So, Huckabee and Obama won, and we are waiting for the cantankerous New Hampshire voters to upset the outsider apple carts.
As it turns out, the NH primaries have been a much better predictor of national election results than the Iowa caucuses: 70% accuracy over the last ten Presidential elections.
Month: January 2008
New Year’s
I forgot to blog about the 2007/2008 Newport New Year’s events that the kids and I enjoyed this year.
We did some new things: a boat trip and sight-seeing/seal watching excursion to Rose Island and swimming at the Middletown Y.
We watched the Fort Adams fireworks from Jamestown; Robert and Emme got to see them from indoors, which pleased them greatly.
We had a terrific lunch at the Atlantic Beach Club and our traditional Newport Creamery Awful Awfuls.
I rented a Rav4 to give the kids who have to sit in the back a break.
We totally lucked out for weather. The worst part of the trip is packing up and driving to Milton for the New Year’s Day visit with Bis, but we missed the snow, had rain the whole way, a mercy.
Through Brockton on Route 24 at 1:30 in the afternoon, it was 35 degrees. Four hours later, on the Cape, it was 44 degrees. Believe in the ocean effect.
Freezing
Last year, it caught up to us on January 17.
It was early this year.
It’s cold. No, that’s not an adequate description: it’s unbelievably, horrifically, wind chilled to below zero, hyperborean, mythically cold, Mount Everest kill zone cold.
I am not a warm weather person, but this is crazy, insane.