A Summer in Photos

What I’ve Been Up To – February Edition

Playing with:

Amy and I received some money for Christmas and we’d been trying to figure out what to splurge on. One day I sent her an email asking, “Should we get a Wii?” I think you could have knocked her over with a feather she was so surprised. Needless to say, I’m not much into gaming and actually made her put her old-school Nintendo system out in the garage when we bought the house. But we got the Wii and so far I’m really enjoying our one game (the one that comes with it) with tennis, bowling, and baseball. In a few months we’ll probably splurge a little more and get the Wii Fit. I’ve heard such good things about it. Do you have any experience with it? Worth it?

Visting:

We went to Cabo San Lucas, Baja, Mexico with my parents and Amy’s parents! It was wonderfully fun and although I wasn’t sick of winter before we left, I sure am now. You can see all my photos at Flickr. A few of my favorite memories:

• eating my body weight in guacamole
• snorkeling at Chileno Bay where we saw all sorts of amazing fish including a moon wrasse and several king angelfish
• whale watching from our patio
• four flat tires at the airport

Photos courtesy Richard Ling (license) and laszlo-photo (license) on Flickr, under Creative Commons licenses.

Reading:

Neil Gaiman. How have I never read anything by him other than his collaborative Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett) before? He’s an amazing storyteller. On vacation I read Anansi Boys and The Graveyard Book.

Other Stuff:

I’ve been doing lots of other stuff too (hockey, soccer, LWD – living with dogs, and working) and will probably write about some of those things at some point. I’ve also got a post brewing about useful software products for undergraduates (or other folks) who want to stop using so much paper. It involves things like Zotero and Evernote, but oh so much more…. Stay tuned!

Sledding Party

For the first part of our vacation this year, we spent close to a week in Maine at Amy’s sister’s new house. There was a big snowstorm the day we drove up, so we all took advantage of the snow and went sledding over the next couple of days. Here are a few of my favorite photos.

Auntie Amy and Cameron go over the jump – Amy poses with the new house

Uncle Karl takes Cameron down – Amy B takes Amy S on her first-ever sledding run

Woo-hoooo!

Holly and Hannah catch air – Karl struggles to stay upright (he failed)

The rest of the set is at Flickr.

Per Hour

This short trip cost us $20 per hour, according to my mother’s calculations. Insane but ultimately worth the cost. We got to see my grama today on our way to the airport, always nice because we don’t spend Thanksgiving with her. Now we are in the airport at Milwaukee, the place of horrible food. Luckily we grabbed some lunch in Minneapolis – chicken and wild rice soup. Yummy! Unfortunately we still have no free Internet (boo MSP & Milwaukee airports) so this won’t get posted until we are home. Off to find a drink before our flight…

Still Around

Even though I haven’t posted in over a month, I’m still around. My time has been taken up with: hockey (camp, games, and tryouts), a trip to Acadia National Park, and work.

To keep you entertained for a moment, here’s a macro of a lovely hydrangea in our yard during a respite in a big storm:

And here is a sailboat from when we were up in Acadia National Park. It’s the Helen Brooks, a Friendship Sloop owned and chartered by Amy’s brother Karl.

Until such time as I blog again, ta!