A trip to Davis

AT LAST!!! (I’m outta my cast, m’friends!!!) I am unfortunately still far from fully healed. Buddy tape and splint for at least the next 4 weeks, and my ortho doc says I still have probably around 3-6 months. MONTHS. Til full recovery. My heart hurts, but I’m trying to be positive.

At least I can take showers without stuffing my hand in a bag, and I can move my wrist again, so I will count my blessings!

I’m severely behind on posts because I haven’t really felt like typing with one hand after getting back from my rotation, so this impromptu-ish trip up to Davis with some of my favorite people was from…a month ago!

We’d all had a pretty rough week, so we were all super super looking forward to having a little music mini-reunion (the last one was back in 2012, with a mini one in 2013). We planned a billion things to do in a day and…well, I think we did a pretty awesome job!

We met up at the farmer’s market to hang out with Amelia (one of our music instructors) and her husband (aka my former head boss), and stopped off at Whole Foods for coffee and a quick snack to catch up on life.

A photo posted by Farrah @ fairyburger (@fairyburger) on Mar 12, 2016 at 10:31am PST

My favorite apple juice on the planet is the juice from the Davis Farmer’s Market (official site here)! It is the one and only thing my best friend and I (here are some of our food adventures!) did not share/actually labeled in the fridge in the 4 years that we lived together. :O

Then we ran off through the arboretum to get to the Mondavi Center to crash the Alumni Lunch!

Jaclyn stuck around behind to snap some pictures of the arboretum (and of me and Rachel in the process, hehehe).

Gotta cut through King Hall (their law school) to get there! :P

Dave was singing with the UCD Alumni Chorus for Beethoven’s 9th, which is another reason why we decided to head up! (Our original plan had been to go hiking in Yosemite, but…it was snowing and we didn’t want to die.)  I’m adding singing with the alumni chorus to my next 101 in 1001 (until then, you can see my current one! :O )

We found Dave! :D!

Had to sneak into the Mondavi Center! I wasn’t ever in orchestra, so I’ve only played in here once (twice?) for a concerto competition audition.

I think we ended up walking around 6+ miles  (Davis has a ginormous campus)–we made stops at every bookstore on campus and downtown to find lucky test pencils for Rachel and Jaclyn’s cousins (success at the last store, thankfully!! :D ), and we also got some stuffs for ourselves (e.g. I finallyyyy have a UCD license plate!).

I’m glad she’s being taken care of!

Of course, we had to stop by the music building too! Yay for Music 115! (Otherwise known as our classroom and recital hall.)

The new recital hall is still being built because UC stands for “Under Construction”–we hope to play here someday! Noontime alumni weekend concerts?!

Where else did we stop? …well…

• Uncle Vito’s for a slice of pizza and also to escape the pouring rain (which partially melted my cast in a little, thus slightly diminishing the space for my poor fingers)
• Nugget Market in hopes of getting a pumpkin milkshake since we heard they weren’t actually seasonal…but they are
• Davis Sushi Buffet for a sushi buffet dinner
• Woodstock’s for Apple Cinnabread

For old time’s sake, we were going to stop at Burgers & Brew for garlic fries and pear cider, but decided that mayhaps we’d already had enough for the day. ;P Dave let us crash at his place for the night (yay!), and we had brunch at Crepeville before Rachel and Jaclyn reverse-kidnapped me and dropped me off back in Fresno for the rest of my rotation (I’ll get to that post eventually)!

A photo posted by Farrah @ fairyburger (@fairyburger) on Mar 13, 2016 at 1:17pm PDT

It was so awesome to get to hang out again. This is the most I’ve seen of my friends in the last half-decade, so you better bet I’ve been super-cherishing all these times. :]!

• Where did you go to college? Do you ever go back to visit?