Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Climbing Shale

I will leave for Santiago exactly six weeks from today.

After a morning of tutoring and reading, Tony came.  We made smoothies and grilled some chicken for dinner.  After our meal, we went on a drive through beautiful Sewickley.  We stopped at a craggy-looking rocky cliff of sorts on the side of the road.  Upon closer inspection, we noticed that the cliff wasn't made of large boulders, but rather, small layers of shale.  The rocks themselves were made of smaller divisions of themselves.  The cliff was vulnurable, and simply pushing on a stone would create a cascade of avalanching shale.


This is the late beginning of our summer of adventures - our brief, truncated, six week adventure.  We have composed a bucket list, consisting of some fifteen items which we are determined to complete by my departure.  We look forward to visiting Philidelphia and New York, a day at the wave pool with friends, golf and tennis, fresh squeezed lemonade, and a night at the drive-in movie. 

This last month and a half will be my attempt to fit in as much local fun with my favorite man before being shipped away from him for four months.  Here's to the summer of 2012 with my best friend Tony!

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