Best Western University Inn Ithaca

Waffles for breakfast with maple syrup, I approve of breakfast foods in the USA. Went out to Ithaca for the day, the town where Scott has just moved from to have a look round, see where he works and to get my hair colour sorted out. Really pretty town, there are a couple of colleges and we drove up to the campus to get a good view down the hill out over the lake. Was a clear day and the water was really blue ...

We'd agreed on a slow start this week while I’m recovering from such a long trip so had a nice cooked breakfast and then headed out to the supermarket to pick up some food and use the free wi-fi (internet won’t get hooked up till Thursday). I was most amused to find that in the foreign food aisle they had an Irish ...

Very early start, quick cup of tea and shower then off to the airport. Check in and time for my last cup of tea in England and a croissant to share. A very brave goodbye with Kate and then off through security, complete with a last minute list of things to pick up in the airport shops (Kate is very good at organising me with lists!).<br><br>Flight was fine, I ended up sitting next ...

Just a short note, for work I travelled to Elmira Ny in Oct 2009. It was a fun week, Elmira is a small city on the Southern Tier of NY. <br><br>It is quite a pleasant drive from Toronto to Elmira. From Toronto down to Niagara and across the Lewiston Bridge. There is often a lne up, but Monday morning when I got there, there was nary a car on the bridge. Customs looked bored and passed me through. From there down through Buffalo and ...

... I was hoping to get a chance to meet Baby Poland, but alas, I will have to wait until we return for a visit! <br><br>And so ends this chapter in our families life and we are off to a new adventure. Thanks to all of the amazing friends we have made during our time here, we will all leave a piece of our hearts here!

... Falls which we heard was only about a mile from the inn. It was fabulous! One of the bumper stickers in Ithaca says that "Ithaca is gorges" and they are everywhere. <br><br>Ithaca is a college town with both Ithaca College and Cornell University finding their homes there. It is a town of hills in much the same way that San Francisco and Seattle have hills only they have snow and ice in the winter. We were told the story of a ...

Day 33 &#8211; Buffalo, NY to Seneca Falls, NY to Ithaca, NY<br><br>Things we did on the way to Seneca Falls: <br>- Got breakfast at Dunkin Donuts for the second day in a row because, again, this is tradition for Bri&#8217;s side of the family. However, we did decide that DD has a damn fine multigrain bagel. <br>- Clapped our hands and jumped up and down in our seats when Robie surprised us with Munchkins that she had ...

... kept pushing on through. Another three hours and we were approaching the United States again.<br><br>We reentered the United States by Niagara Falls. The border crossing took a much longer time. Several of the cars in front of us were stopped for inspection including the trunks. There were eight lines across each with a lengthy line of cars waiting to cross...and this wasn ...

Today we traveled to Janine's house, Moms sister. We saw Aunt Joanie, Cousin Micheal, Uncle Jim, Aunt Mary-Sue, and Janine's boyfriend, Tony. It was great to see them all. We had dinner with the family and then called it a night knowing we were starting our travels at five the next morning. We are all very excited to come home tomorrow.

Sunday dawned as yet another utterly beautiful day.Warm, clear, no real humidity. Maria and I checked out the Ithaca Farmers Market ( a mix of local crafts, farm stalls, and food stalls) on the banks of Lake Cayuga. I was intorduced to a neighbour of theirs, an historian at Cornell, but who was introduced as "our neighbourhood shop steward". Maria then explained. The residents of Ithaca had a while back, organised themselves into a form of "rate payers union", with an elected ...