Hello from the bittersweet end of Thanksgiving break! It’s Sunday evening, and I’ll be back in class at 8:30 tomorrow morning. I’m trying to savor the last snippets of this short vacation.
My mom took me home after I got off work on Tuesday afternoon. We picked up all the groceries on my shopping list, and I spent the rest of the day making a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving.
On Wednesday, we picked my brother up from the airport and took a day trip to Cape Cod. We spend two weeks camping there every summer, and I’ve wanted to see it in the off season for years. We picked up lunch from a cute cafe and had a picnic at the campground, and then it started pouring, so we went where we always go when it rains on the Cape: Dunkin’.
After a little deliberation and a lot of “What do you want to do?” and “I don’t know,” we headed back west toward home. We stopped for a quick tour of the Cape Cod Potato Chips factory. Stepping out of the car felt like sticking my head into a bag of potato chips. After passing by there so many times, it was cool to actually go in.
The trip was short but sweet, and I got some cute photos. I can cross going to the Cape in the fall/winter off my bucket list.
We frequent during the summer.
Nickerson, my favorite place!
On Thursday, after a quick visit to Grandma, I went straight to the kitchen. I miss cooking when I’m at school, so I jumped on the excuse to make a bunch of things: the aforementioned pumpkin pie, apple crisp, cornbread, and mashed sweet potatoes — all vegan. We did Thanksgiving with some family friends, and there was so much food that I ended up taking home most of what I’d brought, which was fantastic, because that’s what I ate for the next three days.
I’ve been slugging through a long Spanish book for almost six weeks, and I made some good progress over the past few days, reading in bed with my doggo. I need to finish it so I can start a new book!
I’m not really sure how those five and a half days off are already gone. In retrospect, it seems like I didn’t really do anything. But I did workouts prescribed by my coach, read a bunch, and spent time with my mom and brother. It was good.
There are only seven more days of classes before reading period and finals. The deadlines stress me out a bit–sociology paper, computer science presentation, environmental science project–but I know I’ll get everything done. In two and a half weeks, my first semester of college will be over. That’s nuts.
The first real snow is coming down right now!
Update: I just got back inside from a snowball fight and photo walk. I can’t say I helped, but Shafer built a snowman!
