I feel extremely relaxed after this week’s vacation, which involved hanging around NYC and traveling up to the Adirondacks for a few days. In New York City, we celebrated my birthday on Long Beach and at Habana Outpost, did some shopping, watched bits and pieces of the Pride Parade, went to a Celebrate Brooklyn performance in Prospect Park, ate lots of delicious food (here and here and here, for example), and fit some running in as well.

In the Adirondacks, we stayed at a lovely bed and breakfast that I would recommend, if you’re ever in that area. We took a boat tour of Lake George, which was a nice way to spend two hours and prepared us for kayaking in the lake later that afternoon.

One day was devoted to hiking Crane Mountain. This book described a moderate 4.8 mile loop that summited the mountain and worked it’s way down around to a pond and descended back to the trail head, taking about 4-5 hours. In actuality, the hike only took us 3.5 hours (including our stop for lunch and a swim in the pond) and included incredibly steep ascents and descents, many of which required scaling rocks and boulders. Not exactly what I was expecting, but we made it through unscathed (despite the 95 degree weather) and without getting lost once (which I was incredibly anxious about).

On our way back to New York, we stopped by the Hyde Collection in Glen Falls, NY, which reminded me of a more laid back version of the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston.

We took hundreds of photos of our adventures, of course, and you can see the New York City pictures here and the Adirondack photos here. Hope you enjoy viewing them as much as we enjoyed taking them!