|
Today marks the first day of a new era - with the two new cabins finally occupied. Emmy & Michael hosted Michael's parents, Mary and Barry Hoke. Jen and Dan hosted two families (Naomi & Seth and Henry & Kimmie), each with two children. Joan and Bill hosted Maisy (Jen & Dan's dog). So 20 souls and 2 dogs inaugurated the new era at "The Compound"
57 images  1b. Family  1c. Friday was spent at Emmy & Michael's, helping set up their furniture, which arrived Thursday (it had been stored in their dining room, library, and basement for several months). Good timing, as it snowed all day Friday. Here they are, making plans.  2. Further consultation and the famous wordless Ikea instruction book   4. Ten dining room chairs ready to go...  5. Unpacked with assembly line strategy  6. the hardware and child labor...   8. Thalia writes her name on the bottom of the seat of her chair  9. nearly done...  10. also 4 bar stools  11. one of 2 identical beds finally correctly assembled  12. Thalia and Matilda enjoy the cardboard and styrofoam  13.  15. Grandma traces Thalia  16. Slide!  18. Sleigh!  20. lunch  21. Nina (Mary) and Pops (Barry) arrive  22.  23.  24.  25. Zippy  26.  27. assembling the king size trundle bed en famille  28. Cheers!  29. Pops reads The Tomten to Thalia  30. First dinner  31. bedtime  32. The next day dawned sunny and warm. This was taken up above the log cabin  33. All 3 cabins  34.  35. Jen & Dan's - "Mountain Abbey"  36.  38. Emmy & MIchael's  45. Saturday breakfast  46. Thalia takes her first picture. She took the next two as well  47. by Thalia  48. by Thalia  49.  50.  51. connect the dots  53. Jen, Dan, Zach, and Clara arrived late morning, and the kids wasted no time getting into the deep snow. This is Clara walking carefully on about four feet of snow  54. Zach puts finishing touches on snowman  55. Clara and Zippy  56. Clara and Zach  57. A low deck is great in summer, inviting one to walk off into the woods. In winter, however, the downside appears - to clear the deck, one must toss the snow high....  PART 2 1. As the sun set on Saturday, we gathered at Jen & Dan's Mountain Abbey for a toast  3. Naomi, Seth, and daughter Sara  4. Henry and daughter Chloe  5. Matilda and Grandpa  7.  8. Elan, Zach, Chloe  9. Chloe and Clara, who was making bracelets with Rainbow Loom  10. Matilda, Sara, Thalia  12. Seth  13. Naomi, Chloe, Kimmie, Jen looking at pictures from 1997, when the adults were all at Penn Med  14. Seth, Naomi, Chloe, Kimmie, Jen  15.  19. Kimmie, Emmy, Sara, Naomi, Joan  20. Naomi, Sara, Seth, Elan  21. Looking at old pictures (1997)  22.  23.  24. Sunset on Red Peak over Emmy & Michael's cabin  26.  27. Matilda & Jen, with Dan waiting...  31. Dan and Matilda  32. Jen & Naomi - Med student friends, 15 years on...  33. MDs, UPenn, 2000   36. Barry, Kimmie (MD, Penn Med, 2001), and Chloe  37.  38.  39. Dinner at the log cabin with Emmy, Michael, Thalia, Matilda, Mary, and Barry  40. Live dinner music  41.  |