As I mentioned in a recent post, we're currently road tripping for a cousin's wedding and a conference.
On Sunday, a car show self-organized at the diner right next to our motel.
Not only that, but we really enjoyed the food (cheesesteaks!) and ice cream. As an extra bonus for Devon, the diner was also a PokeStop. :)
It was a wonderful wedding and though I didn't take many photos, I did snap a shot of the bonfire at the rehearsal dinner. I was quite proud of it because it had been raining the day before and this thing was a pain in the butt to get going.
Upstate New York is beautiful this time of year, and I got a lot of nice runs in to help strengthen my back. The views of the rolling hills and corn fields are just incredible. I wish I had some better photos, but I did snap this shot of a barn real quick on one of my runs:
We also had a really good time walking around Skaneateles and enjoying Doug's Fish Fry. If you're ever in that area, you have to stop in there. The water on the lake is so clear, it's hard to determine just how deep it is. My brother @christianstokes who flew in from California snapped this shot for us:
We had a really nice lunch there and (added bonus) it was right next to a Pokemon Go gym so my son got his first gym ever (after multiple tries). He was pretty excited.
The driving itself has been pretty easy going without too much drama. For the longer stretches, the kids watch a couple movies we loaded up on the old iPad (WALL-E and Zootopia).
The only drama we did run into was right after a heavy rain. Our little one "need-a-go-potty!" so we pulled off the freeway. After several minutes, we realized something was wrong because we weren't moving. Later we found out a semi had crushed a car. I'm not sure if the driver is okay because they took them to the hospital on a stretcher (sorry for the blurry picture, it was a software zoom from my phone):
We waited on that offramp for over an hour and a half. Thankfully, we had our little travel potty so my littlest one was able to go right there on the side of the road. As frustrating as it is to be stuck in the car going no where, it was an intense reminder things could be much, much worse.
Live life while you can. Go travel and treat every day like a gift because that's exactly what it is.
