During the middle part of our trip back East this summer, Chris attended a Gordon Conference at Salve Regina University on the coast of Rhode Island. At the conference he stayed in the college dorms, ate in the cafeteria, attended lectures and poster sessions and socialized with his chemistry colleagues. His mornings and early evenings were taken up with the science, but most afternoons, he had some free time to spend touring. Included are pictures of the summer mansions dotting the cliffs right on/near the university campus and from his trip to Newport, RI. Of course, as most of you know, Chris's FAVORITE unofficial conference event was the cliff diving! One afternoon, since it had finally stopped raining, Chris and four other attendees hiked out to a well-known cliff-diving spot. Chris jumped twice (about 15-20 ft). The jumping in was apparently no problem...it was the getting out again that caused some trouble. Since it had been storming the past 24 hours, the swell was quite high. After his first jump, while Chris was trying to get hold of the rocks and climb out of the water, the waves pushed him up against the rocks. He hung on tight, but got some nasty scrapes on his arms, legs, torso and fingers. There's a nice picture of that too. :) After his second jump, he found a better method...letting the waves lift him up. Chris had great fun telling all our family members about this adventure once he returned to KY/OH and showing off his wounds! The final pictures in this set are our friends from college, Dawn and Greg and their two children, Sawyer and Gwen. Chris realized (via Facebook) that Dawn and Greg lived quite close by and was able to drive out to visit them before catching his flight home. If you'd like to hear more about the chemistry he saw at the conference, you'll have to ask him. :)
PICTURES 7/3/09
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