My trip home to Fairport was wonderful. I was able to spend time with my parents and get away from the insanity of my life in California for a bit. There was not much time to relax between appointments and working (yes, I worked on my vacation...what a good girl I am!) and parental bonding time. I realized that I missed those little things in life, like grocery shopping with my mom and then cooking dinner, and washing the "fleet" of vehicles with my dad. It was such a wonderful feeling to wake up on a Sunday morning to the smell of coffee brewing and the newspaper waiting for me.
For the first time in the history of the world, the weather in upstate New York was PERFECT during the month of October. It was sunny and 85 everyday, without a cloud in the sky. The leafs on the trees just started to turn colors. I did not think I would ever miss fall, but it was a nice change after two years of living in yearlong summer in SoCal. I was able to enjoy the beautiful change of seasons with the great weather. My mom and I sat outside to sip our Starbucks. I hopped on the back of my dad's Harley and went on a long ride to Lake Ontario with him, after a morning bicycle ride down the Erie Canal. The three of us even went to the pumpkin patch in a quest for the perfect jack-o-lantern!
Every night after the gym, my parents and I would get drunk off of expensive bottles of wine, and talk and laugh together for hours. By the end of the trip home, I was ready to get back to California and detox my poor liver...but the business trip to Sin City the day after my return made that a bit impossible. And what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!
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