It seems this year’s family vacation would take us to Pennsylvania. My father was born here, and this is where we buried him in 2001. It’s time to go pay pops a visit and see the rest of the family as well. I decided to cronicle this adventure more for the sake of posterity for my family than anything else. But if you care to read about it, feel free!

DAY FOUR:
Today started pretty typically. We get up and get ready to go out and do something. Today we went to my cousin Rhonda’s for leftovers which was AWESOME if you ask me. It was perfect leftover cuisine. The kind that sets up, mingles, and just gets happy as it sits in the fridge. … What? I’m a foodie.

It was nice to see Ryan and Bridgette and their son JC. It was snowing like crazy again today and it seems, JC took a spill outside in the same spot I did.. Ok, this is the part where we shake our fists at the sky and curse random gods. Nobody else slid into the home puddle today though, so that was good. Kids are resilient, he’ll be fine. :) Me, on the other hand, my shoulder still hurts! Anyone got any pain meds? Upload them to me here, please.

After lunch we went to a local market and looked around. We didn’t stay long, so hopefully tomorrow we will stay longer at the Amish market. It would be nice to get some interesting spices and whatnot while I’m there.

Dinner found us at Red Lobster. Now, mind you we’ve been stuffing our faces so far today like we were the poster children for gluttony. What’s this? Red Lobster is having their Endless Shrimp promotion? AWESOME!! And, by AWESOME, I mean, GOD HELP ME I’M GOING TO DIE! So yeah, I now know what it feels like to have 70 - 80 shrimp carcasses folding around in your stomach. It’s not nearly as good as you’d think. I mean, going down they were awesome. :) And, when you consider 80% of them were scampi style, you can understand. I must have eaten two sticks of butter in addition to all the shrimp… The point is, this is ridiculous and MUST STOP! I was supposed to be on a diet and a non-smoker… Now I smoke, and I’m eating like a prison camp escapee. Someone stop the insanity!!

Ok, all for now, peeps. Chat at ya later. :)