The End and Home Again...

Let's see... there was dinner with straif and his wife (whose LJ name I don't recall offhand) which was lovely and most fun, and included the hand-off of the 'dance monkey dance!!!' mix cd, and then more family time (in the bar). Then there was a lesson in actual Italian cooking. And yes, now I can make pizza/bread dough and gnocchi from raw ingredients!!! Next time I hope to learn the ravioli techniques. Next time, I'd also like to actually manage to meet up with cissa, among others. It was a bummer, but I will be back in a few weeks.

So then we come to the last part... ( the high school reunion! )

( And there came a kind of revelation from on high )

And I hit no traffic coming back to NJ!!! It's a miracle. I didn't even get stuck in Waterbury staring at the evil clocktower (which I think is actually a first). I even unpacked my car! Well, except for the logs. I'm kind of procrastinating there... So I go back to work, one of the cooks asks me where I've been, I ask him if he missed me and he says, "Every night, I couldn't sleep!" Good to be back, oh yes, but I really did have a good time in MA.