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No pictures today as nothing terribly interesting occured which is picture worthy. But I'm home now and resting up before having to return to work tomorrow.
We headed out from the hotel around 11am yesterday morning, waiting for as long as possible to avoid some traffic backups on the George Washington Parkway (or as the GPS likes to call it the "geowash parkway"). As it turned out though, the GPS lady didn't take us that direction (probably because it took a few blocks for it to get a signal to figure out where we were. The beltway going out this time had less cars but was moving a lot faster and it ended up being more scary. That and I had to cross 4 lanes of traffic to get to the exit we needed.
The first plan of action was to grab lunch somewhere, and since Wassy was having a root beer float craving we decided to hit the Friendly's in gettysburg since that would be about the right time for lunch. Once we got there, I discovered that they had added a buffalo chicken supermelt to their selection, so of course I would need to have one of those. It was pretty good although I think I prefer the honey BBQ one. After we ate, we were lead on a wild goose chase around the city by the GPS in search of a gas station. It sent us to one place that had a "cash only" price, one place that wasn't there, once place that was there but didn't have gas pumps and again to a non-existant station. Eventually I gave up and told it just to bring us to the one station we knew in hazleton. It was at this point we drove by 5 or 6 gas stations in a row (stopped at the first one, of course). Sigh. It also took us on some very strange routes through the town. I think it was having a bad day.
The plan was for us to switch off again near Hazlton, but once we got there it looked like it was going to rain quite heavily, so after stopping at a rest stop for some "skacks", I ended up doing the rest of the driving. Let me tell you, I don't want to see another 4 lane divided highway for quite some time. It was a good thing I did though, as it POURED about 5 minutes after we pulled out of the rest stop. And there was some heavy traffic on I-81 going north pretty much all the way through Pennsylvania. Also, I seemed to attract drivers that wanted to kill me. People kept cutting me off all day. Got annoying really fast.
Eventually we made our way back to New York (after seeing some more billboards for questionable massage joints. Speciically one that made it a point to say they worked on all of your extremities. And one that said "EZ On, EZ Off" which could be refering to how easy it is to get on and off the highway to get there...but I'm not sure...) and headed to Syracuse to grab some dinner at Olive Garden. The food and service were good...the lady at the next table over that brought her what looked to be 3 and 5 year olds though...not so good. The little girl was a high pitched screecher and ended up annoying us quite a bit, prompting a rant of epic proportions from Wassy.
From syracuse onward, it was pretty much a straight shot to her apartment to drop her off while we talked about how totally relaxing vacation was and how much we really needed it. Then I headed back to my place (after dropping by my parents to give my dad his Naked Mole Rat plush toy thingy that I picked up at the national zoo) and shortly after bringing everything in, I fell asleep on the couch. Vacation over. Booo.
