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Thanksgiving was arriving - an American holiday consisting basically of extended family get-togethers (like 10-50 people), numerous lavish helpings of turkey and pumpkin pie, and then falling asleep on the lounge watching American football. A friend Jeremy invited me down to celebrate Thanksgiving with his family in Pennsylvania. Thanksgiving morning saw the first snow of the season (bottom left) and the food was definately aplenty. The next day we made a day trip to Pennsylvania where we inspected the cracked Liberty Bell (right) and saw the Benjamin Franklin museum and his grave (bottom right). We ate Philly cheese steaks for lunch and that evening went to the Phillidelphia Art Museum but never went in, we just ran up and down the stairs where Rocky did his training in the Rocky movie. See our Rocky impersonations (below right) and me feeling athletic suspending myself horizontally between the museum pillars (below - I'm the little black line between the second and third pillar from the left).
On returning from Pennsylvania, I went with a friend, Michelle (left), up into the mountains overlooking New Paltz to a reserve called Mohonk. Its a beautiful big hotel with a large natural lake (below left). Michelle works in the Mohonk spa so we gained free entry and walked up the trails to the summit which gave a good view of New Paltz from a man made lookout tower (right).
New Paltz winter has well and truly set in. The temperature can drop to -15 (-19 with wind chill) and sometimes the snow dumps so much they call off classes. Some good snow fights have broken out (top left), and snow men/women have been built outside my dorm (bottom right). Students are grabbing their snowboards, toboggans, cardboard boxes and dining trays and going sledding (left), and sometimes you might even forget where you left your push-bike (bottom left). Surprisingly the campus ducks and geese never migrated anywhere and still swim in the mostly frozen over lake (above), (someone was game enough to make a snow angel on the lake last week and didn't fall through).
