Cheer Up Time

Decided it was time to go through the ton of photos and videos I took over the Xmas holidays and New Year's and post something a bit more upbeat than my recent news.

Check it out below -- I apologize in advance for the vertigo-inducing camera work here. It was just after midnight and the ball drop. The one shot my nephew had wanted me to get -- the ball dropping -- was lost when the camera crapped out at the worst possible moment. So what you see here is the aftermath, and my very overwhelmed nephew trying to play it cool for the camera. He'd been dancing like a mad hatter (appropriate, given the free hats that were distributed courtesy of Nivea hand cream), but stopped as soon as I turned the camera. Ahhh tweens! Then he took it from me, hence the last 30 seconds of constant twirling.