No not Essendon v Collingwood at the G. And not even chocolates. Or not even an enormously significant date in the Christian calendar. It is all of those, but it also means a 4 day break for most schoolteachers and luckily for the schoolteacher and that guy who just won't go away it means more time to travel.
But first there was the small matter of the Muskoka Beechgrove Public School production of Cinderella Kids. Now with Mrs Frost's expertise, was she playing the piano or coaching the choir or doing crowd control. NO WAY!!! So what was she doing? She was listed as a Sound Technition but to me that was a Roadie.
If I had that position I would have had got a few (fake) tatts, wouldn't have washed for a week, put a packet of smokes in each sleeve a lit one in my mouth, worn all black and done the job properly!!!But in all honesty the people who put the show together and all the actors were fabulous. And you've gotta love the coach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With Cinderella living "happily ever after" and stepfamily sorted out we lept aboard the CuRVy and headed south towards the United States border. Our friends Francesca and Ken had offered us the chance to sttay at their place that is only 40 minutes from the border which was very generous, however it did mean that we were driving until 11pm. Wasn't helped by us writing out the wrong number in their address but with quick call after we recharged we were safely in bed by 11.30pm.
Up at 5.45 and got to the border by 6am and then the fun began and everything slowed down. To say the system is slow is an understatement but after waiting an hour and grumbling (under our breath) we were safely on our way after only being there an hour!!!
After we had our fun at the border we headed into Lewiston New York and filled the CuRVy with go juice (petrol, gas) and filled us with food and coffee and headed off on roads less travelled (i.e. no main highways) and had the opportunity to see some wonderful houses in what appeared to be affluent areas.
On the way we managed to cross the Erie Canal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hvomfb1SJ8
It was interesting. The closer you got to the centre of the town the better the housing was and it didn't take too long to find something like this. But I am sure that is more due to the change from a farming based community. This is something you see in Australia where small towns and viable farmland is becoming less secure. That's enough of the philosophy. We travelled further towards our destination for the night, Ithaca which is the home of among other things Cornell University. On our way we went through many beautiful towns including Geneva which has a stunning set of buildings that in the most part are single family residences.
And then we started to pass signs that forced us to go to http://www.senecalakewine.com/jc/ Oh well it had to happen and it had been a while since we had tasted any wine so it was necessary to find ourselves in places like this
Of course the wine was very good and of course we did have to buy a couple of bottles which was fairly normal. You may be able to see in the second photograph we were looking over Seneca Lake which is the deepest of the five Finger Lakes. And you may also see I was able to wear my hat of choice. Go Saints Go!!!From there it was into Ithaca http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca,_New_York our destination for the night.
Dinner was at http://www.moosewoodrestaurant.com/
Wow what a restuarant! No bookings allowed full of happy people every night and up to 30 people prepared to wait!!!
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