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A little holiday spirit

On Sunday Douglas took me to the Dickens Fair. It was a nice way to compensate for the decided lack of holiday spirit in exams. Most of the people who do Victorian also do Renaissance Faire so it's almost the same scene, except that I'm not quite as familiar with the costuming rules.

I spent almost the whole day dancing at Fezziwig's, or at least learning to trip over myself a little less in a Viennese waltz (and make a fool of myself trying to dance lead with a girl...) and bouncing around the set dances they did. In one we got to draw air swords and gallop at our partners. There is a pretty obvious crossover between the people who are crazy enough to dance at the Dickens fair and the people who frequent the Gaskell's balls, as well as with (more surprisingly) the Friday Night Waltzes, neither of which I've actually managed to go to yet.

Today... the beach at Half Moon Bay. The weather was beautiful, stunning, clear after all the storms. And the waves were amazing. I could be wrong, but I don't think I've seen the Pacific up close since coming back. I didn't bring my camera, but other people have pictures of the awesome sand cliffs here and here.

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