May 22, 2007
Adirondack Adventure Day 1: Arriving
My trip to visit Erica started off with one of the nicest airport/airplane experiences I have ever had. First of all, I hardly had to wait at all. Jenn and I timed the airport drop off perfectly. I got through security and ten minutes later I boarded a plane to Detroit. This was may first experience at the Detroit Airport. I don't know about the rest of it, but the Northwest terminal is beautiful and shiny. A tram drives noiselessly by above you and they have lots of real restaurants. Even the McDonald's looks nice. But I didn't have much time to look around. My layover was less than an hour. Did I mention I had seats right up front? This made boarding and deplaning super convenient. Each leg of the flight was less than two hours. I finished my book, read some articles in the New Yorker, and played some Yoshi's Island to pass the time. And then I landed at the Albany airport in the midst of a very rainy afternoon. The weather was off and on all weekend.
Erica and I stopped in Sarasota Springs for lunch. I had a student last semester from that town, and I kept hoping I'd run into him because how random would that be. I didn't, though. Then we did a little shopping. No matter where you're at, it's always nice to stop at TJ Maxx because you never know what they will have. This time, I found a snappy new pair of brown Diesels for under $40. And I picked up some great tees at the Gap Outlet. Needless to say, I had to leave a bag of stuff for Erica to bring back to Lafayette when she drives home next week because I didn't have room in my suitcase.
Then she took me around Lake George Village, where you can see the southern tip of Lake George.
If the weather had been nice, and if it had been post-Memorial Day Weekend when, apparently, everything opens (and the weather gets nice), we could've taken a trip on this riverboat.
OR we could've played some mini-golf at the awesome Around the World minigolf course.
(The Paul Bunyan figure represents Canada, of course.)
So I came a week too early. I had better things to do than contend with Memorial Day Weekenders from the City or, worse, New Jersey. I had a pair of cats to see, and let me tell you, they did not disappoint. I never did get a picture of Rudolpho, but here's Molly:
She's pretty bookish. If it's not the encyclopedias, it's the Atlas.
Plus, we had to find out the answers to some very important questions, like who was America's Next Top Model, who got kicked off of American Idol, and of course, whose haircut was sheer genius. We also watched the Weather Channel quite a bit because we had big hiking plans for Thursday. Luckily, the weather was kind. But more of that later.
Posted by kea at May 22, 2007 01:58 AM