Last week was my one week early summer vacation. For the first part of the week I went down to southern oregon where I relaxed at home and spent two days rafting on the Rogue river. Me and seven of my dental school friends went on a two day float on the section above the wild and scenic section. It was a short, easy section to raft and we took our time doing it in two days. We stopped the first night and camped about half way. I spent a few minutes fishing that evening but was unsuccessful and that section is not very good for trout fishing. On the second day we stopped for a while to jump off the rocks and swim around in the water. That night we stayed in Grants Pass at our buddies house. On thursday of that week my mom and I drove to Kent and Celia's house located outside of Dale oregon on the North Fork of the John Day River. I wetted a line on friday morning but again was fishing a river that is not very fishy to begin with and got skunked. On friday, we stopped in Pendleton to have lunch with a friend of my mothers before heading up the hill to a church camp in the Blue Mountains where we had a Butler family reunion. The family reunion was fun and it was nice to see everyone. On Saturday afternoon, Several of us went down to La Grande where we fished Grande Rhonde River. Again not a very fishy place to fish but my cousin Dale managed to pull three fish out of the only hole in the entire stretch. they were probably steelhead smolts. Sunday I hitched a ride back to portland with my cousins Jennifer and Lori who were heading that way for a vacation and a trip to the coast.
Summer term has now started and I am already starting to feel busy. There is a lot of new things to learn and do as we are transitioning into the clinic and treating patients. Ther is a lot to learn as well as getting everything scheduled and organized.
