home again

so i'm home from vacation. yes. although this amount of time between entries on my journal is not unusual. i will start from the beginning, because whether you are interested in hearing about it or not, i prefer to have a written memory of my last true vacation for a very long time.

we left tuesday the 5th after i worked. we skipped our stop at the welcome center in NY and drove on. got up to the cottage at about 3 am. matt's brother jim was still up. the next couple days were deamed "family" days. matt and i got the cottage to ourselves on friday. but i enjoyed hanging out with his family, probobly because i haven't been in the classic family setting (mom, dad, siblings) in a very long time. i was pretty lazy these first couple days, and it took some time to get used to not going to work. i actually ended up talking to matt's mom the most, she's pretty cool to be around. (i know either matt or jim will read this and laugh).
on friday the left. and it rained all day. we went to the finger lakes mall and i bought my mom and birthday present. we ate at the food court and browsed the book store and left. we stopped off at the outlets..the biggest outlets i've every seen. it's a large square and they are all lined up around it in connecting little strips. i bought a real pair of sunglasses that cost more that 4.95$. matt finally convined me to go out on the jet ski/wave runner/sea doo and at first i was petrified then it was fun. we went out to the sandbar and i layed out across it and came back an hour later to the cottage with a sunburn. but i got to drive it a little and that was allright. a family of swans lives in the bay with a mom and 4 babies. they are pretty grown but still fluffy. then we found a family of ducks. and the ducklings were very young. they make little baby duck noises and swim in a line behind the mom. they seem to live right on the shoreline next to the cottage, and they got comfortable enough with us to come over a few times over each of the last couple days for us to feed them bread. the mom always ate the most and kinda kept taking it before the babies could get for it, but they filled up quick. anyway i took pictures. i also saw canadian geese familes with teenage babies. i spent a lot of time in the mornings and the long hot afternoons on the deck watching the birds and reading. i saw yellow finches and even a humming bird a few times which was very cool. the neatest part about having a place on the bay is the binoculars. you can spy on people. : P people on the water in their boats. one of the days early in the morning before it was light out i went downstairs for kool-aid and saw the most awful thing. a glue trap that had been between the counters and stove had ended up next to the kitchen table and a little mouse was stuck to it. i wanted to cry. i wanted to get him off of it. matt had to take care of it in the morning and i can't say anymore because it was so sad. but i know there are more mice because they leave their little mouse turds in the sink and on the drain board and i was constantly cleaning upthe kitchen from them. so i understand that having mice there sucks, i just wish the traps were humane so they could catch and release. i had to throw out a bag of cocoa puffs before there was a hole chewed through the bags. meals consisted of soft/hard taco kits, pigs in the blanket, cheeseburgers on the grill, corn on the cob, zuchinni*, eh...various dollar store chippy stuff. and hershey's hot cocoa on the cooler days. after the ran passed on sunday it was very humid and very hot. i didn't mind not having air conditioning until it got so hot. many nights we spent watching a 6 hour tape of simpsons/futurama/family guy episodes and smoking. i took advantage of the good bananas and ate about 4 over the entire trip. in cereal, plain, on peanut butter sandwiches. peanut butter and banana is sooo good. then i get sick of it, then i eat it again. two nights ago we set up the fire pit and roasted marshmallows.yesterday after dinner we went to the chimney bluffs. lake ontario sits right there. it says no swimming but well. everybody really does and it's not like the ocean at all. so we walked all the way down and waded into the bay. i used a log from the shore to keep balance. there's no sand, but there is a lot of big smooth stones to walk on. the water is crystal clear and crisp and cool. i sat on a rock about 10 feet out. we watched the sunset and took pictures and collected stones. then today we cleaned up and left. stopped on the way home at pull off in the middle of lots of farm land and ate at one of the two solitary picnic tables. what suprised me was there were no trashcans. got home around 9:30. made good time with a few stops we made. good to be back. but i still haven't been home-home yet. lots to do tomorrow. and in case you don't know yet, i'm moving out in 2 weeks..and i don't have any end table lamps (gasp). tomorrow we're goint to do a layout of where the furniture can go.
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