Lake Placid

I know I'm waaaaaaaaaaay back-logged on my story line-type blog posts. It's just so much easier to write the one-picture short kind.

This post is the story of Nathan's and my trip to Lake Placid in March, about three days before he deployed. We had originally planned to take a four-day weekend and go on a real trip somewhere, but then on Friday before he ended up leaving on Thursday, he came home from work and told me he just found out he had only six days instead of three weeks before D-day. (I think of his deployment date as D-day. Weird?) We had time to take one overnight trip at that point.

Now about Lake Placid...it's this world-famous skiing town from the 198*mumblemumble* Olympic games. Yeah, I'm a big history buff. Get over it. This was the Miracle on Ice Olympics. Does that help?... So Lake Placid is this skiing town, or in warm months it's great for water sports. When we went, it was about 35 degrees and raining. Bad for skiing, very bad for water sports. We pretty much just walked around the town. Here's the story in pictures.

This should have been my first clue that Nathan's GPS *might* have taken us a bit off track...

It's a little hard to see, but this section of roads is riddled with pot holes and is covered in dirt from water running over it. I couldn't have been happier to finally get back on a real highway. Also, notice the 90-degree curve in the road.

We stayed at a Courtyard Marriott. Not the cushiest of hotels, but when they heard why we were coming, they gave us the nicest room in the hotel. Our room had both a fireplace...

AND a jacuzzi. It was nice :-)

We ate at this little restaurant called Jimmy's 21 overlooking the lake. Since we went a little early and it was something like a Tuesday night, we got the best table closest to the lake.

This is the view looking out over the frozen lake into bad bad weather rolling in. Only, the entire town (including that cute little strip of shops) isn't actually built on Lake Placid. It's built on Mirror Lake.

THIS is Lake Placid...

There wasn't much actually ON Lake Placid except houses and this public boat launch. Well, there was this cute little couple, too. They didn't seem afraid of us at all.

I can't even imagine swimming in that water. My fingers were going numb just taking pictures.

That's pretty much the end. We spent a lot of time in shops and in restaurants, but there wasn't a lot to take pictures of there. We couldn't take pictures of the Olympic village, because it has been turned into a prison since the Olympics. It was too cold to walk around the area where hockey was played, too. Maybe we should go back when the weather is better :-)