Woodstock ..

This was a post I'd started (well uploaded photos for) about a week and a half ago (gotta upload when the uploading is good!). These are some shots of our afternoon in Woodstock, NY. Getting there from where we were staying in Elizaville, NY (really about 30 miles or so away) was quite a chore because the GPS (aka "smarty pants") got us totally lost and headed about 40 miles north of where we should have been before I figured out we were way off track!

I'm not sure what either of our expectations of Woodstock were but it wasn't what I thought for sure - I didn't expect the commercialism for starters. Plus it was rainy (of course) and not great weather so that didn't help much in a crowded crowded walking town. So, I guess the bottom line is ~ "been there, done that".

Above is Rick's Woodstock Town Hall shot and below, the Blues Brothers outside some (another) tee shirt store!

For whatever reason I've had a fascination with labyrinths for some time - I thought we should have made one at the house in Whitman after the pool came down - heck it was nearly made for us with the 30' perfect diameter already there!

Well along the way into Woodstock we passed a church (St. Gregory's) that I thought I saw a sign about a labyrinth, so when we left a couple hours later, we pulled in and there was in fact one there. As well as the labyrinth there was a gorgeous, peaceful garden you could go through to get to the labyrinth. As anyone who knows me realizes, the church aspect of all this is a bit over the edge for me in fact would make me run the other way, but the labyrinth well I just had to be there!

Rick sat it out in the car while I took a few minutes to enjoy. It was just beautiful. Why couldn't I ever design beautiful, peaceful places like this when we had a house?

Chad - how about one of the photos below that is a shot of the gate with the terrific angles, looking at the church with the same angles! Did Mom do alright? Critique it for me - please. Speaking of Chad, he and Amy will be homeowners on Thursday - after a long fought battle they are finally closing on a house in Abington.

Rick, Arlo and I arrived back in Plattsburgh late this afternoon after our whirlwind trip back to MA. We are leaving here tomorrow to head back to MA again - sort of heading backwards from our original "plan" (this maybe why we try NOT to make plans!?!?). We'll be there for at least a week - I have to have a "procedure" done on Friday and we will remain there at least until we get the results sometime next week. After which we will re-think our plans depending on those results.

In spite of all the chaos while we've been in Plattsburgh - two tows, broken laptops, awful campground we really enjoyed the area and would love to return (to a different campground) to RELAX and explore the area and enjoy the lake - this was obviously not the trip to do that.

Speaking of which I haven't done a post since our travel to the FMCA rally - the one that was scheduled for August 12-16. We got there around 11:00 on the 12th, paid our fee to get in and was told the vendors (the reason we were there) opened at 2:00. Well 2:00 came and there was NO activity around that "hall" so we inquired - OH NO the vendors don't open until the 13th! For heaven's sake why doesn't FMCA put this stuff on their website. We traveled miles to get there, paid for a ferry, burdened Elisha with Arlo ... UGH ... that was more of the Plattsburgh saga!

But like I said, we really liked the area and I'd love to return here - another time .... plus, my Elisha is here!!