Hubby & I flew home to spend the Jewish New Year with our respective families this weekend. One of the things that really sucks about living 2500 miles away from most of your family is how hard it is to get quality time with them. Try as you might, there's always someone you don't have time to see on your trip home. This time it was my sister. Nevertheless, in 72 hours, we managed to:
-Fly into Newark airport, pick up a really inexpensive rental car (thanks Hotwire!)
-Get lost in NJ as we tried to find our way to Staten Island and from there to Long Island.
-Spend an evening and a morning with Scott's mother, brother, wife, and our two wonderful nieces.
-Drive to Northern NJ for a Rosh Hashanna dinner with some of my dad's family
-Eat like a pig and then drive to Fairfield county CT to spend some time with my parents at their country house
-Spend a day in the country ducking the rain, running errands, and eating like a pig some more (featuring a rack of lamb and lots of homegrown veggies from Dad's garden).
-Drive into Manhattan on Monday for lunch with my grandmother (celebrity sighting: Chris Noth of the "Law & Order" franchise was 3 tables away. He's a hottie!) and some quick shopping at a few favorite stores for bagels and deli we can't get in SF.
-Finally, drive back to Newark and back to SF.
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I know the feeling. When we go back to Baton Rouge for the holidays it's always so crazy. Everyone is just so busy with the holidays you never get a chance to catch up and visit.
We ended up switching to going home on Thanksgiving instead of Christmas because things are a little calmer. However, this year, we're going to go down in January after all the holiday crush and see if that's not better.
Since we only go home about once a year, we want to make the most of it and spend real _QUALITY_ time with our friends and family. So I know how you feel Rachel.
Sounds like you still had a pretty decent time for what little you had. :)
Posted by mashby | October 2, 2003 12:26 PM