This is a long blogpost. Just warning you in advance. Encompasses arriving into Ithaca, spending a day in massage school, champagne by Beebe Lake, dinner at Moosewood Restaurant, the breakfast the next day and the drive back. So be prepared.
Old friends, Nicole, Edmund and young Oliver have made Ithaca their home for some time now. Ithaca is about 400 kms from New York City and Carl and I decided it was time for a road trip to visit them.
We picked up our car and drove with the sun at our back. The landscape was amazingly rugged as we headed further up north. I kept Carl awake by talking non stop, of course and also simply yelling out all the signs - just sounded funny. We were eager to get to Nicole and Ed's also because we knew there was a Vietnamese dinner waiting for us. Armed with bottles of wine, we managed to find their lovely home even with our navigation system dying out on us.
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| Oliver stayed up to say hello to us |
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It was a late night for everyone, just catching up but we had to call it quits to get some sleep. The next day, I was headed to Nicole's massage school to sit in with her in her massage therapist training. The day bounced by with us sitting on bouncing balls in class. I learnt about the neurotransmitters involved with massage and also how to concoct lotions and potions, thanks to Nicole. We headed home with my stash of purchases from their store.
At home, Carl was waiting with the surprise. Apparently everyone else was in on it. We headed out on a walk to Beebe Lake, which was beautiful with honking geese and just us.
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| Beebe Lake |
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| Am not too sure we are supposed to be drinking in public! |
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| Hic hic, I love champagne! |
But that was not the end of the surprise. Got back home to discover that a babysitter had been arranged and we four were heading out sans Oliver for a double date! Off we went to a super duper vegetarian restaurant - Moosewood.
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| Moosing around |
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| Some of us never grow up |
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| Not sure what was going on here. |
A lovely evening of catching up including a massive breakout of giggles when Nicole told the tale of how I got stuck in a water slide, how we rescued Joey a baby bird, and well tales of the old days.
The next morning I woke up to find Oliver reading and then later while Nicole prepared an indo mee breakfast for me, he played hide and seek - pretty much by himself because I waited by the pot for my Asian noodles for breakfast.
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| My breakfast - noodles with Indian omelet and baby kailan. Carl's breakfast Indian omelet and baby kai lan on toast - was so weird it had to be photographed. |
Soon ,we packed up and drove through the Cornell campus and off, off and away back to NYC!
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| The architecture building |
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| A building to host every religion |
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