although the rainy weather was optimal for eft sightings, my search was unsuccessful. i had my eyes trained to look for anything colored red, which wasn't very hard to do considering the forest floor isn't very colorful to begin with. a few things in the forest that i mistook for red newts:

later, BBQ at dan & cymara's, along with double birthday cakes (for cymara), followed by a few rounds of taboo and apples to apples all the way to 1am.