Congrats to my BFF

My best friend since middle school will be graduating from UCSF Pharmacy come May.  Now that she's done with her externship, I'm pretty excited that she'll be moving back to the city.  Hopefully, she'll be less MIA and make more time for some girls bonding.

For the past couple of months, she's been anxiously waiting to see which Pharamcy residency program she'd be matched up with.  On Wednesday morning, she notified us that she got matched up to one of her top choices: Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Stanford! So excited for her to embark on this new journey.  Wishing her nothing but the best! <3

To celebrate this exciting news, her boyfriend decided to plan a surprise dinner for Friday.  With such short notice, a handful of us were able to make it to dinner.  We spent the evening downing warm sake with delicious sushi from Sushi Bistro! **UPDATED: Check out our food adventure here.

It was the perfect way to celebrate!  She explained to us how the matching up worked and though there are 3500 applicants nation wide, the programs can only take 2100.  She was hoping not to fall amongst those 1300, who are not matched and selected.  Of course I had absolute confidence that she'd get one of her top choices!  There were only 4 slots available for the program she applied for.  To me that obviously means something; that she stood out amongst the hundreds of applicants for that specific program.  She's smart and hardworking and most definitely deserved it.

To celebrate, I got her a Red Velvet cake from Sweet things.  I had it for lunch in celebration to AJ's birthday and it was so good that I knew it would be the perfect dessert for the occasion.  We all loved it! Moist cake and lovely home made frosting.

Scrumplicious!