Woodsy

I know this is crazy late, but Courtney and I spent the first two weekends of June up in the Catskills at her family cabin. Very very rustic. I dropped a Flickr-bomb of shots from the first weekend, when we were joined by her sister Meghan and her beau Alvaro.
It was a lot of fun up there. They have running water and a gas supply, but no power. No phone or telephone reception, either. Bears, though. And one country-western station. While the combination of those last two might have negated the negative aspects of both, it was not to be.

We rode ATVs around for a few days, dodging rocks and trees and hanging caterpillars. The Catskills are currently being devoured by three seperate species of moth, at least one of which travels by hanging from the trees at about eye level on silk strands and riding whatever animal comes by. I hate nature.

I also totally kicked my girlfriend's ass at Scrabble. I'm awesome! One day, they will build a statue of me.

Seriously, it is beautiful country up there - an excellent place from which to watch the fall of civilization. Hey, it never hurts to plan ahead.

The next weekend we went to Courtney's class reunion at Yale. It was extremely wet and muddy for most of the time we were there, but I got to see some of the fancier bits of campus and meet many of her friends. She has pictures of that weekend here and some shots of Memorial Day here.