New York, New York

So I went home for the weekend, again. And like the last time I was pretty busy almost the whole time. Thursday I left my house at 6 am to make the trek to Yankee stadium and my parents were taken down memory lane about 10 years. See, I have a tendency while I am at home only, to go stomping through the house getting ready for the day only to end up running late and making everything in my path look like a wind storm hit it. This only happens when I am home...I've never had this problem anywhere else, except maybe 820...anyways...my parents felt like I was back in high school again, running late for the bus. And, I have to give Zach credit because he did meet my dad at 6 am and that has got to be intimidating. We made good time through NY, PA and NJ...until we got to NYC. New York traffic...uh sucks. It took us about 2 hours and 15 minutes to go 5 miles. And that was on the way to the stadium in the middle of the day...coming home was not much better. I got to see the Red Sox lose at Yankee Stadium. That was kind of the lesser of two evils, because as much as I would have liked to see the Red Sox win, Zach is a Yankees fan, and because they won, it made for a much better ride home.

The next morning it was up early to run errands and get ready for day 2. I finally have my bridesmaid dress for Mandi's wedding and it's beautiful and it fits! So I believe I am all ready for that wedding, which is good considering it's in a month and a half. Then it was off to the State Fair! We did the usual state fair stuff (Dinosaur, wine slushies, watching horses in the coliseum) and it was a pretty good time. And I think for the first time in years, I did not run into one person I knew at the fair.

Saturday we went horseback riding at Highland Forest. I'm happy when I can be around horses in general, so the fact that the trail riding wasn't all that exciting or not like riding at all...was pretty much ok with me. I think it's pretty funny when I think back about how the Highland Forest trail ride was like the excitement of my summer when I was 10! Because I got to trot! Wooo! Then we got Twin Trees that night with my parents...which was good, because I haven't had good hot wings in a very long time.

Sunday was the first day that I got to be really lazy. I slept in until 9...which is pretty late for me. I managed to trek out to the field and find Chris and I even sat on the porch and read...which I haven't been able to do in forever!

Tomorrow its back to Utah so I can land at 10:20 pm, drive to my apartment and then be back at the airport at 5:30 am to fly to Clearwater. Yes, I realize that this is insane. And there are many reasons for why I couldn't just fly to Clearwater from NY, the least of which is that it would have been more expensive, and our meeting wasn't definitely set in stone until last week...so I'm stuck going NY to Utah to Florida. The things I do to be dating someone... Upon arrival in Tampa I will probably face plant on the hotel bed and be in a coma state until the next morning...when hopefully caffeine will get me through my meetings. Now as long as I don't spend the night in the Cincinnati airport I should be ok...

That is all!