so...i didn't write much in february besides all the marine mammal happenings that have been....happening. i also made some time to leave the cape & explore!
first adventure was to....narragansett, RI. we went the first weekend of february as a belated birthday celebration for me. we stayed at meredith's aunt beach house -- 17 of us on friday nite! with only one bathroom. we pretty much just took advantage of being able to be social (i.e. drinking) in a HOUSE. very exciting. on saturday, we headed to newport to hike some of the cliff walk on the coast as seen here:
& this is meredith & i posing on the trail:
saturday night was a lot more low key. we went out to dinner and just hung around the house, played scattegories & watched SNL. man, we are such party animals.
the next weekend was our big excursion to NYC for a long, valentines day weekend. 7 of us inviltrated the city & the townhouse of lisa's friend, alex. friday night was definitely an adventure in itself. we were getting ready to jump on the subway to take us...i actually don't know where we were going, but alex got on the subway first & then the doors shut right away, leaving the 7 of looking at each other, wondering what to do next. luckily (?) the train schedule was all mixed up & alex hopped off @ the next stop & ran back to where we were. THEN on the way back....we accidentally hopped on an express subway....& ended up in harlem @ 4 am! no fun. but we found some cabs & made it back safely to alex's apartment. alex lives 1/2 block from central park on the west side, around the corner from where john lennon was shot...so we walked through strawberry fields & then worked our way to the MET.
here is our group in the park:
& then we made our way to times square:
sunday, meg, tim, (our) alex & i headed to brooklyn for the night because time & alex both have sisters that live there. we took the brooklyn brewery tour, ate some tacos that were made in a truck & then went out to some of the bars in the area. I LOVE BROOKLYN! very much more my scene than the city.
this past week we had our mid-year retreat with the whole corps in eastham. it was 3 days of 28 people stuck in a beach house. ACTUALLY...it was surprisingly more fun that i had anticipated. we did a talent show on monday nite....where korinda & i taught everyone camp songs! the theme of the retreat was "civic engagement"...so we spent some time on tuesday talking about the different kinds of civic engaged citizens & where we fall during our time of service out here. tuesday nite we did AMERI-TRIVIA! good times. it was a lot different from the first retreat because we now are VERY comfortable around each other & it was fun during trivia that we mostly knew everyone's little stories. wednesday morning of the retreat, monica found a little dead seal treasure on the beach that seemed to have been attacked by a coyote, so i called IFAW & got to take some level A data....i.e. taking out the lower left jaw bone & a skin sample.
LOOK AT ME!:
it was my first time getting to do level A out in the field, so i was excited to find that i knew what i was doing! very cool.
so....that should update everyone on the big happenings in feb. i am currently planning my spring break trip to montreal....super excited!
stay tuned.....
-A
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