Weekend of fun

It was nice to have the weekend together as Shammy has been doing on-calls and covers for at least a day or a night for the last few weekends. We made the most of the sunshine and went for a trip to the outskirts of Philadelphia in an area called Valley Forge on Saturday. Quite a wealthy area with a national park bordering it so it had lovely greenery and a lot of the houses had surrounding grounds of a decent size.
We visited some of Shammy's friend's there and had some yummy indian food for lunch and played with their kids. Our visit extended when other friends decided to join them so we finally left at about 4pm to check out the second largest shopping mall on the east coast called, King of Prussia. It didn't matter as King of Prussia was huge with lots of the latest fashion stores, designers and more but it was definitely just window shopping for us. We headed on to the nearby outlet stores instead to pick up some great deals. We were still going hardcore at 9pm when the stores closed but I could definitely spend another day as I didn't get to any of the women's clothes stores. Sooo much fun, I said to Shameer that Mum could easily get lost there for the day.
On Sunday we kept our friend, Krish company with her 2 children Om (4 months, but 29 weeks premi) and Shiva (2 years old and very active and a very cheeky in a very cute way). Her husband Ash had just started the cardiology fellowship and was on-call all weekend at the hospital, returning late in the evening if at all and totally exhausted. I kept thinking my turn will be next!
We also managed a hike at the local bear creek resort which is for skiing in winter and for hiking and mountain biking during winter. We then caught up with another friend in the evening. He has recently moved apartments and had a few friends over to celebrate. We love his 2 bedroom apartment and are considering moving there next year when he moves out, just have to work on the finances thats all.
Shammy is going well in his third year and I have now accrued 1000 intern hours only 500 to go, so I am starting to pull the study books out again. Nina, a friend who has recently done the board exam required to register as a pharmacist was telling me about the difficulty of some of the questions so this has definitely motivated me.
We have also been keeping up our relay marathon training with lots of runs along the parkway here, its a trail run that follows a stream, it makes running in the evening enjoyable.
There is a also a very popular velodrome which attract lots of overseas cyclists to Allentown. We are planning to go and watch the action next Friday with some free passes we picked up.