Day Two
Good morning Moo Moo!
Second day, I woke up feeling dead. The previous night's sleep was terrible with the air con whirring in the background, the crappy fold up bed that dipped in the middle, the constant tugging of the blanket on both sides of me and the cold of the night. Seems that everyone else in the family had a good night's sleep except me. =( So understandably, I was not all too keen about hopping in and out of the car every 10 minutes to look at sights.
Today's first stop was Letchworth State Park, which according to one of my parent's tour guide friends, is much more worth seeing than Watkins Glen. Oh course I wouldn't believe...Watkins Glen was unbelievably beautiful. Well I wasn't totally right on that... This park was nice too but I guess just a different kind of nice.
The giant concrete dam separating the part of the river that is dried up and the part that still has water
Here we saw a giant canyon (it's even called the "grand canyon of the east") that used to have a river running down the middle. It has since mysteriously dried up and we never did find out why because WE NEVER MADE IT TO THE VISITOR'S CENTER!!! So now there's just a huge dam there with only water on one side of it. It was a very hot day so after stopping the car for about the tenth time we decided to call it quits and head off to grab some disgusting American style Mickey D's. Granted that the one good thing about it was their one-dollar menu featuring Jr. Big Macs...how interesting. =)
Me on the ledge with the canyon in the background
Crazy water fountain
Girls washing their hair in the river
On the way home, we stopped in at Buffalo to dine on authentic Buffalo chicken wings at a place where I remember eating every time we went to the falls when my brother and I were kids. The place is called Frank and Teressa's Anchor Bar, which is where the legend of Buffalo chicken wings began. One night in 1964, the son brought a few of his friends over to the family bar for some drinks. As it neared midnight, these friends were starting to get hungry so the son brings over another round of drink while his mother, Teressa goes into the kitchen to whip something up for the boys. She looks into the fridge and finds a bunch of plump juicy chicken wings and decides to mix it up with some hot sauce to serve. The son and his friends were at first weary about this unusual dish but when they tasted it, were they ever surprised! It was dee-licious! And so this is how Buffalo chicken wings came to be. =)
After that, it was time to head back to home sweet home and another satisfying meal of congee and greasy dishes. It's good to be home. =) For more pictures, check out my Webshots, the link is at the top right.
Good morning Moo Moo!
Second day, I woke up feeling dead. The previous night's sleep was terrible with the air con whirring in the background, the crappy fold up bed that dipped in the middle, the constant tugging of the blanket on both sides of me and the cold of the night. Seems that everyone else in the family had a good night's sleep except me. =( So understandably, I was not all too keen about hopping in and out of the car every 10 minutes to look at sights.
Today's first stop was Letchworth State Park, which according to one of my parent's tour guide friends, is much more worth seeing than Watkins Glen. Oh course I wouldn't believe...Watkins Glen was unbelievably beautiful. Well I wasn't totally right on that... This park was nice too but I guess just a different kind of nice.
The giant concrete dam separating the part of the river that is dried up and the part that still has water
Here we saw a giant canyon (it's even called the "grand canyon of the east") that used to have a river running down the middle. It has since mysteriously dried up and we never did find out why because WE NEVER MADE IT TO THE VISITOR'S CENTER!!! So now there's just a huge dam there with only water on one side of it. It was a very hot day so after stopping the car for about the tenth time we decided to call it quits and head off to grab some disgusting American style Mickey D's. Granted that the one good thing about it was their one-dollar menu featuring Jr. Big Macs...how interesting. =)
Me on the ledge with the canyon in the background
Crazy water fountain
Girls washing their hair in the river
On the way home, we stopped in at Buffalo to dine on authentic Buffalo chicken wings at a place where I remember eating every time we went to the falls when my brother and I were kids. The place is called Frank and Teressa's Anchor Bar, which is where the legend of Buffalo chicken wings began. One night in 1964, the son brought a few of his friends over to the family bar for some drinks. As it neared midnight, these friends were starting to get hungry so the son brings over another round of drink while his mother, Teressa goes into the kitchen to whip something up for the boys. She looks into the fridge and finds a bunch of plump juicy chicken wings and decides to mix it up with some hot sauce to serve. The son and his friends were at first weary about this unusual dish but when they tasted it, were they ever surprised! It was dee-licious! And so this is how Buffalo chicken wings came to be. =)
After that, it was time to head back to home sweet home and another satisfying meal of congee and greasy dishes. It's good to be home. =) For more pictures, check out my Webshots, the link is at the top right.
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