Heading home to irony

We got up and had a small argument about how to handle the day.

My wife wanted to spend the day walking around and seeing sights then heading out at the end of the day. Somewhere there she forgot that I need some rest if I'm going to drive 425 miles by myself.

After a bit of discussion we decided to check out and hit the road about 10:00 or 11:00 in the morning. We checked out of the room, packed our car and headed out for breakfast.

We finally hit the road at about 10:45 in the morning. A few days ago there was the bombing in England so the lines at the border to enter the US took a bit longer. We didn't hit the road until 11:30. About an hour later I pulled over for a quick stop to get some gas. My wife wanted to go to the bathroom and that took some time, I decided to make a quick pitstop as well. We picked up some smoothies at Dunkin Donuts, picked up gas and haeded out. Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes.

At 3:00 or so I pulled over because the smooothie worked it's way through and I needed to go to the bathroom. We hit a rest area spent a short 15 minutes there and continued.

Once we hit 5:00 or so my wife suggested we pull over because the baby needed to eat and stretch his lettle legs and we needed to eat something too. We stopped over at the McDonald's in the middle of Nowhere, NY. I'm getting a little tired ot McDonald's because that's my wife's preference for fast food and I'm getting to the point that I wouldn't mind a little variety. Anyways, our stopover was for about 1 1/2 hours before we hit the road again.

It was another 3 or so hours before we parked the car near our building.

We just so happen to see our neighbor in the apartment below us who asked us if our toilet was running. We told him we were gone for several days so we are unaware of any problems. He assumed it was the neighbor below him because he's renovating his bathroom. So we pulled ourselvs together and headed upstairs.

Just our luck, it was our toilet that was running, according to our neighbor it was running since Friday. So here we are, we left Niagara Falls, NY's source of running water to come home to our own personal source.

Our superintendant came up and shut off the valve. I would have done it but I could not locate it. After a little work on it he told us he'll have to fix it tomorrow, we got it just to the point that we can use it for now.

We'll get it repaired tomorrow.

We left at 11:30 in the morning and arrived at our home at 8:30 in the evenving. Total time came out to about 9 hours including about 2 1`/2 hours of break time...That's about 6 1/2 hours of travel that comes out to about 65 miles per hour. A far cry better than the way there.