New Jersey, Sunday - 3/13/2011

Forgot to mention that for the past three days I had an awful sore throat and my voice rarely got above a whisper.  Ramifications:

Kat had to take all of my phone calls.
We had a lot of difficulty communicating in crowded places.  St. Patty's parade was a lot of laughing.
Kat had to order our food, like the cheesesteaks in Philly and in the freezing cold at Rita's.
At dinner on Saturday, members of the family would ask questions and more often than not Kat had to answer, though I certainly tried to talk as much as I could.  Too many fun stories to share!
Kat told the front desk at Ceaser's that she was Tricia in order to pick up our room keys.  Then they asked for ID and we had to explain, or rather, I croaked and Kat explained.

Wow, thank you, Kat, for keeping our trip going while I was at half power!!


Anyways, that was relevant as our first destination on Sunday morning was my uncle's chiropractic office for some help with my stuffed up self.  Wow did I feel better after that visit.  He got things moving, the junk headed out and the good stuff back in line.  Backing up a bit, the first stop of the morning had been off to Dunkin' Donuts as we had been given coupons and couldn't pass up 99 cent large iced coffees and cheap, greasy sandwiches.  Hm, health and not so healthy.  Yup, life is a mix.  Side plug, I'd had two different people give me some of the traditional medicinals tea and it felt amazing on my throat!

Second destination of the day was church.  We met up with my aunt and grandma for the service and then enjoyed chatting over coffee hour.  It's a great group of people there and I enjoyed myself as I have many times before.  Fascinating stories and random tidbits of sugary stuff, good times.  Once we had our fill there we headed over to the bagel nosh to pick up lunch and then it was back to grandma's to enjoy some of the most amazing bagels and cream cheese.

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We had everything and egg bagels, some with chicken salad (with dried cranberries, mmm), some with lox cream cheese and most with veggie cream cheese.  After this I felt like going into a food coma but Kat convinced me to go for a walk.  We walked around the lake at the end of my grandma's street and it was a beautiful day for it.  The walk felt great and the fresh air wonderful. This didn't stop me from taking a little nap when we got back and we spent the rest of the day relaxing, chatting and catching up on odds and ends.  Oh yes, and had scrumptious subs and perogies for dinner.  However, our beautiful Sunday of rest, and day 39 of our trip, eventually did have to come to an end.