Day 1: NH-NY

Right on time, 8am this morning we hit the road, driving from NH through Vermont and to our destination: Niagara Falls, New York. So far, I beleive our packing went pretty well. We barely fit everything into the car (my one bag of clothes quickly grew to 3 overnight once I included shoes and hair supplies). Our only mistake being that we packed all of our food and snacks in the very back of the hatchback under all of our bags -- not within easy reach which would have been the sensible thing to do!


Although we have not yet seen any spectactular Falls this town is known for yet, the rain is sure falling hard enough for us to be staying in a Hotel for 2 nights (me: "YES!") This leads us to Cohen's first elevator ride; I have never seen him cock his head at the ground so many times! The drive wasnt bad although Marc is very frustrated with the stable NY state speed limit which remained 55 although the highway grew to become 4 lanes and the EXTREME amount of staties that patrolled it. We took an hour break in the middle of the day and stopped in Albany to take Cohen on a walk along the Hudson river. The park had a great pedestrian bridge that crossed the highway. We were very quickly invaded by lunch hour power walkers whom took over the sidewalks chatting about how many calories they consume daily and men doing yoga within the trees in their business suits. No lie, they bowed to the trees when they were done. Needless to say, the dog park contained no friends for Cohen, other than the geese that Marc tried to persuade him to capture for our lunch.

Niagara Falls welcomed us with an absurd amount of power lines and Wanda (whom you will all know very well, for she is our trusty GPS) was sure to take us to through to take us through the Detroit-esque Ghettos (she never fails to amuse us), fyi -- dont ever take the busses here!! But we are safe and dry and ready for a full day ahead of us tomorrow, suited head to toe in rain gear!