Yellowstone pictures

I had planned to upload a bunch of pics from my camera phone but I can't get them off the phone right now. So instead I have put up some pictures from my trip to Yellowstone with Mon and Jin. Click on the picture for the whole album over at Picassa.

Some Yellowstone Pics

Aspen and snowboarding

I just got back from a week in Aspen. Believe it or not, there is a physics center there and a few conferences are held each winter. As I said in the last post, the days are long from 8am to 7:30 pm with a break in the middle of the day for skiing or boarding. I decided to try snowboarding. It was a lot of fun and I am now good enough to take on moderately interesting runs.

On the first day I took a lesson and was doing well. Just before heading in for lunch I was tired but wanted to do "one more run". Of course those are famous last words, and I fell and hit my head on an icy part. Normally this sort of fall would be a little painful and somewhat disconcerting, but nothing to write home about, but the weather had been very warm and melting and packing of the snow had left the bottom of the mountain fairly hard. I hit the back of my head and suffered a mild concussion. Pretty harrowing actually, since I was out for ~10 seconds and when I came to I couldn't see for another few seconds. My instructor knew it was a bad day so he had made me put on a helmet even for the bunny slope. He said if I hadn't been wearing it they would have taken me out of there in a helicopter.

Anyway, I was dizzy for about a half hour but after lunch I was ready to go back out and I had a decent afternoon. I also went back a couple of days later after some new powder had fallen and had a great day. I'm defiinitely hooked.

It is a beautiful place, Aspen. The resort where we stayed (at an affordable reduced group rate) was very nice. Here is a view from my room.

My dwellings

This blog is to be a departure from the last one "New York Apartment Hunter". So for the transition I'm posting pictures from all the places I've lived in new york, and this will hopefully be the last time I discuss housing.

This first picture is from my apartment on Roosevelt Island in the East River. It had by far the best view.


This one is from Washington Square Village, Apt 13F. This apartment faced north and actually had a view of the empire state building. This picture is facing northeast looking down 3rd street.


These last two are from the same building, but Apt 9C which faces south into the garden. When the construction is finished it will be much more quiet than 13F.





There is my first post on this blog!
Erin