We're back from a Thanksgiving mini-vacation to Indiana. No, not that Indiana; the one in Pennsylvania. We went to visit Laura and Thomas, our first time to see them in their new house. We left as soon as I got out of work Wednesday, which meant we were driving late into the night. It gets dark early this time of year so it makes you feel like the drive lasts all night long. Our GPS also must have been looking for the shortest trip in terms of miles, because it took us through some of the sketchiest parts of Youngstown, well off the highways, and straight on through the middle of nowhere for miles and miles, where it's not easy to find a gas station open late. But we got there around midnight, and had a very nice Thanksgiving dinner the next day. Black Friday was different: we went out for breakfast at Eat 'n Park and got to talking about the IKEA furniture they had bought recently. Thomas had a desk in mind that he wanted to get but they didn't have a way to get it from Pittsburgh to Indiana. Which gave us the idea, since we had a pickup truck right there, to go to IKEA. We left from the restaurant to go to Pittsburgh. Unfortunately Laura gave us the wrong mall that it was near, and since we were driving separately we wound up miles apart by the time we both got to the city. Eventually we did make it. We bought a large storage unit (5x5) for the downstairs with a bunch of bins that go with it and spent over $300 bucks. Thomas bought a bunch of stuff, and we loaded the back of the truck full up. Pizza Hut after we got back to Indiana. The rest of the time we played a lot of Wizard and Apples to Apples, we got to see Laura's office, and I went for a run because I wanted to do a run in Indiana. We headed out late this morning, and had an uneventful drive back...except for getting onto US 30 headed the wrong direction in Mansfield Ohio...and driving maybe 30 miles the wrong way. It's a funny interchange, easy to do. West goes left and east goes right, totally backwards.