Dan and I went on a trip around the top of NY state and into Vermont. It was really fun. I stuffed in all my summer items that I had wanted to do since May. Here are the highlights and interesting lights of the trip:
Night 1- A nice dinner with Dan, Lita and Justin. We had just the right amount of food and almost no leftovers.
Day 2- At the Renaissance Fair, I got a sword, one wet hug, and Lita got to see a falconer. At the end of the day I was served pizza on a plate. By accident or design I was given a plate with the words “group shower after work” and a picture of three stick figures with lines above them. Nice.
We stayed in an unremarkable yet totally acceptable Watertown hotel.
Day 3-We traveled towards Plattsburgh slowly. We stopped at a mall that bore an uncanny resemblance to the Plattsburgh mall. We even joked that where the mall opened up to a larger section we would find a JCPenney and Gizmo*. To our surprize and delight, there was such a section with JCPenney and Gizmo.
Later we discovered a zoo that had cute wolf pups and a huge bear. Also we saw owls being fed whole dead chicks. I didn’t like the fire tower.
We ate dinner/lunch by a stream down the road from Stewarts.
Day 4-Got a nice tan** at Ausable Point beach. I got more water time than my sister.
We had dinner with Suzanne and Paul at the Naked Turtle restaurant. I miss them here in Albany.
Day 5- Morning with mom, then on the road again. We went on a Caves and Waterfalls tour of Ausable Chasm. (why doesn’t my family live in Ausable?) I should say it was more of a Cave and Waterfall tour, but I don’t really mind. We got to climb around on dangerous rocks and see an old power station. The title of my post is about this tour. We didn’t die.
The Port Kent ferry has a lovely little beach for my toes.
A nice dinner in Burlington and Ben and Jerry offers a free movie in the middle of Church St.- An American Tail. Vermont is so cool.
Day 6- I went swimming in the morning at our wierd hotel. I was the only one there. I didn’t drown.
Dan and I saw an aquarium that was more of an aquarium center. I stood in a hurricane simulator. It made my eyes feel wierd.
At lunch I had a turkey club with no bacon- that’s just a turkey, right?
We stopped to look at Teddy Bears, flowers, a mountain and a fair. We stayed so late we needed another hotel. The demolition derby rocks!
Day 7- Let’s go home I am so tired. We stopped for lunch in NY state at a place called Man from Kent. We like it, but I’m pretty sure that without the outdoor seating it’s just another towny bar.
Final notes: Dan grew a kick a$$ beard that he’s still working on.
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We finally found out what all those triangle purple things in the trees were. They are traps to catch Emerald Ash Borer bugs. They are an invasive species and the DEC is monitoring them to see how many are here. The one we saw up close had a TON of bugs stuck to it.
*Those who are not familiar with Gizmo: It is a large machine/art-work that delivers pool balls along a track which randomly splits into several paths and eventually converge again to start over. Along the way the balls encounter turns, jumps, and musical percussive elements which make it very amusing to watch and listen to.
**Ok it was more of a burn. Ouch!