{"id":977,"date":"2006-10-23T08:34:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T08:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=977"},"modified":"2014-01-04T03:18:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T03:18:29","slug":"happy-monday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2006\/10\/23\/happy-monday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Monday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m back in Ohio and back at work.  A friend needed a ride to
\nCU this morning, so I got up at 5:50 and left the house at 7:20 so she
\ncould be here by 8:00 (or close to it!).  That actually is a good
\nthing because I needed to do some class prep before I actually get to
\nclass today!<\/p>\n

The weekend…I will get to pictures tomorrow.  The road trip was
\ncertainly that (a road trip), but it was a good time away with
\nEric.  We left at 4:30 on Thursday and drove into PA, stopping in
\nDubois (as you probably saw on Friday).  On Friday, we drove the
\nrest of the way across PA (rain), into NJ (rain\/clouds), around NYC
\ninto NY (clouds) state and then onto I95 which is the New England
\nTurnpike.  Things were moving along just fine all that way, until
\nwe got into CT on I95. Then we hit a traffic jam.  We went 10
\nmiles in 2 hours!  
\nSo we should’ve gotten to our hotel at 4:30 and instead didnt’ get
\nthere until after 7:30.  YUCK!  So we went and got some
\ndinner and tried to unwind a bit at the hotel.  The one nice thing
\nwas that the wind blew all the clouds away while we were sitting on 95,
\nso there were blue skies in CT for us to see!<\/p>\n

Saturday was a leisurely day for us.  We drove around the
\ncoastline on a scenic highway, stopped at a beach\/state park for
\npictures and to walk around.  Then we headed to our only
\n“official” activity: a ride on a steam train.  We were supposed to
\nalso go on a riverboat on this ride, but the boat wasn’t running that
\nday because of the wind.  It was sunny, but very windy!  So
\nafter the ride, which was very cool, we did some more driving
\naround.  We went up and saw the Gillette Castle (originally the
\nhome of William Gillette, who was the original Sherlock Holmes) and
\nwalked around there for a bit.  Then we stopped at an outlet mall
\nto wander around and get some supper.  Then we headed back to the
\nhotel and watched tv and relaxed.<\/p>\n

Sunday we left the hotel at 7:30 to come home.  We did NOT drive
\non 95 back towards NJ.  Instead, we headed up 84 into NY state and
\nthen down into PA near Wilkes-Barre and Scranton on I81.  We got
\nback on 80 to come home (and then it clouded over and rained again) and
\ndrove it all the way into Ohio (cloudy\/no rain) where we picked up 76
\nin Youngstown, then back to 71, then back to Columbus (about
\n6:30)!  It was lovely to get home.  My butt hurt so bad from
\nsitting for so long that I decided to lay on my stomach on the floor to
\nwatch TV and veg out.  But it was just nice to be home and sleep
\nin my own bed!<\/p>\n

Overall…the views in CT were no better than the ones in PA and NY
\n(actually they were probably better overall). The train ride was fun
\n(we bought Kelly and Holly engineer hats and train whistles…won’t
\nChris & Deb love that!). We got some good pictures and had a good
\ntime together.  And we won’t be taking another road trip for a
\nwhile! 
\n
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