Hi everyone. We haven't been up to much the past couple weeks, so there really hasn't been anything exciting to post until now. On Sunday we drove up to Cooperstown where each year they have a big pumpkin festival. On Saturday they weighed the pumpkins and handed our ribbons and such, then on Sunday they carve all these massively huge pumpkins and hollow them out and race them on the lake. They use kayak paddle and people actually get in the pumpkins. I took some photos of the race but they didn't turn out so well, then I remembered that we can take video on our camera, so I recorded some of the race, and that's below. It was pretty sweet.
Then last night, Monday, we went over to a friends house to watch a presentation by this woman Elie, who spent 6 months on a research vessel in the Arctic in the middle of winter. Frozen in the ice and drifting where ever the ice wanted to drift. It was pretty interesting. We were her test audience, as she'll be giving the presentation in New York City, Paris, and Oslo, Norway in the coming months. I'm not sure what she does, she's not a scientist, but she travels alot all over the place. Anyways, that's what we've been up to.
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