First Day of School: 15th Grade (3rd Year at Oberlin)

Ok so actually only one of these pics is a first day of school, but dorm move in and bike acquisition are key moments in college life. Z's back in Tank, in a single this time which they are THRILLED about, and taking 3rd year at Oberlin by storm. They are only on campus for Fall term because they will be spending Spring term in Woods Hole (Cape Cod) and then on a 6 week blue water voyage between St. Croix and Cape Cod researching micro-plastics in the Sargasso Sea, but that's another series of posts. Have a kickin' Fall term, kiddo!

First Day of School: 10th Grade

AJ started 10th grade, and drive themselves (heavily supervised by Wes, of course) to school today to start off their sophomore year of high school. Have a fantastically amazing school year, kiddo!

Have I mentioned the Rocks?

Hanging out at Second Rule, getting ready to climb

A random cave with a bunch of animal bones - something that looked pelvis-y, maybe dog sized, and lots of smaller bones too.

Z and N sizing up Winter Harvest

This was truly unposed, and at the time I didn't even realize Nick and Z were "standing" on Charlie's feet! Wes checking either food hours or weather. Possibly both.

Had a super fun time at Reed's Creek! Everyone climbed the 5.7 Second Rule (Zara led it, Charlie cleaned it) and then a combo of Zara and Nick lead Winter Harvest, which included some extreme MacGyvering of running the stick clip up to Nick who was 50 or so feet in the air, but apprently they've been there, done that and have already perfected this technique and it just seemed awesomely improv'd. Charlie slayed the top rope version, with yours truly belaying, and while Wes would have liked a crack at it, it was getting late and people were getting hungry. We ended up grabbing a smorgasbord of random but real food at the Sheetz in Petersburg, because even on a Saturday nothing is open after 8pm out here. A good day off was had by all.