Yesterday was great, but waaay too short. We had a smaller than usual gathering of me, my parents, my brother, and my aunt, uncle, and 2 cousins. Dinner wasn't as big as I'm used to seeing (what we usually do is go to my other aunt's house in Burtonsville and her 15' table is loaded to the breaking point with food), but it was still good. My aunt made an amazing stuffing and a delicious cherry pie, and my mom brought her wonderful sweet potatoes. I even tried broccoli w/chese, which I found to be rather unpleasant. And they got left with all of the left-overs, so no turkey sandwiches for me . After dinner and desert, I sat and watched my cousin play Test Drive: Unlimited and Gears of War on his Xbox 360 and we talked sporadically about stuff for about 5 hours. Then we watched "I Shouldn't Be Alive" on the Discovery Channel for 3-ish hours and went to bed. Leaving today sucked, since we hardly ever see them and I like the Harrisburg area many times better than the DC metro area.
The trip up there wasn't bad. But I wanted to kill PennDOT for what they're doing in York. The interchange between I-83 and Business 83 is being upgraded, and I-83's being rerouted, repaved, and improved as well. So PennDOT drops the speed limit through the south end and a bit of the middle (up to US-30) of York to 45. It figures I'm the only one that even tried to follow the limit-everyone else's doing like 70 while I'm trying not to go faster than 50. Past the US-30 interchange, the speed limit got raised to a more sane 55. The state troopers were out in force, too-7 of them pulled a Kia Sepha over. And it misted most of the way up, which made some nasty roadspray. I was happy when we got off I-83 to go through Lemoyne.
Rain and low speed limits aside, yesterday was very good, and I'm sad it's over and I'm home again.