Stephanie's first photo posting- the pride radiates into cyberspace (birthday photos, by the way)

Nice shoes, some impassioned dancing action, and Tom being his cool self- marvelling at his COOL glasses. KT, you're cool too! Fudge! Yeah!

Chris- I'm sorry. His pleeding eyes tell the conflict of a PhD student peer pressured to stay up past his bed time- and drink.
Ross gives this party two thumbs up
And Hannah and Matt applaud it (ps- I applauded Hannah way harder for singing and playing her guitar so beautifully on stage earlier that night)
These folks were the last ones standing, or dancing as it were.

Tors and Butts Road

This was on Butts road, and then, not two days later I was in a town called Cockwood.  I wasn't trying to go to hilariously named places or anything.

Wistman's wood and Haytor

After the wood we went to see this "Tor" (big rock).  It is called Haytor.



Stephanie climbed to the top.  So did I, later.

The Plume of Feathers and Wistman's Wood

Last weekend, 11 friends united on Dartmoor for a day that only happens once a year- the mid point between the birthdays of Stephanie Long and Chris Duke.
We went to the plume of feathers pub and Mike made this huge card pyramid. And we had beers and spent the night. It was super cool. It was like living in a place with a full public bar and restaurant and you could drink as much as you wanted and then just go upstairs to bed. It was like owning a pub, really. Plus it was close to many natural wonders in Dartmoor, so the next day we went hiking and saw some of them.



These antlers were actually mounted on the wall behind me and not mine.



This is Stephanie and Tom in Wistman's wood. Wistman's wood is
haunted by the hunter and his Wist Hounds. It is mentioned in the Hound of the Baskervilles Sherlock Holmes story, and , as you can see, it is cool looking.


Apparently, the King, some time in the 1600's was running out of places to hunt, so they built this wood (or planted it, really) to make more space for him. But, they were ignorant, and they planted it in a bunch of boulders. None of the trees grew properly and they all got covered in what are like scavenging plants like the moss you see. There's moss everywhere in these woods!


Definitely haunted.