Monday, January 09, 2006

New Year’s Trip 2006: Too Cute to Impute

I’ve been home for the better part of a damn fine week, so it’s probably time to refresh my recollection of a wonderful trip to Maryland to visit my wonderful family with a few photos.  Here’s a selection from the top of the crop, to give you a tiny flavah of how the folks back home party in the new year:

Zach has a predeliction for grabbing fleshy protruberances in his iron little fist.  Sometimes this leads to photo ops:

and sometimes it’s just an excuse to beat up on my father in law.

We were a well-wired household.  At some points, laptops outnumbered partiers.  In such circumstances, it’s important to get the newcomers comfortable with the techno-centric focus of our new world.  Thus, here’s li’l Nate with a few babysitters; I’m in the back teaching some of the old-school “analoggers” how to play Fluxx.

New Year’s Eve supper was one of many gourmet delights I enjoyed while vacationing.  Here’s Pat and Paul, revelling in the anticipation of munching down on lobster tail.  The blur is Kel’s sister Karen, in “game mode.”

And how did Zach enjoy the party?  He tells me it was an orange-biting good time. 

That’s probably enough cuteness for right now.  I wouldn’t want to knock your insulin levels too far out of whack this early in the day.  Enjoy, and I’ll catch you later on with something further.  Or other.  Whatever, dude.  I’m off work for five weeks!