12 hours in a cah

We took a vacation from Ithaca, and I took a short vacation for blogging – though you know I missed you… right? J

We headed out on a road trip to Boston… 6 hours – wow! I’ll say right away, cheers to Uri for braving the road there and back.

So – I’ll mention weekend highlights in bullet points:

• Saw a cranberry bog – very cool
• Uri went to Pandemonium, while I walked around and took pictures of Cambridge
• I slept until 10 am (Spring break woohoo!)
• Ate at some nice places: 
  Petit Robert Bistro – that was surprisingly reasonably prices (mid to high range)
  Punjabi Dhaba  - great Indian food, best Palak Paneer we ever ate and a name that’s really fun to say.
  Christina's Ice Cream - Locally made Ice cream in all kinds of interesting flavors (I has the strangest ones with Ginger - very yummy, and azuki beans - kinda neutral and went well with the ginger), Uri had maple walnut and malted vanilla
  Cheesecake Factory - this was our lunch pit-stop on the way to Boston.  Not bad at all actually, though the decor is horrendous.  I thought that maybe it was intentional - they wanted the place to look cheesy.
• Found a store called Restaurant Depot, and convinced them to let us shop there, since Uri has is a caterer - saw huge containers of canned foods. sauces and spices, bought a case of Italian EV olive oil (12 liters) for less than $80. 

Notice that getting a sofa is not on that list – yes, we looked for one, we drove out to IKEA and walked around the whole store.  That store is amazing is that no matter what, once you walk in the door you are compelled to walk the whole store, making no shortcuts.  And when you walk the whole store, needless to say you always find little things you want.  Marketing genius.  However, despite their whole “you put it together”/ brown box philosophy, the only couch that we liked and was in our price range was not boxed at all.  It was just the whole coach, as is, with some cardboard at both sides and a lot of saran wrap around it.  We looked into buying a roof rack, with no luck.  So we just left it there… oh well.  We’ll try keeping an eye on Craig’s list and hope for the best.