YES, FINALLY! I am putting out my half of the trip, now that it's been about a week and my dad has already stolen all the glory of it with pictures and witty remarks. Ah well, I'll certainly try to redeem myself! I'm going to break these posts up into pretty short things with a few pictures each, and try to summarize the awesome trip as best I can. Before our trip even began, my dad and I had to get up early to bring my dog over to my friend's house. She had agreed to watch him while we were gone. The thing about leaving him with her was, that she had two cats and Lucky had never been around cats before. Within 10 minutes of being home, I had my first update on my dog- he wasn't exactly "getting along" with the cats: In any case, there wasn't much to be done about things now- we were set to leave by car at about 9:00. The car (or should I say bus) arrived on time and within an hour of pick-up we were in Boston at our first train station of the trip. The first leg of the trip took us on a ride from Boston to Albany. The train wasn't a sleeper train, and the ride in and of itself was long and boring. To entertain myself, I wound up using snapchat filters on my family and turned out with some amusing results such as the photos above. We finally got into Albany, though, and this is where our trip truly began in my eyes. Little did we know, this was the last part of the vacation that would be as on-time as we predicted. Since the train from Albany was only taking us to Chicago; we had to make one more stop and board one more train before embarking on the last leg of the trip. Since it was a day trip; we had sleepers on the Albany - Chicago train. The rooms were a LOT smaller than I had predicted; and in the beginning I was quite claustrophobic. When we finally did leave our rooms to get food in the dining car, I was met with even further disappointment at the bare choice on the menu. I can't say much about the dish I got on this train... it was my fault for going with noodles in alfredo sauce and not steak. I will say that the meal itself tasted like bile. Don't worry- things got better after this. The train got better after dinner ended. I wound up making a blanket fort for myself on the bottom bunk in our traincar (I was rooming with my dad) and since the train had good wifi, I wound up falling asleep at 2am after a long talk with my boyfriend (mainly surrounding the small living areas and shitty food).
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