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we miss you, jess and amol!

après ski

ski weekend

oh, targhee! i love thee.

at one time this weekend we were on the chairlift with an old hippie guy. (probably high.) robert told him he teaches english at byu-i, and the old man said, "oh, so you teach all 'thee' and 'thou' and stuff?" robert said, "yeah, sure."

that was the only time we rode the chairlift with someone else. most of the time the chair lifts were empty. we had all that beautiful snow to ourselves. skiing through fresh, dry powder is like skiing on a wedding cake. or a birthday cake?

i got to ski on my birthday. and i got to ski on martin luther king jr. day, too. wish come true.

drive all across the land, with my friends all in the van

We went to Bethany Beach, DE

via Trap Pond State Park. We camped next to some interesting neighbors, friendly bugs (they generally left us alone) in a thunderstorm and 90 degree-at-midnight-with-full-humidity weather. We've never camped in weather like that before and it was fun.

We thought it might be a lake, but it was really just a thick pond.

We missed the memo about bringing bright umbrellas.

We swam.

Amol rode.

and at the end of the day we were tired. Too tired, in fact, to tell Jess we were all going to make goofy faces.

Swimming with Thomas Jefferson

While trying to post this I was interrupted twice by power outages.

This is the University of Virginia.

Thomas Jefferson founded UVA in 1819.

Robert runs through sprinklers.

This is Lake Monticello, not for from TJ's old house.

weekend getaway

we went to beautiful Tilghman Island on the Chesapeake Bay for the weekend.

this is the drawbridge that connects Tilghman Island to the rest of the world.
we saw about a bajillion churches. I guess the east is more religious than the west.

this church was founded in 1672

the red one is a school

I put my sunglasses over the camera lens for this picture. I have really huge sunglasses.
our hotelier told us about a bunch of wild turkeys and a peacock that live on the island, and a minute after that, there they were.



we found Sprecher Root Beer at a local market and decided it is the best root beer we've ever had.

fresh, local seafood!

we were so glad to get away, and to explore, and spend time in the car together, and walk around together, and spoil ourselves with little treats like root beer and chocolate.