New Year's Eve Aftermath

No, this isn't a hotel room recently vacated by the likes of Keith Moon or Howard Hughes. This is our living room floor the morning after our New Year's Eve party. Looks like that hippo sure had a good time.

We weren't sure how late our girls would be able to stay up, so we celebrated the New Year on East Coast time... then Central time... then Mountain time... and finally Pacific time. Yes, they made it to midnight, and our living room ended up with the aftermath of not one but FOUR New Year's celebrations all over it.

Happy New Year! 2011 is apparently going to be very, very messy.

Bellingham Polar Bear Swim

Some of the crazier people in Bellingham celebrated the beginning of 2010 by running around Lake Padden and then running into it for the annual Polar Bear Swim. And although I'm not in this particular shot, I was one of the crazies rushing into the water. We were very lucky this year-- it's been unseasonably warm, and while the water was COLD, the air was 52 degrees... which is 20 degrees warmer than last year!

Happy New Year!