one day left in our visit to central ny and i'm mourning the imminent return to school on tuesday. first comes the drive, though, but fortunately, tomorrow will be spent in ithaca and i'm excited. trevor got a gift card to the ithaca bakery and it's been a year since we've visited the commons. oh yes, one of our favorite places. it's been fun spending time with trevor's family and today i got to reunite with a friend and former classmate from syracuse university and then a former coworker. so great to see them! christmas day we drove to my aunt and uncle's house and then almost immediately after lunch, we hit the road for ny. unfortunately, we stopped after a few hours as it was dark and rainy. wanted to stop in harrisburg, pa, but no way we could have made it that far. the best western we stayed at had us go through three dirty rooms before we got a clean one. they had let their cleaning staff have the day off, but the receptionist was new and well... we *finally* got a clean room. only place open for food other than a gas station was the waffle house and that was an hour and a half ordeal just to get our food. of course, took 45 minutes to even place an order and then after waiting half an hour and returning from the car where trev and the chai lilly waited, the guy finally called out our order. with a close call of potentially not having any plastic ware with which to eat our food, someone finally found some in the back and we returned to the hotel in order to eat, watch tv and hit the sack. for the second night in a row, i felt like i had forgotten how to sleep after waking up at 2am. i convinced myself that i no longer knew how to sleep. fortunately, sleep finally found me. otherwise, nothing so interesting going on, but times spent with family are priceless. :)