Lake George, NY

We went there for a mini-4^th of July vacation and we had a really good time. Ray had been there before when he was a kid, so he must have had a nice feeling about bringing his own kids there now.


The lake is much bigger than I expected it to be, and it's really beautiful, as you can see from this picture:


We did have a rainy day, during which we went for a car ride around the lake that took the whole afternoon. We also found the time to capture a couple silly poses from the kids:



We went tubing down a river, which was my first time (we don't "tube" in Italy, and that's a shame), shopping downtown (where I found the most marvelous of treasures: a complete set of The Lord of the Rings chess pieces - I believe they're made of crushed marble, they're very big and detailed, and they carry the Tolkien Enterprises logo too - that now, naturally, belongs to me :-) ), mini-golfed, and on the last day, went to an amusement park.

We were super lucky there. It was very cloudy most of the afternoon, and we were there till it closed at 10 pm, walked all the way to the car, which was parked on the opposite end of the parking lot (figures), got in, closed the doors, started the car up, and it started raining. Phew!! It would have sucked to be on the rides under the rain.

All in all a very nice vacation. We should go somewhere again soon.