the trip up north

• funniest quote (go ahead: take it out of context) - "Don't put your finger there when I get off!"
• number of people who told me I look "just like" my mom - 4
• best [restaurant] meal - Bruschetta, followed by a house salad (OMG fantastic dressing!), baked mostaciolli with garlic breadsticks, and a ridiculously strong Blue Frog, here. My companions had chicken carbonara and the "'butcher's secret' sirloin".
• number of people who told me I look "just like" my dad - 2
• once I have shotglasses from the following states, I will stop collecting -
Connecticut
Delaware
Montana
New Hampshire
Vermont• average times per day that my mom used the words "S@r@h P@l!n", "J0hn McC@!n", or "asshole" - 333
• best television experience - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. I'd never seen it before, and I loved it. "You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man." And I'd never seen a Spencer Tracy film before. Wow.
• total money spent at the casino - $60
• total estimated time spent inside the casino - 10 minutes
total estimated travel time on the casino run - 1 hour 38 minutes (total estimated distance - 73.19 miles)
• best fall colors on the trip (I realize that this is totally subjective, but I've been around the "fall colors" block several times and could probably be considered something of an expert) - Castle Rock
• containers of cereal purchased by me or on my behalf - 13
• best food item consumed - peach pie (2 pieces over 2 consecutive nights)