People up north are RUDE!

For Richard's birthday this year we decided to take a trip up to CT to see his brother and sister in-law. Little did we know what we were getting ourselves into.

First every store in Clinton, CT only seems to accept cash - have they not heard of something called the debit card?? We went to the beach and had to pay to swim, that is if you dared to swim once you got to the beach front... There were jellyfish everywhere and the beach was DIRTY!!!

On the day of Rich's birthday we went out on Brian's boat and that was fun, except it was very very chilly, and there were jellyfish EVERYWHERE again, definitely not like boating off Florida shores. Rich was going to tube but thought better of it.


Saturday we went into New York city, the day started off kind of rough with Jodi having to tell a McDonald's working to stop yelling at her because she didn't know if Brian wanted cheese on his sandwich or not, and was trying to ask Rich, however the day turned out to be a blast, except it was EXTREMELY busy!!! Everywhere you turned there were more people!!

And what exactly does it mean to "curb your dog"??

Sunday we took a trip to a Submarine Museum - that was fun, and we got to go down into the USS Nautilus, and then pretty much rested the rest of the day because we were still all worn out from NYC.

Monday we headed back into Columbus, not without problems of course. Our car broke down in the middle of New Jersey Jodi's car kept blowing off the oil filter cover and literally dumping all the oil out of the engine onto the ground, so needless to say 3 hours, 2 oil changes, a 95 dollar cab ride, and a 14 dollar part from the nearest Chevy dealership we were back on our way home, morning sick mommy and all.