Today I woke up, and it was gorgeous outside. I decided I needed to have ice cream before Ithaca turns into a frozen tundra. Having heard good things about Cayuga Creamery, I dragged two of my friends there with me. I got a scoop of purple cow in a waffle cone. They watched me eat it.
The ice cream was indeed delicious, but the trip was marred by an unfortunate incident involving a ladybug. As I was waiting in line, a ladybug landed on my face, and I instinctively swatted at it. It didn’t survive. It did, however, leave an orange liquid smeared across my face and hand, as well as a rather grassy smell.
On the way back to Ithaca, we decided to stop by Taughannock Falls State Park because it was so nice outside. We spent a while playing on the playground and chasing seagulls because what else would a bunch of fully-grown college students do. Then we went to find the waterfall. There was a fork in a road. We had two options: the lower path where all the people were or the steep lifeless stairs. We took the path less traveled. It was a mistake. After hiking for what felt like hours, we could hear water falling, but we could see absolutely nothing through the trees. At this point we felt rather lost and were convinced we would never find the waterfall. After consulting Google maps, we decided to continue walking until we reached the other side of the gorge, where we were finally rewarded with the view we were looking for.
Note to self: always take the North Rim Trail. Don’t bother with the south.
After making it back to the car we thought we might never see again, we were pretty hungry, so we stopped at Glenwood Pines and ate delicious burgers.
You know it’s a good burger when most of it is smeared all over your face and hands. Bonus points if the juices are dripping down your forearms. All in all I’d say it was a pretty good day.
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