Spring?

Come on now Spring...I know you want to come out. I realize that Winter is bullying you into postponing your warmth, but please, for the love of sunshine and flowers, hurry the f$#* up!

I spent a frosty, but beautiful, Saturday in Ithaca, NY with Josh. We drove up to hike in the gorges and see some waterfalls. Although the trails were technically closed, we got around the shoddy barrier fence and went through anyway. Amazing. We saw the falls as people rarely see them: covered in ice and snow. Just gorgeous...or should I say, gorg--ok I won't go there LOL. As we rounded a bend in the trail, however, we came across a dead deer. It looked like it lost it's footing or something and fell off the cliff; it hadn't been attacked or anything. But man, was that an upsetting thing to see. Not to mention shocking. It took me five full minutes to work up the courage to walk past it. And even then, I couldn't look at it, I had to hide behind Josh as we passed. And I was shaking for a good five minutes thereafter. So sad.

After that trail, we visited a few other waterfalls, one of the more spectacular being the Taughannock Falls. Just a huge, tall wall of water rushing down. Awesome. We were both remarking at the fact that even though both of us had visited Niagara Falls, this was still breathtaking. We drove along Cayuga Lake and visited a winery. Tasted some nice wines and bought a bottle of really sweet, but surprisingly tasty, dessert wine. I'm shocked that I actually liked it. It's especially good with chocolate ;-)

It's nice to get away...I think we've caught the bug. Well, we always had it (especially me), but now we're more into it...we're already looking up flights to Chicago LOL.