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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Cuse beats South Florida!

I'd be remiss not to note this- Syracuse beat the Bulls of South Florida today, on the road baby!

Cuse is 4-1 for the first time in a long time.

Go Cuse!

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Took a tiny road trip today to Lake Placid-

When we got there I wondered why.

Octoberfest at Whiteface, and Buy 1 get 2 free sales at Bass Shoes. I'm not much of a claustrophobe, but I like my space, hell, that's why I live in the sticks. So, what was I doing here with all these tourists?

First, it'd been a while since the better half and I had gone on a day trip, and Placid is close. Somehow I'd forgotten about the zillion tourists that come here and drive our economy (and please don't stop coming).

So we see a sign at the Bass Outlet, Buy One-Get Two Free (shoes and boots), needless to say we were going there.
We were THERE!

Parking in Lake Placid sucks bigtime, but we managed to find a spot in the Municipal lot just behind the lot where the Blue Mt. Museum was going to build a branch, for lack of a better word. Economic downturn killed that idea. Now it's just another eyesore, where there used to be a nice little church, but I digress.....

On the bright side, you can use your debit card to buy your parking ticket. $1.00 an hour and you get to drop a bunch of money downtown-beautiful! So you pay to shop-gotta love it!

We went shoppin' and the better half scored 3 pairs of boots at a decent price. Me, I just dodged tourists, left and right.....

So finally we decided to grab some lunch, and what better place than Lisa G's. Heading out of Placid towards the Horseshow grounds and Ski Jumps, it's right at the bottom of the hill.

We've been going there for the better part of the last 10 years and have enjoyed it every single time.

Here's some pics from Lisa's....

Evidently there's some Steeler's fans there.

The back deck and patio is awesome. After we ate, we spent around an hour just basking in the sun.

It had warmed up enough to hang out, and hang out we did.....

So it's October 3rd in the Adirondacks, but check out these flowers that were still in bloom on their patio.\

Alexis, I believe.........

You think Georgia O'Keefe would like that one?

Oh, back to lunch-the better half had an Oriental Salad and I had a sliced prime rib sammy on a toasted baguette. They bring out a toasted baguette and real butter for an app if you didn't order one. The food was superb, as always. The wait staff was professional and courteous. I give Lisa G's the highest rating Tupper Cooks gives- ummm that'd be (wait I trying to come up with a rating system) 5 Tuppers! There, I did it. I'll have to explain the rating system later, but 5 is the highest one can achieve.

I did go a little camera crazy- but once again, the flowers and surrounding plants that were still looking fresh in October, blew me away.