The great thing about going "home"[as many of us still refer to it as...and indication of things to come?] for a vacation is that it usually can save you money! If you're staying at your parents house, that means a week of free meals ["Oh, we haven't seen you in forever, lets go out to eat!"], lounging on the couch reading and watching TV and drinking coffee, playing with pets that you'd like to have yourself but have no time/space/money for and raiding the pantry for snacks that you're too cheap to buy for yourself.
I am, however, fortunate enough that my dad bought my whole family tickets a while ago to go to the MU/KU football game at Arrowhead this Saturday. With the teams being ranked #3 and #2 repectevely, it is going to make for quite a game, that's for sure...let's just hope that MU can pull it off, because I'd rather have Iran win than KU. Yes, these are bold statements, but KU is the root of all that is evil, the spawn of Satan...you get the idea.
New York City is starting to get into the spirit of the season, as only New York can. Walking around the city you are start to notice the lavish decorations, from the giant Christmas tree being adorned in Rockefeller Plaza, to the delicate and luxurious window dioramas in the department stores of Bergdorf's to the lighted garnishes that hang over all of the streets in Astoria. Tis the season and nobody does it better.
Oh yeah, it's also the time of year for some pretty amazing sunsets:
