The Holidays

More holidays... I hope everyone had a chance to have a relaxing, mellow couple of days. Anna came out from Boston and Irene came down from Shutebury for a couple of very enjoyable days. The weather remained mild for this time of year (global warming/climate change... believe it!) so we were able to get out alot. Christmas eve was packed with a slammin hike to a resevoir just south of here. Irene and Anna arrived later that evening and we had a wonderful meal ala Ericka followed by games and a video. Today, we woke up and followed the Ericka family christmas tradition of stockings, breakfast then exchanging and opening gifts... wow... lots of paper noise, oooooos and aaaahhhhs and silliness, letting the coffee/tea do its thing and enjoying every moment but exhausted at the end of it all. We got it together later on enough to have a little romp on campus where Aman had the most bizarre accident, burned his hand pretty badly on a jet of steam coming from a manhole cover... but we made it through to the most amazing dinner. I put the boys down and then came down to two scrumptious pies and listened to the rest of the gang playing Wizard while I uploaded pictures and vids. The pics are classic and to understand the silliness of some of the vids you have to google "russian climber" and watch this 10 min clip of a guy doing this sport call freerunning where folks use anything and everything to climb and jump etc. Anyway, we are heading into a week of chill time. I hope Aman's hand feels better tomorrow so we can romp (we had it on ice all night... vamos a ver). We will probably go to Beacon, NY to visit Dad and Janet and all the Ruhes down there towards the end of the week.... Old_man’s_freerunning#3 Old_man’s_freerunning#2 Old_mans_freerunning#1 Old_man’s_freerunning#4