The word "Goodbye" always makes me think of Alfalfa...

I'm totally the kind of person that only reads blogs if there's lots of pictures and not very many words... sorry. :-)
This is the last day. The plane leaves at 6:55pm tonight. Sadness.
I've hardly told any of what I've done in the last three weeks. Three weeks! I've been here three weeks! It feels like I arrived only yesterday, but I've gotten so much done since I've been here anyway.
The basement still looks cluttered, but it's much improved since we've come here. The attic is a tad neater and tidier and the garage has been organized a bit and a few loads of old things have been taken to the second hand store in the village.
Mom and I did some cleaning out and then held a garage sale. Or, well, she held a garage sale. I went for a walk. The Farmer's market is a dangerous place when you have a $20 in your pocket. That mennonite banana bread was really yummy. :-) I took lots of picture with Grampa's SLR and hopefully I'll be able to get them onto the computer when I get home. I have to find a place where they'll develop and scan the negs onto a disk or something for me though. I don't trust anyone to do my prints for me.
That Saturday night, Mom and I went camping. Putting up a borrowed tent in the dark is quite the experience. :-) But we did it! and then we stoked a fire and had hot dogs and hot cocoa and then went to bed. I think I'm getting old. And I don't think that just because people keep exclaiming, "Agh! you're so old!" (people that haven't seen me in ten years, that is). No, I think I'm getting old because sleeping on the ground is not so comfortable anymore. We camped Saturday night and then crashed on the floor at a friend's house on Sunday and Monday nights and by Tuesday afternoon I was quite tuckered out.
Oh and it didn't help that air mattress' lose all their hot air when I'm around...
;-)
Monday. :-) Monday was full of adventure. I can't wait to post some pictures. :-)
We went to Wellesley Island, NY. <--You should click on this link. :-) We walked around the village on the island and saw all of the island houses. <---You should click on that link too. :-) (these sites kinda suck but it was the best I could find, it's not exactly a technologically advanced neighborhood and I don't blame them. I wouldn't be on the internet if this was out my front door either!) We saw the Wellesley Island Hotel and almost fell asleep on the porch. And then we found our way over the the Boldt Yacht House only to discover that it's no $31 to see the Castle on Hart Island, but only $9! Hoorah! So we quickly paid our dues and hopped aboard the ferry to go see the Boldt Castle! (you'll have to google that one... I'm done searching links for now.) I hope to be able to put up the pictures that I took. It was pretty darn cool. :-)
On the way back to Gramma and Grampa's Mom and I stopped and had Friendly's for dinner. If you don't know what Friendly's is... get a life, dude. :-P (I know, that last link was Wikipedia, which is not reliable at all, but it has the story) We actually didn't get ice cream, but the loaded fries were so good that ice cream wasn't needed :-) Speaking of ice cream... I could use some right now. I think ice cream is my new favorite hobby... I'll have to walk over to Lickety-Split later, before we leave for LA.
*sigh*
So this is it... I think I've rambled enough and finally come to the last blog post of this trip... Should I buy that $25 bottle of perfume? It smells just like lilacs...
Samia