Coming up for air...

The last several weeks Mike and I have been buried under stacks of books and reams of paper since we're scrambling to finish up our DPhil theses - hence the conspicuous lack of blog posts! We managed to come up for air last weekend to attend the annual Rhodes Ball. This was actually the first time we've ever been able to go to the Ball in our three years here, since the previous two years we were in Botswana and South Africa doing research. It was certainly worth the wait! Here we are pictured with one of our honored guests for the evening: Wilf the Wonder Dog, who belongs to my friend Lindsey and just happens to be the most amazing support dog ever! He also looks quite dashing in his fancy maroon support dog vest and matching bow-tie! Wilf was the beau of the ball... though Mike cleans up pretty nicely too...