Solstice Update 2 (Now with more dinosaurs)

We're moving steadily along, in this Solstice thing.

The cookie-blitz is *almost* over. Our tired-almost-3am brand of strange humor went into the decoration of the cookie packages.

As promised last year, there are dinosaurs at this year's Yule. In the oven right now are three adorable salt dough dinosaurs. There are also cartoon dinosaurs (and things that wish they were dinosaurs) on our cookie packages. Hurray for long dead things!

(The cats are most perplexed by our late night up-ness.)

Going to Rocky every week is great practice for staying up all night. I can remember years past (four or five years ago) where the vigil was an intense struggle for me. I was just not a night person. Now I'm pretty used to being up until 5 or 6 in the morning. Score.

Things left to do: Contemplate making bubble bread (very good middle of the night bread); finish cookie-blitz; drive drive drive.

(My shirt is entirely covered in flour, corn starch, and confectioner's sugar.)

Rawr! (Yule: the final chapter)

t-rex, originally uploaded by applesticker.

We survived Solstice again. Somehow I'm still awake -- been up for 24 hours now. As soon as I finish this post, I'm going to try to lay down.

Around 4:45am we got in the car and headed over to the meetup point. From there we drove down to Pt. Pleasant. For about 20 or 30 minutes we froze on the beach while we waited for the sun to come up.

It was pretty cloudy so we thought we wouldn't see anything. We did see something -- although it wasn't the sun. When sunrise time hit, the ocean and the sky completely changed color. Norma called it "an ocean the color of dark wine." Very pretty.

Went to Atlantis Diner afterwards and attempted to eat. Couldn't really, which is normal for long nights.

I'd say this Yule was a great success. We made lots of great cookies and cute little dinosaurs, we jumped around to fun music, and got to almost see the sun come up over the ocean. And I didn't get very tired at all. Super keen.