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I've been in New Hampshire all week for Christmas. I've taken a bunch of photos - fewer than I should've, but I still got some good shots - and will upload them when I get back home, but for now I've emailed this one to my Flickr account so I could post it.
The trip out here was a bit troublesome. For whatever reason, I didn't get any sleep the night before I left - as usual, I didn't start packing until late in the evening, but then once I did get to bed with about 3 hours available to sleep, I never fell asleep. Still, I didn't feel stressed out, and when the shuttle bus to the airport pulled up outside just as I was walking down the stairs, I thought that was a sign that the trip was going to go smoothly. However, because of crappy weather in NYC, all flights headed to JFK were delayed, and my flight actually docked at the gate and started letting people out about 20 minutes before my connection to Boston was scheduled to leave. That might not have been too bad as the connecting gate was just down the hallway, less than five minutes' walk, but I arrived at that gate only to be told it was too late, the plane was closed and leaving. They transferred me to another flight leaving in a couple hours, but from LaGuardia rather than JFK. My luggage hadn't made it onto my scheduled connection, which would have been okay, except that it also didn't make it off the first flight in time before I had to catch a cab over to LaGuardia. As a result, I had to spend all the next day, Christmas Eve, wearing the same clothes I'd worn the day before while traveling. Fortunately my family has no Christmas Eve traditions and I could just lounge about the house; even more fortunately, the delivery service got my luggage back to me just after midnight that night, so I had fresh clean clothes for Christmas after all.
Besides the nuisance of delayed luggage, the trip has been pretty good so far. Christmas was nice, I got to recharge my spirits with the annual boisterous LaRose family Christmas gathering. Yesterday (Thursday) was the all-important gathering of my original core circle of friends, the first time in twelve years all four of us were together again. It was just like old times: despite making plans to meet earlier in the afternoon, we didn't get together before 6 pm when we met at Bob's Pizza for dinner, we didn't start getting down to business with our role-playing game (AGON this time) until 9:30 pm, and we didn't finish up and leave Scott's house until after 4 am. It was a lot of fun, and although I wish we had (a lot) more time to spend together, I'm glad we had this opportunity to reconnect.
Today (Friday) my parents and I went to the Christmas Revels at Sanders Theater in Cambridge MA. That was the first time I've actually walked across Harvard Yard (as in the university) and also the first time I've been in Sanders Theater, which is really nice (unfortunately I didn't get any photos inside except for the lobby area). The Revels were fun, and I might look into going next year to the Puget Sound production.
I'm really tired though, from being up so late the night before and then only getting about 5 hours sleep this morning. So I'm off to bed after this. Tomorrow morning is a small family brunch to mark my birthday (which is December 31), and then I'm going back down to Boston to another friend's birthday party. Then I fly home Sunday. This flight's through Dallas, hopefully I won't be delayed and lose my luggage again - though at least this time if that happens I'll be home, where I have more clothes to wear.
The trip out here was a bit troublesome. For whatever reason, I didn't get any sleep the night before I left - as usual, I didn't start packing until late in the evening, but then once I did get to bed with about 3 hours available to sleep, I never fell asleep. Still, I didn't feel stressed out, and when the shuttle bus to the airport pulled up outside just as I was walking down the stairs, I thought that was a sign that the trip was going to go smoothly. However, because of crappy weather in NYC, all flights headed to JFK were delayed, and my flight actually docked at the gate and started letting people out about 20 minutes before my connection to Boston was scheduled to leave. That might not have been too bad as the connecting gate was just down the hallway, less than five minutes' walk, but I arrived at that gate only to be told it was too late, the plane was closed and leaving. They transferred me to another flight leaving in a couple hours, but from LaGuardia rather than JFK. My luggage hadn't made it onto my scheduled connection, which would have been okay, except that it also didn't make it off the first flight in time before I had to catch a cab over to LaGuardia. As a result, I had to spend all the next day, Christmas Eve, wearing the same clothes I'd worn the day before while traveling. Fortunately my family has no Christmas Eve traditions and I could just lounge about the house; even more fortunately, the delivery service got my luggage back to me just after midnight that night, so I had fresh clean clothes for Christmas after all.
Besides the nuisance of delayed luggage, the trip has been pretty good so far. Christmas was nice, I got to recharge my spirits with the annual boisterous LaRose family Christmas gathering. Yesterday (Thursday) was the all-important gathering of my original core circle of friends, the first time in twelve years all four of us were together again. It was just like old times: despite making plans to meet earlier in the afternoon, we didn't get together before 6 pm when we met at Bob's Pizza for dinner, we didn't start getting down to business with our role-playing game (AGON this time) until 9:30 pm, and we didn't finish up and leave Scott's house until after 4 am. It was a lot of fun, and although I wish we had (a lot) more time to spend together, I'm glad we had this opportunity to reconnect.
Today (Friday) my parents and I went to the Christmas Revels at Sanders Theater in Cambridge MA. That was the first time I've actually walked across Harvard Yard (as in the university) and also the first time I've been in Sanders Theater, which is really nice (unfortunately I didn't get any photos inside except for the lobby area). The Revels were fun, and I might look into going next year to the Puget Sound production.
I'm really tired though, from being up so late the night before and then only getting about 5 hours sleep this morning. So I'm off to bed after this. Tomorrow morning is a small family brunch to mark my birthday (which is December 31), and then I'm going back down to Boston to another friend's birthday party. Then I fly home Sunday. This flight's through Dallas, hopefully I won't be delayed and lose my luggage again - though at least this time if that happens I'll be home, where I have more clothes to wear.
