The sun was setting on the vivid turquoise and dusk-dark blue Pacific Ocean. Because of her Tuesday class, they might have gone to her studio when they arrived home from Thanksgiving weekend at her parents’ home in Princeton, but Caydance and Griff wanted to walk on the beach and wake up in morning to the sound of waves rolling in and out. Day and night in New Jersey, Griff and her Dad talked scouting local High School prospects. Caydance was happy spending time with her Mother. But there was nothing as wonderful as time alone with Griff at his beach house in California.

What she remembered most about Thanksgiving weekend was ice skating together. Youthful memories lingered of spirals, waltz jumps, figure eights, and spins skated with ease, if not as well as the students who would go on to a competition level. Even better was gliding across the ice with Genevieve McGuire's son, who had been on the ice with his Mother as soon as he could walk. After a Raiders teammate saw him skate figures, Griff no longer skated in the Bay Area; he still remembered the years it took to live this down. But, he and Caydance began skating together when they visited Genevieve and Claude in Canada, where surprisingly his knee held, as if ice skating was a never hindered childhood love. In Princeton, Griff showed off his incredible strength and balance. When on his wide muscular shoulders he lifted her up in a rotational lift they had practiced in Canada, every eye in the rink was on them, and the applause was not unexpected.