Days 12 to 16
Been delinquent on the blogging for the past few days.
Reporting in from Scranton, PA onroute to Philly. More incoherent than usual, seeing as it's 3 am.
Day 12. Northbrook, IL to Elk Grove Village, IL
Museum of Science and Industry. German U-boat. Hokey animatronics. Poor Daniel, I think he thought we were crazy. First home-cooked meal our whole trip (first Asian food too). Stayed at Blung's house. (Daniel and Bryan - Your parents are so nice...wow, thanks so much guys.)
Day 13. Elk Grove Village and downtown Chicago.
Woke up late. Mom cooked breakfast. Lunch at Joy Yee's in Chinatown. Figured out what Mickey and Daniel were raving about. Pretty good food, way too many choices, fresh fruit drinks, beautiful presentation. Dropped Bryan's HS friend off at the Art Institute and walked around Millenium Park. Really really awesome jellybean structure. (Pictures later at a more reasonable hour). Ted drove us through 2 hours of traffic. Chilled at Bryan's, did laundry (yay!) and watched "13 Conversations about One Thing" It was a pretty good movie, one of those discussion, thought-provoking indie films.
Day 14: Elk Grove to Chagrin Falls, OH
Woke up late, again. Said our farewells to Bryan (sad...) and headed out toward the Cleveland area, where Howie's aunt lives. Sat in 2 hours of noon-time downtown Chicago traffic (???). Drove through an enormous rainstorm and finally arrived around 8 pm.
Day 15: Chagrin Falls, OH to Grand Island, NY
Left late, again (it was really nice to get breakfast each of these "late" days...we just took longer to get on the road). Weather was clearing up for a day in Niagara Falls. Stopped for a couple hours to swim in Lake Erie. We swam in one of the Great Lakes! Neat! The boys didn't wnat to get in the water at first. Howie: Ahh!! Ahhh!! Cold! It's lakewater! Ted: I don't have clothes! I don't want to go in!! Lots of wrestling and splashing. The bottom of the lake is sandy! I was expecting it to be rocky.
Got in about 10-ish to a KOA campground on Grand Island (about 5 miles away from Niagara Falls). They had hot showers and they were showing Madagascar on a big screen. Ted remarked that it felt like a summer retreat, not a campground.
Day 16: Grand Island, NY to Scranton, PA
Got up early (8:30 am) to head to Niagara Falls. Got really soaking wet, not once, but twice. It was awesome. Everyone was prepared with our synthetic clothing today. The park gave everyone plastic ponchos, but we decided it was more fun to do things without it. Went on a boat ride around the Lower Gorge (Maid of the Mist). Then took a hike around the bottom of Bridal Veil Falls, definitely got drenched by the falls.
Walked over to Canada. View of the falls is far superior. Managed to get through and back, even though I forgot to bring my passport. Contingency plan if not: "Bye Lisa, have a nice life in Canada" (thanks, guys).
Drove a lot late at night and arrived here about 2 am. Howie's a trooper for driving the last 2 or 3 hours with Ted and I completely asleep.
Bedtime now. 3:30 am. Expecting to be in NYC tomorrow. =)
Reporting in from Scranton, PA onroute to Philly. More incoherent than usual, seeing as it's 3 am.
Day 12. Northbrook, IL to Elk Grove Village, IL
Museum of Science and Industry. German U-boat. Hokey animatronics. Poor Daniel, I think he thought we were crazy. First home-cooked meal our whole trip (first Asian food too). Stayed at Blung's house. (Daniel and Bryan - Your parents are so nice...wow, thanks so much guys.)
Day 13. Elk Grove Village and downtown Chicago.
Woke up late. Mom cooked breakfast. Lunch at Joy Yee's in Chinatown. Figured out what Mickey and Daniel were raving about. Pretty good food, way too many choices, fresh fruit drinks, beautiful presentation. Dropped Bryan's HS friend off at the Art Institute and walked around Millenium Park. Really really awesome jellybean structure. (Pictures later at a more reasonable hour). Ted drove us through 2 hours of traffic. Chilled at Bryan's, did laundry (yay!) and watched "13 Conversations about One Thing" It was a pretty good movie, one of those discussion, thought-provoking indie films.
Day 14: Elk Grove to Chagrin Falls, OH
Woke up late, again. Said our farewells to Bryan (sad...) and headed out toward the Cleveland area, where Howie's aunt lives. Sat in 2 hours of noon-time downtown Chicago traffic (???). Drove through an enormous rainstorm and finally arrived around 8 pm.
Day 15: Chagrin Falls, OH to Grand Island, NY
Left late, again (it was really nice to get breakfast each of these "late" days...we just took longer to get on the road). Weather was clearing up for a day in Niagara Falls. Stopped for a couple hours to swim in Lake Erie. We swam in one of the Great Lakes! Neat! The boys didn't wnat to get in the water at first. Howie: Ahh!! Ahhh!! Cold! It's lakewater! Ted: I don't have clothes! I don't want to go in!! Lots of wrestling and splashing. The bottom of the lake is sandy! I was expecting it to be rocky.
Got in about 10-ish to a KOA campground on Grand Island (about 5 miles away from Niagara Falls). They had hot showers and they were showing Madagascar on a big screen. Ted remarked that it felt like a summer retreat, not a campground.
Day 16: Grand Island, NY to Scranton, PA
Got up early (8:30 am) to head to Niagara Falls. Got really soaking wet, not once, but twice. It was awesome. Everyone was prepared with our synthetic clothing today. The park gave everyone plastic ponchos, but we decided it was more fun to do things without it. Went on a boat ride around the Lower Gorge (Maid of the Mist). Then took a hike around the bottom of Bridal Veil Falls, definitely got drenched by the falls.
Walked over to Canada. View of the falls is far superior. Managed to get through and back, even though I forgot to bring my passport. Contingency plan if not: "Bye Lisa, have a nice life in Canada" (thanks, guys).
Drove a lot late at night and arrived here about 2 am. Howie's a trooper for driving the last 2 or 3 hours with Ted and I completely asleep.
Bedtime now. 3:30 am. Expecting to be in NYC tomorrow. =)
posted by Lisa | 12:07 AM
2 Comments:
have fun in NYC- howie's home turf. Send more pictures, and hope you all have a lot of fun.
I ate at Joy Yee's too! It was on my cross-country road trip (in the other direction) and I stayed with friends in Chicago too! It was great. We went there and after pondering the menu (yes, with too many choices), we all decided to get something served in an interesting way. One of us got something served in a log, one in a boat, one in a pail, and one in a half pineapple. Mine was the pineapple. As they arrived at the table it was so fun. Ooh, the log! The boat! The pail! And ... what the ... A PLAIN CHINESE RESTAURANT PLASTIC BOWL?!?! WHERE IS MY PINEAPPLE?!?! BOOOOOOOOOO!!!! That was a very disappointing moment for me.
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