We arrived at Lake Placid on Tuesday afternoon and settled in for a comfortable evening. On Wednesday we drove over to and around the town of Saranac Lake and visited the Olympic venues back in Lake Placid. We climbed up next to the bobsled track and watched luge practice runs. We came back to
Trip Log
January 5, 2009
Yesterday afternoon we arrived in Montreal and spent the rest of the day watching football and especially enjoyed the Eagles game. The night before we left Sugarloaf, we had had a problem with the diesel in our truck gelling (freezing) and stalling the truck every mile on the way to a dinner but
January 1, 2009
We left home on Tuesday morning and arrived at Sugarloaf that afternoon and are staying with Steve & Laura at their condo. On Wednesday Steve went skiing early while Alesa & Laura went to the fitness center. It was too icy to ski so Steve and I walked around the village. That evening w
December 25, 2008
Last night was another wonderful Christmas Eve with family, friends, gifts, food and fun. We had a pinata for the kids with candy, coins, toys and "nana-papa bucks" to be used to buy something they wanted but didn't get for Christmas. Alesa, of course, made sure we had way too much excellent fo
December 22, 2008
We left Lakeland at noon yesterday, visited Alesa's dad's memorial and arrived back home at 4 AM this morning. It was a long day, especially for being the shortest day of the year. It was a good drive with great weather and little or no traffic. Mike and family left after we did and arrived ho
December 15, 2008
Today is Alesa's 60th and we are in Naples, Florida. We left home at 4AM on the 9th and arrived in Brunswick, GA at 4PM that same day. We spent the night there and then visited Pruners in Jacksonville in the morning and with Betsey Fales in Ormond Beach in the afternoon and then spent the next
November 30, 2008
Bailey’s birthday is not until December 8th but he chose this weekend because he has no school on Monday and will have some recovery
November 27, 2008
Today we had a Thanksgiving eve. We thought we would try to have our Thanksgiving dinner the night before to give the kids and thei
November 21, 2008
Today we woke up to snow on the ground and ended up with 4 inches by the time it stopped later in the morning. We continue to work out at Gold's Gym nearly every day and are getting ready for Thanksgiving. The boys and their families will be over on Thanksgiving Eve. Alesa is finishing knittin
November 17, 2008
Last week Nana set up the Christmas trees because we will be gone most of the time between now and Christmas. We put the kids' Christmas tree in the front window and decorated both trees with the Mardi Gras beads from earlier this year. Today we went over to Mike's for Lisa's birthday and Nana