Immediately after my finals, we drove to Geneva, NY, just in time to spend Christmas with Seth's family. A few days later we hit the road again to celebrate the new year Southern style in Raleigh. After a week and a half here we took off back up north to NY, with an overnight stop to visit Mark, Gina, Kate, and Adah at their new home in Fairfax, VA, not too far from their old home. We used to enjoy paying them a visit on our way between NC and NY, and it is nice to be able do that once again. Now that we are back in Waltham, it is time to start concentrating on the start of the semester...
On New Years Day I went with my family to Topsail Island for their annual Dolphin Dip. This started as a fundraiser a few years ago but now everyone in the community participates 'for fun'. Basically, it involves a mass of people jumping into the chilly ocean at the stroke of midday (ie. at noon there is a countdown and everyone rushes in, gets hit by a wave or two, then almost immediately rushes back out). After all the hype I was convinced the water would be deathly cold (my brother was dramatizing the urgency for medics to be on hand), but it was a warm day, about 70 degrees, and the water, though cold, was not 'bone-freezing cold'. In fact, there were a couple girls, about 7 or 8, splashing around in the waves even before the countdown began.
Dad, Andrew, and I did the Dip
Dinner at Stromboli's
Carter helping Mom pack away the Christmas decorations
Meeting up with Meghan in Chapel Hill before Seth's big gig. It was quite a plate of hummus, a nice change from eating meat twice a day for several weeks (I think I filled my yearly quota of Animal during the break).
Seth rocking out with John, old-school style, at the Cave.
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