Word: ages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little desire to spend the week searching for beach towel space among throngs of other well-oiled and intoxicated people our own age. In pursuit of sun and sand without the MTV Beach House backdrop, we abandoned the college spring break scene and headed out on a inter-generational adventure. (Anyway, staying with the relatives is the easiest way to be cost effective...
First stop--the chaotic home of Abby's aunt, uncle and cousins, where the majority of the inhabitants are under the age of four. In the land of the little people the three-and-a-half-year-old twin cousins reign, and references to "pee-pee juice" and "stinky head" generate ongoing hysteria. We quickly adapted to most aspects of our temporary home: Cheerios, cheese sandwiches and jokes about excretory functions served us well. We watched Bambi, played hide-and-go-seek in the dark hallways of the aquarium and got to be veloceraptors in prehistoric playground battles. But ultimately...
...prototypical National Park day of driving, staring at Visitor Center displays, and photographing rock formations with names like "Pirate's Skull" under our belt, we proceeded to that locus of unique inter-generational experiences--Leisure World, home to Abby's grandmother and 22,000 other Californians over the age of fifty-five...
Overall we're happy to be back home, where waking before nine qualifies one as a martyr and Matt Damon is considered relatively old. But sitting in our dorm room surrounded again by 7000 stressed undergrads, we're left wondering why our society is so drastically segregated by age. It might do everyone a little good to spend more time with both the "poo-poo" and the miniature poodle sets. Maybe next year the MTV Beach House can be stationed in Leisure-World...
...age of bats, both for the Crimson and for its opponents. Until the Miami series--in which the Crimson hitters tallied just two runs in the three-game set--Harvard scored 97 runs in 10 games and never crossed the plate less than five times in any one game...