7 down, 2 to go!!

Brent took CAS Exam 7 on Monday! Most of you already know about his exams, but in case you're a recent reader, you can learn more about them from the last time I posted after a test.

Exam 7 is supposedly the toughest one. It's the Beast. It involves a lot of accounting principles and covers a lot of material. I think there were around 1,300 pages of reading material he had to get through during his studying. We were really worried that with moving across the world, Brent would lose a lot of study time. Well, he did. The good news? He was able to make it all up at the end. He had 4 days off built up, along with the given day before the test and we had a bank holiday the week before so he was home and studied for 9 days straight (with sundays off, of course). He studied over 70 hours the week before the test. I don't even know how he did it. I know my brain would have been mush by day 3 or 4.

He said he feels really good about how it went, despite the usual worries that he wasn't fully prepared. He didn't leave any of the questions unanswered and found that a few of them were "gimmes".

We are SO excited! Now our England fun can really begin. You better believe we are going to live it up this summer with traveling and sightseeing around London. We have about 2 months before he needs to start studying for exam 9 (yeah, they're out of order, it's weird).

After his test, we met at Piccadilly Circus (kind of like a mini Times Square) for lunch and a movie.

We saw Wolverine. A little violent, but I'd say it's a must see for any X-Men fan. They brought in some really great X-Men that have never been featured in the other movies, my favorite being, Gambit.

The movie theater was really fancy, as seen in the pictures below. My favorite parts, other than we pretty much had the theater to ourselves, were the shiny white rocks in the bathroom sink, and the colory lights everywhere.

(These are all phone pictures so pardon the poor quality.)

The super fancy bathroom, with its tv screen in the mirror and crazy sink.

The stairs down to the screens from the ticket counter (they are underground) & the sofa lounge where you can sit and wait.

The snack booth and the lounge area by the bar. Yes, full bar at a movie theater. Weird.

After the movie we went home and just vegged out and had smoothies and finger food for dinner. It was a fun afternoon and Brent had lots of time to decompress his brain.

Oh, one more thing about exam 7, after passing it, actuarial students finally get some recognition! He will be an Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society. A little return on our investment, you could call it. He will be recognized at the annual meeting in November in Boston.

You do realize what this means, right? If he can pass the next 2 exams on the first try, we'll be done with this charade next May! NEXT MAY!! We're SO close! No pressure, dear. :)