In early November I traveled down to Atlanta to attend a conference about weight loss drugs. The conference is called Obesity Week, with the tagline, "It's Huge". It was held at the downtown convention center amidst the concrete jungle, and fittingly my hotel room decor celebrated Atlanta traffic.
On my birthday I skipped out to jog on the Westside Beltline Connector bike path. Built atop a defunct rail line, it runs through industrial sections of town. It was eerily empty, which made for an unsettling run.
The week before I ran the Lexington Battlegreen 5K. Maybe it was to avoid the sound of the fife and drum corps, but in that race I set my Massachusetts PR of 26:39.
After my birthday run I had a choice of eponymous eats. The unhealthy one
or the healthy one. I chose the healthy one.
(Here's a list of foods named after people, such as nachos!)
I headed up to Sandy Springs and placed a QR code that links to Heather's Mom's obituary
One random night, the aurora was visible on our street, and again the phone captured the pink and green
Tessie's sleeping buddy
Caroline came home for her winter break from Dartmouth. She trained in the fall with the triathlon team and this is her finishing photo from her 25:57.
Dartmouth is on the quarter system and Caroline had a 6-week break between terms. She signed up for a week-long trip to the Everglades, organized by the canoeing club
They flew into Naples and rented gear from an outfitter in Chokoloskee. They did not detour to visit Nub City
From Chokoloskee they paddled into the Ten Thousand Islands and resisted the urge to invent a new salad dressing...
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Back in Lexington, we had one day of skating on smooth black ice
Tessie doubled up on a birthday chocolate mousse pie on her true birthday
and then a layer cake for her party with friends
For the party we went to a local painting studio
and they all brought home a wintry scene
