Weekend Upstate and Up North

This past weekend was a blast, despite travel delays at the tail end that almost entirely ruined my good mood. I won't dwell on the gory details of what happened with the travel delays, but I'll just say that sitting in the Buffalo airport for a 4 and a half hour delay was no fun.

I flew in Friday noontime, and me and my 2 closest friends there ate out at a Japanese Place we always would go to before. I'm still amazed at what the same amount of money could buy you for lunch there! We also watched the Batman Dark Knight movie... which was amazing. If you haven't seen it yet, you better schedule some time in the near future!

On Saturday, me and my friends went up to Toronto. It's an amazing city, and if it were in the USA, it might just be my city of choice to stay. Not as huge as New York City, but almost just as busy and lively. I also got a sense that the diversity there is more like a true melting pot, rather than a smorgasbord like New York.

Sunday was a pretty slow day. I just had mass in the morning in UB, back at the old mass I used to attend regularly as a student. The homily was really good in a mass that could be hit-or-miss. Then I had brunch at IHOP with my friends. In many ways, I miss how simple and fun brunch could be in a non-sophisticated atmosphere (read: IHOP, Friendly's, some random diner) rather than the dress-to-kill brunch-cocktail menus more typical of New York City.

But at the end of the day (a VERY LONG day), I got back home and have no regrets about my location or work arrangements, even if others find it really weird or even incomprehensible.