East Coast Vacay Plans!

Yay! A flight has been booked as of 8:20pm last night, August 18th, 2010!

I am officially going on vacation as of September 12th. Sigh of relief. AND the price of the flight actually decreased since last week. Virgin America rules!

We will be landing here...

Boston. Before driving northwest to a little town called Royalton, Vermont. This is where we'll do some....

camping! Haven't decided yet if we're bringing the tent with or renting once we're there, but either way, sleeping bags will be used! September in Vermont is beautiful, so I've heard. And the Four Springs Farm is not only a great camp site, it's also an organic farm that produces bushels of yumminess - enough for a local CSA program. And they have a bakery! Can you see me now? Gorging myself on home-baked berry pies?

After a couple nights of camping Vermont-style, we stay in the state to check out this place....

NECI (New England Culinary Institute) to see if it's the place le boyfriend wants to commit himself to for the next 3-4 years. I think that would be a rockin' adventure - I'm fully supportive!

But we can't leave the East Coast without checking out the competition from this place...

the CIA. No, not where they run around in black suits and spy on each other. The Culinary Institute of America, people! Big stuff, they've got a campus in Hyde Park, NY - but also in Healdsburg, CA (just to the north of us) and in San Antonio, TX. However, only the NY location has the BA that le boyfriend wants!

And since Hypde Park is only 2 hours north of my godmother, Jill, it just wouldn't be right unless we stayed with her a night and visited this place...

The Big Apple! We'll fly out of JFK (probably) and head home, with many big decisions about le boyfriend's academic future on our minds and lips.

Should be a kick-ass vacation with lots of yummy food along the way - no worries, I'll blog about that too! Now, back to the work day. I was at home yesterday recouping from the nasty anti-virals the doc gave me - man, do they make you exhausted! So, catching up is on today's agenda!