Michigan

I just returned from a 5 day vacation in Traverse City, Michigan (the cherry capital of the world!), which is a beautiful town on Lake Michigan. I went to see my old roommate of 4 years, Lisa, her husband Scott, and their wicked smart 14-month-old baby boy Alexander. It was an awesome time which made me nostalgic for the old days living with one of my best friends. It was also an animal-heavy vacation, as Lisa has two cats and a dog, her mother, who lives nearby, has two Maltese, and her sister who was also visiting has an adorable but unfriendly and emotionally damaged Pekingese. It was like living in some kind of low-rent Animal Planet episode. This is par for the course with Lisa--when we lived together we had a small zoo (several pet rats, guinea pigs, a doberman, and a cat) squeezed into our small Lower East Side apartment. Ah, Good Times.

I notice that all of my trips lately center around visiting my friends with kids, including my upcoming trips to LA and London. Clearly, my biological clock is in a completely different time zone than the majority of my friends.