The RanDoM happenings of us: Our NY vacation -- On to Indian Lake, NY

So we headed off from Niagara Falls and went to the Adirondack Mountains...Indian Lake, NY. Here we stayed at family's house. Here are Paul and Shirley, with whom we stayed. On the way to their house though we came across this great pizza place and bar found in Poland, NY. It is such a small town and it was such a great place I wanted to mention it. Here is where you can find out more about it (apparently it is the "nightclub" of Poland, NY). Anyway, I had to put a note about it.

Jason's cousin, Sam, works at Adventure Sports as a white water rafting guide. So, he was able to get Jason, John and I on an all day white water rafting trip that starts on the Hudson River and then continues on to Indian River. This was John's first rafting trip, and he did a great job. We weren't sure if we were going so we forgot to bring our camera with us. Here is a picture of some other people on the same river. But, you get the exciting ride we had! It was a great thing to experience with John and we were so proud of him for doing it. He was paddling along with everyone else during the rapids, he loved jumping out and swimming at all the slow parts and he even jumped off a 14 foot rock into the river during one of those parts. He didn't want to at first, but he got over his fear and did it. It was great!

We stayed in Paul and Shirley's extra house out in the woods. The first night Paul was so excited telling them of the bears that were in the woods around the house and he threw out cookies to get the bears to come so the kids could see them in the middle of the night. And then let them know that they had recently found a lot of mice were running around Campo (their camp) at night. So below is a picture of how I slept for the next two nights. John and Jason took the bed in the other room. It was a very bonding experience! 8-)

Love, pure love.

Just to let you know, we never saw mice (although there were lots of traps out) and we never encountered a bear (I think it was because we left the security light on all night). But, at least they felt safe! 8-) I was tired, but they felt loved...that is all that matters, right??? 8-) Here is a picture of the beautiful house, that they have built themselves. It is amazing all the work they have done on it, and it was a blessing for us to be able to stay there and they had breakfast food waiting for us so we didn't have to rush back to their main house (16 miles away). We were very thankful.

They also had raspberry bushes and black berry bushes around their house that we got to pick. Then Shirley made a great berry pie from all of our pickings. Yum!

Here is a closer look at those yummy berries!

This is Peppy, their dog...that Emily LOVED!!! We couldn't get her away from him.

The mountain that Jason use to climb up when he was a kid was Chimney Mountain. So, we took the kids there to climb it too!

The kids did a great job! No complaining...we were amazed!!! John even volunteered to take the bag (that held lunch and water) for me. What a gentleman! If you notice, Karli...yes, Karli, is the one leading the pack. She made sure the whole time that she was the one leading everyone. She would get so frustrated if she couldn't be the on in charge. And boy was she a trooper...she amazed everyone on the trail that day.

Our view from the top! There were lots of little caves and stuff to go through. We didn't even do all the caves Jason did when he was younger, but we will have to make a return trip to finish those.