Missing It...

School begins and normalcy returns. That's when the kids are not home, but safe and I am able to see the pillows on the sofa remain where they are supposed to be, untouched - for many hours 'til their return. I know it is back to routine when one called to tell that she forgot her schedule and asked me to email it to her account. I am not a sad momma who got beaten down by a quiet house, I need that sometimes too. I could use that for sure.

With them being away for a few hours, I was able to work, practically, in peace. I have so much to catch up and works to follow up. But even with that, I, somehow, felt something was different. I felt like I missed something. I did not feel I had a complete summer. My summer is normally filled with tons of traveling, moving from one city to another, driving in the car and finding direction from GPS that sometimes goes crazy at times. One hotel to another. Packing unpacking, packing unpacking and again..... This time, the traveling we had was rather short.

I miss Kathy's house in Michigan, I miss her and miss being there and looking at her Campbell's collection. I came across these pictures that we took when we were in the USA and Canada in the Summer of 2004. We covered many places including British Columbia and Toronto and Quebec. We drove from Toronto down to Michigan and all the way to DC and New York. It was exhausting but fun.

Statue of Liberty, Capitol Hill, tunnels in Pittsburgh, streets, highways, trees and fast food chains everywhere... my summer is just not the same without a road trip in the USA.

PS: I miss going to Target, Walmart, Macy's, Crate & Barrel and William and Sonoma too, just to name a few........

From NYC Street

7th Avenue was having a street fair when we were there. Street vendors were selling everything from food, t-shirts, glasses, jewelry, and lots of other things. Prices were good too! Lots of great bargains. It was TMTH for us after a while. To TGIF we went. Lunch!

Skip-Skip Fast Forward

I have to do some skipping and fast forwarding of our trip before writing more of things we have done and witnessed, because there has been way too many things took place and I hardly had enough time to update.

To sum up the past days, we left Hershey to Princeton via beautiful Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania.


We took a drive and had some look at beautiful Princeton University and yes, it is an excellent university!!! We left Princeton the next morning and drove to New Haven and went to Yale University before driving a crazy jammed drive to Providence. The traffic was absolutely slow and we were extremely exhausted.

Providence

Yesterday, we toured around Brown University before we picked up Miss L after not seeing her in three weeks. Her class was scheduled to finish at 12 and she has informed the party concerned that she would clear everything by 12:40. We then had a great lunch at the restaurant that she picked and afterwards, with the car full of our luggages, headed to New York. To our surprise, the traffic towards New York was much smoother. The hotel that we got, however, just utterly awful! New York!

As of this morning, we have driven more than 3600 miles, we flew from JFK to Orlando and arrived in the afternoon. Everything went well, we landed safely and got another Ford Explorer that appears to be well taken care of. Now, we are enjoying Orlando, an exciting place to be in. Really really truly enjoyable! We all are having a great time.

More later!!!

Hi & Bye Lake George

We had a quick one night stop in the neighborhood of Lake George, New York, saw many hotels and inns and theme parks around, including one of Six Flags parks. We checked out the lake just to see how it looks like and drove to Wal-Mart shortly after. The only interesting thing was a view of a limo driving nearby, couldn't help wondering who's inside.

Nothing much was done, we needed so much rest after driving all day. Yawn, yawn, snooze..... zzzzzz ..... deep sleep!