Vacation Day 5, 6, and 7?
I've lost track hahah, but you know what? That's what vacations are all about, totally forgetting about time and just having fun!
So days 5 and 6 were rather similar... David goes to work, I eventually wake up, play computer games or talk to Auddy till he gets home, go out to some cool place for dinner and just chill for the rest of the night. It was rather disappointing that we didn't get to go to the Sam Adams brewery in Boston... That was going to be a huge highlight for the trip, but they only give tours Thursday, Friday, and Saturday... Well I was sick on Saturday, and had to leave Thursday, go figure... Wish I had brought more appropriate skiing / snowboarding gear, as I think that could have been quite fun if I could have found the slopes on my own and just been snowboarding or skiing while David was at work, but oh well... The problems of poor planning which have prevailed throughout this trip present themselves once again!
Day 7... Was well... Started extremely boring and shitty to say the least.... Simply no better way to put it for the hours of about 6am to 6pm... Only bonus during that time frame was that I got to talk to Audra ;)
Where to begin? Well I spent 3 hours tooting around with my bro getting his crotch rocket (a huge impulse buy in my opinion but whatcha gonna do? I still have way more money than he does lol) so that was slightly unexpected and lead into a huge series of problems because I started too late getting to Philadelphia, PA... So I planned on leaving at 11 at the latest, well I didn't get packing till then, and managed to get on the road by 12:20 ish.... Well I hit 'the shit' (as I like to call it) several times on the trek... It started snowing in Massachusetts / Connecticut, and they did a really shitty job of preparing for this one, 1 of the 3 lanes were shut down due to bad plowing, and the other two were 'safe' at best... In my rush I still managed 40 to 55 in the overly cautious traffic... Then snow turned to sleet and sleet turned to rain the farther south I got till I hit NYC and Rhode Island... By now (due to the delay in getting on the road and snow) it is rush hour, and I hit 'the shit' there too, and spend about an hour or more sitting in traffic where eventually rain turns back to sleet and snow... I never really emerge from that period of 'the shit' as a fair amount of people commute from NJ to NY... And NJ turnpike was on my way to PA... grrrrr By this point I've got some serious road rage going on, and no music could really calm me down...
Well I finally made it to PA, and once again Google was wrong, but in the bad way... Instead of making record time, I exceeded the predicted time by like 40 minutes +.... Damnit....
But, there is good in this day... Spending time with my cousin Allison was awesome... Dare I say, the best day of my vacation to date... We walked to a awesome restaurant and had some awesome food and awesome beer and it was all on her tab! Then we walked to a friend's party (because they are now on spring break starting like meow) and had some more great times! We can just talk and talk (probably cuz we never see each other :-p)... Just catching up with her today made this a great night... Unfortunately it adds another item to the lists of my regrets (including not leaving VA early enough) that I should have come here a day earlier cuz most people where done by then too, and it would have just made for another awesome day!
Oh well, I'm definitely going to plan to make another stop out here sometime late in the summer, between the time she starts school and I am still working... It will be awesome! They have a awesome angry Irish man that runs quizo Sunday nights, I gotta come back for that!
So ends the mainstay of my vacation... A damn good end I must say...
But now for the best part of all (kinda) - I get to go home and see Auddy!!!!!!! I say kinda, cuz I'm going to hate the predicted 12.5 hour drive to home (plus the 1.5 hour drive to the Haute, plus the 1 hour drive to see Auddy)... So I'm predicting google is wrong this time, and it will take me 10 hours to get home, so that's 12.5 hours in the car... Oye...
It's worth it though ;)
So days 5 and 6 were rather similar... David goes to work, I eventually wake up, play computer games or talk to Auddy till he gets home, go out to some cool place for dinner and just chill for the rest of the night. It was rather disappointing that we didn't get to go to the Sam Adams brewery in Boston... That was going to be a huge highlight for the trip, but they only give tours Thursday, Friday, and Saturday... Well I was sick on Saturday, and had to leave Thursday, go figure... Wish I had brought more appropriate skiing / snowboarding gear, as I think that could have been quite fun if I could have found the slopes on my own and just been snowboarding or skiing while David was at work, but oh well... The problems of poor planning which have prevailed throughout this trip present themselves once again!
Day 7... Was well... Started extremely boring and shitty to say the least.... Simply no better way to put it for the hours of about 6am to 6pm... Only bonus during that time frame was that I got to talk to Audra ;)
Where to begin? Well I spent 3 hours tooting around with my bro getting his crotch rocket (a huge impulse buy in my opinion but whatcha gonna do? I still have way more money than he does lol) so that was slightly unexpected and lead into a huge series of problems because I started too late getting to Philadelphia, PA... So I planned on leaving at 11 at the latest, well I didn't get packing till then, and managed to get on the road by 12:20 ish.... Well I hit 'the shit' (as I like to call it) several times on the trek... It started snowing in Massachusetts / Connecticut, and they did a really shitty job of preparing for this one, 1 of the 3 lanes were shut down due to bad plowing, and the other two were 'safe' at best... In my rush I still managed 40 to 55 in the overly cautious traffic... Then snow turned to sleet and sleet turned to rain the farther south I got till I hit NYC and Rhode Island... By now (due to the delay in getting on the road and snow) it is rush hour, and I hit 'the shit' there too, and spend about an hour or more sitting in traffic where eventually rain turns back to sleet and snow... I never really emerge from that period of 'the shit' as a fair amount of people commute from NJ to NY... And NJ turnpike was on my way to PA... grrrrr By this point I've got some serious road rage going on, and no music could really calm me down...
Well I finally made it to PA, and once again Google was wrong, but in the bad way... Instead of making record time, I exceeded the predicted time by like 40 minutes +.... Damnit....
But, there is good in this day... Spending time with my cousin Allison was awesome... Dare I say, the best day of my vacation to date... We walked to a awesome restaurant and had some awesome food and awesome beer and it was all on her tab! Then we walked to a friend's party (because they are now on spring break starting like meow) and had some more great times! We can just talk and talk (probably cuz we never see each other :-p)... Just catching up with her today made this a great night... Unfortunately it adds another item to the lists of my regrets (including not leaving VA early enough) that I should have come here a day earlier cuz most people where done by then too, and it would have just made for another awesome day!
Oh well, I'm definitely going to plan to make another stop out here sometime late in the summer, between the time she starts school and I am still working... It will be awesome! They have a awesome angry Irish man that runs quizo Sunday nights, I gotta come back for that!
So ends the mainstay of my vacation... A damn good end I must say...
But now for the best part of all (kinda) - I get to go home and see Auddy!!!!!!! I say kinda, cuz I'm going to hate the predicted 12.5 hour drive to home (plus the 1.5 hour drive to the Haute, plus the 1 hour drive to see Auddy)... So I'm predicting google is wrong this time, and it will take me 10 hours to get home, so that's 12.5 hours in the car... Oye...
It's worth it though ;)
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3/03/2006 01:13:00 AM
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