Five things in CNY that I've missed (alphabetically):

- family
- Lake Ontario
- old friends
- Saranac Root Beer
- spots that I grew up skating which, at the time, weren't very good, and have gotten worse. Still, I love them

Errata: While home I sampled Ithaca Brewing Company Root Beer. From a bottle it is at least as good as Saranac, but I've not found it from a tap. Saranac from a tap is the current best possible root beer experience, though not the absolute best root beer experience. That honor still belongs to the Empire Brewing Company's root beer on tap and brewed on site until their Syracuse location closed in 2002 or 2003. The Empire Brewing Company has since reopened but they no longer brew root beer.