we hung out at helen's place until about noon, at which time we said bye to her cool mom and drove around town. helen thought it would be really interesting to show us all the houses in town she had lived in. uh huh.

we dropped helen off at a friend's place and went south to visit my sister.

jenny's doing really well. her studio apartment is nice but small. we drove to pick up her boyfriend, jake, and went into new brunswick for some thai lunch.

the food wasn't very good, but meeting jake was cool. he's a fun guy. (abie would later comment "my favorite thing about jake is that his nose moves when he talks." i didn't notice...). it was a quick visit, and then abie and i had to disappear.

we started in new brunswick, new jersey, at 3:30pm...

...and stopped in chicago, illinois, at 4:30am.

a long, long, long drive. abie had to drive through about and hour of really thick rain, which sucked. throughout ohio, there was a dense fog that limited my visiblity to about 30 meters. yuck. other than that, the drive was uneventful. i'm going to have a sore ass tomorrow.

it was 3:30am chicago time when we walked into abie's house. we woke up his parents, had a short welcome, and then we all went to bed, exhausted.