Where we’ve been…All 48 lower…Where we are…Extensively traveling…Working and having a blast!

Where we’ve been…All 48 lower…Where we are…Extensively traveling…Working and having a blast!
LIFE IS GRAND!

Friday, June 30, 2023

Adventures in Lake Placid

We finally realized by taking the slower roads less traveled that they all look the same due to the tree lined roads, so we will be taking the highways going forward with more scenic views.





Lake Placid is a quant little town with their focus on winter activities and since we won’t be here for that, we checked it out anyway. 





Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum was way too expensive for what little they had, even though it was very interesting. We received  the senior discount that gave us a much more reasonable amount of $24 for both.













We then went across the street to The Boat to do some local wine tastings. We ended up tasting several wines and decided on 2 bottles, will let you all know about them in the future when we drink them in a few months.








Checked into our hotel at the Crowne Plaza early so we could enjoy the hot tub and pool before the kids showed up and we were just leaving when that happened. The hot tub was the perfect temperature but it was the tiniest tub we have been in, the pool was cold but very refreshing. Our view was spectacular!








We were going to order from the restaurant in the hotel but lunch stopped at 4pm and the dinners did not look as good as the lunches did so we ordered pizza from a local shop, Main Street Pizza & Pasta. We both decided that New York style pizza is not our favorite, too thin of a crust. It was tasty and so was the Greek salad we ordered but we prefer deep dish, or at least thicker crust.







We will not be going anywhere these upcoming days since it’s 4th of July and we don’t get out amongst the crazies, we bought stuff to BBQ instead. Jerry has a new job, he will be shuttling guests to the tubing area to float back to the campground…the river is still frigid so we won’t be doing it any time soon, if at all.






Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Brennan Beach Campground

80 Brennan Beach

Pulaski, NY 13142

(315) 298-2242

June 2023

 


We paid $56 per night for a Deluxe Cabin using our ELS employee discounted rate. We chose this one due to its location ON Lake Ontario. The cabins were located on a bluff overlooking the lake and even though there were trees blocking most of our view, we were able to see a magnificent sunset. The cottonwood trees were in full bloom and we could have knitted a few dozen shirts with the cotton everywhere, and an antihistamine was needed.







The shower was amazingly refreshing, the bed was hard and hurt our bodies badly but the view and sounds of the waves were just what we needed.










 

 

Saturday, June 17, 2023

More Lake George Adventures

We are getting away on our days off enjoying the area and time is flying, it’s already mid June. 

We were told the busyness would start Memorial Weekend and continue for a few months. Different perspectives on what is busy since we have not seen busy but others feel it has been. We have so many people in our department that many of us are always looking for things to do and others just play on their phones. What some deem as busy, we feel it’s disorganization, NO communication, and everyone wants to be the boss which leaves not enough workers. Too many in some departments and not enough in others. In spite of it all, we are determined to make our best times out of this entire situation by doing us and giving our all to the customers and spending our time off enjoying the area.

 

One of our weekends we enjoyed The Mohican steamboat adventure. We just took the shortest trip they offered just to see how I would handle it and I was fine but no plans to take any longer one. We took lots of photos and even enjoyed a Sangria on the boat. 













We stayed at the Comfort Inn so we could enjoy a little hot tub and pool time. Since we couldn’t find a local restaurant open for lunch we used our Christmas gift card and ate at Applebees. The food was excellent.







Jerry hates clowns but after some pleading he sat next to the clown for a photo. All went well until I couldn’t resist to scream at him that the clown was alive…I sure wished I pushed the video start button sooner because I missed his reaction which was priceless. He really does hate clowns.



Our next week took us for some play and relax time at Saratoga Springs Resort & Casino. We played and left with more money than we came with and had a great time. The hotel was quant and they upgraded us to a suite that we fully enjoyed.






Our next adventure, we took a drive around Lake George, not too many areas to see great views, only lots of tree lined roads, something we are noticing more of on all our trips.







We stayed at The George NY in Lake George and had a marvelous time. The hot tub and pool were so much fun, Jerry even decided to take on the slide, but only once. I was able to capture him on video coming down. Check it out below…








NOT SURE IF IT EVER STOPS RAINING AROUND HERE!