I apologize that it took 2 days to get this out, but we had a full day yesterday. Anyway, ON WITH THE SHOW!
So after our lovely little stay in Sunset Park about 25mi outside of Syracuse in Memphis, NY, we packed up our wet tent, our wet blankets and sleeping backs and our wet chairs and umbrellas and headed on into the 'Cuse.
Where we got lost. Repeatedly.
Yes, we had TWO GPS's, and there was really good signage, but for some reason or another, we just kept going round and round and round the same area of town. As with any other 'getting lost' kind of story, we weren't in the best part of town, but it wasn't especially scary because it was like 9:30am. We did get lots of interesting looks from the people we passed on the street. My guess is that they don't see many green Subaru Wagons around there.
It probably didn't help that we were either arguing excitedly (it's how we roll) or laughing hysterically (also how we roll).
Anyway, with some luck we found a nice little diner, GEM read the sign: where the eggs were perfectly poached, the hollandaise sauce was grainy, the home fries had no taste and the pineapple pancakes were pretty good. And we hadn't had warm food in 2 days, so it was a real treat. Funny thing: the parking lot was PACKED. I think it might have some kind of specialty, but we didn't know what it was and since we were the LEAST manicured people there, I don't think they wanted us hanging around. Who really knows.
Anyway, then it was time for the Rosamond Gifford Zoo which was a great time, worth the $ and got lots and lots of "Hiiiii Keeeteeee"s from Mira. Oh, yes and there were also "Hi KeeeKAT!"s, which is new, so we'll see.
The elephant was by far her favorite, she stared in awe at a creature so big and awesome. We didn't get to see the tiger, he was passed out and panting way down his hill - not accepting visitors. We did see the lions and the monkeys who put on quite a nice show right at the end of our visit. And I got to see a peacock completely feathered out for the first time. True, he kept his back to us the entire time, but I'd say it still counts.
So we left the zoo in search of a WalMart via GPS and we STILL got lost again! This was only momentary though and soon we saw across the underside of an overpass "NOTHING TO DO HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH YOU" and on the other side the four seasons with various adjectives, the only two of which I can remember are "FALL LEAVES WINTER LONGS"
I found a little more out about that here:
http://www.9wsyr.com/news/local/story/A-Love-Letter-to-Syracuse-artist-paints-downtown/7zWcfS5lJkelY4UqqMAx-A.cspx
Pretty cool. I love art, but art for the masses AND their brains is the BEST!
So on the way to WalMart, we throw Brendan's shoes in the garbage because between never drying out from camping and then walking around the hot zoo all day, the smell like a dead animal and they need to be thrown away. Not two minutes after discussing a plan of action for me to go in, get Brendan a pair of shoes, bring them out and then we can all go into Wal Mart... MY SHOES BREAK! Okay, well, one shoe, but still, the signs don't say "No shoes No service, but One shoe is Okay". Now we needed a new plan of action. Which in the end included minor flip flop surgery, gorilla glue and running added to the first plan. Except I can't run, so the plan was amended in action.
In the end, we all got new shoes (Mira's were also soaked) and air conditioned relief from the heat and we left WalMart refreshed for the remaining 2 and a half hour drive home. Except it was longer than that because we stopped and ate lunch at the Cazenovia waterfront stop along the way.
Home again Home again, jiggity jig.
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