Vacation Day Three

Saturday morning we were up before the alarm went off. The hotel didn't include breakfast and their in-room options were ridiculously expensive so we skipped those. We packed up and headed out around 7:30. It was very foggy. We ate our leftover sandwiches for breakfast as we wound up and down and around the hills and curves of Pennsylvania's roads. We were annoyed by some State College yahoos for quite a bit of the morning (hello - it's called "cruise control") but managed to make pretty good time up to Jamestown. We made a stop at a convenience store just before the state line and we both commented on the strangeness of tanning beds at a gas station.

We arrived at my mom's house with no problem. Although we did drive past it the first time. We checked the place out and then headed to The Home Depot for faucet parts. When we returned my mom made lunch for me and herself while Adam went to work. Then the day turned into somewhat of a comedy of errors.

First, Adam's pipe cutter broke. So we went to a nearby (although not the closest) True Value to replace it. When he got the pipes cut he realized the compression fittings and flexible tubes he bought were different sizes. We had originally been trying to get shut-offs but couldn't find the right size. Somewhere along the line we switched hoses and forgot to switch them back after abandoning the shut-off idea. Whoops. So Adam ran back to the True Value to get the right size hoses. He got back and then realized he had gotten FIP to FIP instead of compression to FIP. So my mom and I went back to the True Value again to get the right ones. But they didn't have the right ones. So we got some different compression fittings instead hoping that they'd fit with the hoses we already had. When we returned we found that the pipe end of the new compression fittings were too big even though I had questioned the guy at True Value and he assured me they were ok. *deep breath* So Adam and I went back to The Home Depot to return the wrong hoses and get the right ones. Finally Adam was able to get everything hooked up. We turned the water back on and immediately water began spraying all over underneath the sink. In addition, water had been leaking into the basement this whole time. After some tinkering he discovered the sprayer was loose and once that was fixed everything was as it should be.

So, it took a whole lot longer than it should have, but eventually the leaky faucet was replaced. Whew.

After all of this we were all hot and sweaty. In an effort to find some place cool to hang out (for free) we went to the Ice Arena across the street from our hotel (a Best Western this time. We were originally going to stay with my mom, but the area was having a heat wave and she doesn't have A/C.) There were figure skaters competing or qualifying for something. We watched a few and then Adam got bored. We walked over to the Cherry Lounge for dinner. I had some chicken noodle soup and a chicken salad pita and Adam had a gyro sandwich. Once again we managed to be in the area when the Bills had a pre-season game. After dinner we went back to my mom's house, picked up the stuff we had left there before, had some cake



and called it a night. We watched some football and then went to bed.