Wednesday March 15, 2006

Of course, the party could only go on until about 2 AM, and the Science Service staff were not particularly amused with our proposal of taking this time to visit those monuments we never really got to see. So we trudged off to bed--sort of. Actually, a group of about ten of us ended up in Irina's and my hotel room to pull an all-nighter so as not to waste the few hours we had left together.

An all-nighter in the hotel room. (Photo by Luke Moller)

But morning came nonetheless, and we had to say our goodbyes. There were hundreds of hugs exchanged that morning as we realized that this really was ending, even though we knew that we'd make sure we saw one another again.