I Brought Back Cookies from the Italian Store

Had a good time in NY. Had pizza and Italian cookies in NY. There might be some other point to NY, but I don't know what it might be.

The strangest things happened friday morning - we got up, made a plan for the day, and got NINE PEOPLE out of the house before 9 a.m. How bizarre is that? Kind of makes one wonder what was about to go wrong, doesn't it?

Nope. Nothing went wrong. We went for a lovely walk and saw this sign of life in rural upstate New York. We got et by a bunch of skeeters, but that hardly counts as something going wrong - that's just spring happening to you.

Dan graduated on saturday. Here's a picture of him and Briahna (she's graduating today). Doesn't he look all growed up and competent? I mean, if you didn't know him and all? Don't worry Dan, most prospective employers will buy it... and by the time they figure it out, it will be too late.

It very politely did not rain on graduation - good thing, too, or the cookies would've got wet! They were pretty good cookies. They had cookies shaped like pony heads, with green sprinkles (school color and mascot), chocky chip cookies, M&M cookies, peanut butter cookies, and some others. There was lemonade, too.

Another day it did not rain was tuesday. I guess I should say the other day it didn't rain. Maybe it did rain, but it didn't start till after we got done with our hike, and that's the only important part of the day. We went to a waterfall. Two waterfalls, actually.
This is the first one. It's called Beaver Meadow Falls. It's near a meadow. The meadow supposedly contains beavers. Didn't get to see one. Saw a muskrat, though, which probably tastes a lot like beaver (Paul? Dale? Input on that topic?). The second one is Rainbow Falls. Didn't get to see a rainbow, either, but there was some snow next to the falls. I like snow.

We went to China Buffet after the hike. We actually got to go to TWO China Buffets this trip. It was awesome. And they were totally different buffets, which is not often the case with China Buffets. They had different sauces on their sauteed green beans, for instance, and one place had sushi and chocolate fortune cookies, and the egg rolls were different... but the lo mein was the same. I am pretty sure that all China Buffets sign a pledge to serve the same lo mein. It's probably their way of taking over America - as if China Buffet needed any help taking over our thoroughly distended tummies.

So... that basically sums up vacation. Hiking and China Buffet. There was also a day of mini-golf, but I don't have any pictures of that, and it was a very stressful mini-golf day. Not ready to talk about it yet.