Day 443

Yesterday started off with a little less adventure than usual.  We had breakfast with our hostess, then got all packed up.  We'd planned on going to the Financial District, but then decided not to because we got a little bit of a late start.  So instead we went to Coney Island for some pizza.  We got there around 11:30, but the pizza place didn't open til noon.  So we just walked around a little bit until it was open.

Pizza!  I think it was my favorite thus far.  Most of the people there had some pretty significant Italian culture.  It was great.

After pizza we walked along the boardwalk for a little bit, but we didn't have much time left before we needed to get going.  We did see Nathan's hot dogs!

But we didn't get to stop.  Hurumph.

The plan was to pick up Jasmine (the daughter of Kimmy's mom's friend) and bring her back to Findlay with us.  The daughter's parents are in need of some medical assistance, so they thought it would be really helpful if they could all be together for a while.  So we offered to take her as far as we could.

We'd been making pretty good time... until traffic.  There was a car wreck and we got stuck in traffic for about an hour and a half.  Gross.  But we made it a little later than we'd anticipated and got her all packed up.  Then it was off to stay with Nick!

Oh, and apparently the shoulder is a completely usable lane for traffic in New Jersey.  Driving here is awesome.

More traffic.  Our hour and 45 minute trip to Nick turned into 3 hours.  Blarg.

But we made it.  And we went to dinner at Chili's when we arrived.  We all got hamburgers, then Nick wanted to hear all of the details about our trip.  So dinner was good and fun and all of that.

We got Jasmine checked into her room.  Then we just sat around and talked about all of the awesome and silly things we could conjure up.  Yeah, that's about it.  Back on the road in a little bit today!