Cooperstown

Today we visited Cooperstown, New York, and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Cooperstown is a very picturesque little town in the middle of nowhere. It sits on Otsego Lake, and that's where we started our day. We ate breakfast at the Lake Front Restaurant as the mist began to rise off the surface of the water. We had beautiful sunshine all day long for our visit to the Baseball Hall of Fame. This was one of those places I could spend a whole day at. We enjoyed learning about the origins of the game, and seeing the old pictures. The actual Hall where the players are enshirined is rather quiet and solemn. The town was buzzing with activity, since they will be inducting two more members this Sunday, Cal Ripken, Jr. and Tony Gwynn. By 1:00PM, we were ready to move on to Niagara Falls. It was a 4 hour drive across the heart of New York. I drove the first half, and Jennifer drove the second (I had a headache). As we approached our hotel, I made a wrong turn and ended up over the Rainbow Bridge and in Canada. Yeesh...what a mess! Simply turning around and heading back to the U.S.A. isn't as simple as you would think. It took 15 minutes to convince Canadian Customs that we had made a wrong turn and wanted to return to the U.S. We finally arrived at the Days Inn, a short walk from the American Falls. We dropped our stuff off in the room and headed over to the Falls. The view from the U.S. side is not as inpressive, but we didn't want to hassle with going in to Canada again. We checked out the American Falls and Horseshoe Falls from Goat Island, which is between the two. It was nice, but tomorrow will be better...