Here is a basic list of the things I hope we will be doing during the winter break of 2005 in New York.
What we plan to do
This year, like all years, we will meet
Taro, a resident of the basement.
He,
as you can see below, spends most of his time in weird places such as by the
staircase, or under the barrels. We have noticed that he has gotten less
scared of us ever since we have stopped picking him up.
One of our favorite activities is going
bike riding to the nearby town of Alloway, which we will most likely do again
this year if the ground is not two icy. There, we usually cross the main
road, NY Route 14, and stop on the bridge and take some photographs of the
creek. It certainly would be more interesting if the creek was frozen, but
there
probably
will be no chance of that, since I have never seen it frozen before, but who
knows, maybe it will this year.
Across the creek is a little bit of forest land where we like to go exploring. This year, I hope to see an animal. I know this is highly unlikely because of the cold, but maybe there is an animal that like the cold.
In the little bit of forest, across an old bridge where the water is almost always frozen under it during the winter, we wander around and climb dead tree limbs. This year, I hope I will be able to find one almost at breaking point and convince my dad to go on it.
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Left: The view from the bridge leading into the forest |
One of our more unusual activities is to build a gigantic snow pile in the backyard and climb on it until it gets smashed (usually on the fifth or sixth try).
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Here is the sequence of climbing up the snow pile | |
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Well, it had better be a good vacation, and my Dad had better have gotten me a good camera, or else someone's going to be grumpy the whole vacation (me).