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and all I got was this lousy t-shirt...
No, just kidding. But I did get a shirt from Chicago. Long story short, written horribly fast but still I hope the message is gotten across (writen fast because I typed it to my Xanga on Monday in the local library with only and hour of internet time). It's extremely short-hand and informal, too.
Edit: Oh ya and I took lotsa pictures and there will be more and I'll post some when I get them developed (old fashioned camera lol) and ya...see ya!!!!!
This is my first and probably only post from PA due to limited access to the internet and such...only a friggin' hour a day too what's up with that?
Okay, so early on Monday morning I woke up and we got to John Wayne airport...waited in the longest sercurity line EVER and then to top it all off Chicago was having bad weather (where we were catching our connecting flight) and so we sat in the plane on the runway for two and a half hours! Then on the plane we watched 50 First Dates which was kinda lame but funny...then since our plane was so late we missed our connecting flight into Harrisburg by about an hour and our bags (unknown to us) were shipped ahead into Harrisburg! So, since we couldn't catch a connecting flight cause there were no more in PA, we stayed in a Hyatt overnight so I got to miss one day of being here!! XD
The next morning we went back to O'Hare (Chicago airport - damnit I didn't want to leave I LOVE the midwest!) and the plane (really small one) WAS LATE AGAIN cause the pilot and crew was lost (how do you lose a crew?.... jeebus) And so we rode on the plane and I got fainting spells and tried to sleep but couldn't too nervous about being on a small plane...we arrived...I SCREAMED cause I didn't want to go and was running around frantically then I saw my dad and the journey had begun...
I don't at the moment remember what we did on Wednesday, but on Tuesday afternoon we went to Louise's (my step-sister) ballet class which was boring...and we did other things and it must've not been important since I can't remember it heheh...
Then on Thursday morning we began our long car ride to visit my dad's sisters and his mom in Massachusetts...it was a seven hour drive including rest stops and we went through New Jersey (a noteable town called "Clinton" as well) and New York (Albany) and then finally ended up in a town called North Adams where my father grew up. His mom is living in this like 60 year old home which is dark and creepy and really warm...no AC...I feel sorry for her because she's so alone...(my dad's dad died when my father was 18 in 1980) if she lives longer (she's 81) I'll make sure to buy her a nice home someday near her daughters cause I feel so bad...and my father could give less than a shit about her too...
Then we went to visit my grandfather's grave (which was incredibly creepy - I got a weird vibe!) and Catherine (step-mom) was bawling and then we went to Beverly (dad's sis) home where she lives with Gert (my uncle) and they have a dachshund named Robin - she's ten and very fat lol...we got a uge dinner and dessert and I re-met my cousin Elizabeth and my aunt Wendy and uncle Joe (he asked me to tell my mother he said 'hi') and met for the first time my six year old cousin named Peter. We got to sleep in the somewhat basement and i got to sleep on a gi-normous fold-out couch and it was really nice nicer than what my father accomidates for us....
Friday and Saturday we went exploring and such...climbed this mountain Greylock which had an awesome view and a really tall light house on it for no reason and we could se into New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, etc...and we went to shops in Williamstown at which point Catherine shooed us out of an antique shop because it wasn't for kids which REALLY pissed me off...grrrr...and we walked around a lake, saw Wendy and Joe's new home (extremely nice view and uge home)....then on Sunday (father's day meh) we rode back and Louise was really angry and cried a lot cause she didn't get a bluebird toy...spoiled brat....and again we rode through Clinton, NJ and New York...then we stopped in the biggest store I've ever been in called Calebras or something like that...lemme see....Cabelas...same difference hehe and it was basically a giant republican store - fishing, hunting, more hunting, and a food court and displays with taxodermied animals it was so scary just cause like everyone there was a repub i'm sure...oh yeah and I saw in Massachusetts et al eight John Kerry stickers, buttons, signs and whatnot and so far only one Bush/Cheney thing! Oh yea and I guess everyone but my brother, Wendy, Joe, and myself are repubs and they were having a Kerry and Dean etc...bashing fest it was unbearable....and we had to listen to Rush Limbaugh for three hours on the way there!!!! If it had taken any longer I'd have to listen to Hannity too! But thank god I had my liberal John Mellencamp music to drown it out!
Okay, when we got back we celebrated father's day with my somewhat uncle Ian (cath's bro) and my somewhat grandfather Bob Spitzer (cath's dad) and Ian's wife Gretchen and their baby two year old Ava. Besides the fact we had pizza and cake and swam I learned that Gretchen is pregnant which pisses me off I hate when adults I like have babies and get pregnant - STOP HAVING SEX! lol this is a public computer....
And my plans for the rest of the week is to hopefully be here again to type more and vent my anger and maybe go to Gettysburg which would kick SOO much ass if we did....in the mean while I'm going to get outta the library, walk down to the Ice Cream Cottage and get me some ice cream before Catherine and Louise come by to pick us up.
I did go to Gettysburg and got on the plane safely, but there were slight delays because of rain in Chicago. Also, my father called Howard Zinn (he saw I was reading "People's History of the US") a left-wing socialist/communist...and other things I can't remember.
Again, please forgive the sloppiness. :D
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