slumber party II

a bunch of us went to visit lyris in rochester this past weekend and all seven of us squished into her bachelor apartment to spend the night. we left early saturday morning, driving the 3 hours or so to rochester, with an unnecessarily lengthy stopover at a niagara falls denny's (a different one from the OOX trip!) due to exceptionally slow service. kelvin was our driver, and karen, who was supposed to be our navigator ended up dozing off, so we named her the napigator. anyway, once we got there we did a gazillion things: lyris showed us the university of rochester, we walked along the erie canal, almost watched a college football game, went bath & body works shopping, had mediterranean food, walked along a different part of the erie canal, saw (heard?) the rochester philharmonic orchestra and toured the eastman school of music, during which time lyris gave us a private concert. she's amazing on piano!! needless to say we were exhausted after day 1, so there was a lot of slumber at this slumber party. the next morning we wolfed down our breakfast of cup noodles and headed to the church that lyris attends. after the service, we went to the beach for a stroll along the boardwalk and took *s* club pictures of all of us jumping in the air. then we had savoury crepes for lunch, drove lyris back to her apartment and headed back to the ferry dock. we took the CAT back to toronto, which didn't save us any time or money and it was slightly nauseating during rough waters, but we got to play rummy and poker!