students families to go out there because my sister in law lives in that area and it would be fun to visit her family.
The conference included people from all areas of Health Science including scientists in grad school and those with jobs in healthcare, academics and the research industry. JJ said that this years conference was very beneficial for what he is researching right now. As he gets closer to graduation these conferences will be a good way for him to build up a network of contacts that can help him find a good job.
May 3rd, 2010 at 10:35 am
cute monkey!
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