In my absence, I spent lots of time with my dearest friends. There have been dinners, adventures, cook outs, going out, dancing. All of it, and more. It has all been worth noting, but one of the best adventures was a journey to Maine. Alex‘s parents recently purchased a little wooden house right on a small pond, and they were gracious enough to let us take over for a weekend in honor of Alex‘s birthday. So we did. A total of 16 of us (though not all at the same time… that maximum was 14) and almost 300 beers (most of them craft brews).

A cocktail of several 20-somethings, delicious beers, kayaks and a paddleboat, 80 lbs. of ice… the fun cannot adequately be described, but these are some of my favorite photos:

There’s plenty of new blogging material to come, but there’s also lots of hard work to be done in real life. Stay tuned, and I will do my best to share something every day (or close to it).