Dinosaur Day

We were all pretty bummed that we had reached the last day of our RV adventure, but we were determined to make it a good day. We buttoned up the RV after a late breakfast and decided to hang out at the Canandaigua campground pool until a little after noon. Another session of Daddy pool dancing was just what the doctor ordered before our long drive home.

Mama Sandwich

...and the Grand Finale!

Just as were trying to decide where to stop for lunch, we received an email from Jay Thoman (Rochester native) with the timely information that the original Dinosaur Bar-B-Que is in Syracuse. We set our course for BBQ!

It's a Droopy Day. Hoo-Ray

It was so bright (and hot!) outside entering the restaurant was like stepping into a root cellar. After about twenty minutes, our eyes adjusted enough to the dark that we could make out the cool murals and photos on the walls. I'm a fan.

Amaya was strangely disturbed by the graffiti, but she recovered.

I've heard that there now is a Dinosaur Bar-B-Que in Troy, NY, but we've never been. I think we've got a destination for our next road trip! Maybe then, we could partake of the beer, too...

Keiko the Bar-B-Que Velociraptor

We stopped by LL Bean's in Albany to pick up a few gifts for our neighbors who had been looking after our chickens. We had also been planning to see Harry Potter 7.2 at the movie theater, but Keiko got scared at the last minute and said that she didn't want to go. (Of course, two days later she went to watch it with a friend and had no problems...) Instead, we did something equally entertaining: shopped for girls shorts at the Justice store. I guess our fun vacation really had come to an end.

We rolled into our driveway in Williamstown at about 10 PM. The girls were thrilled to see their cats (Maine Coon cats named Minnie, Chloe, and Woofie) and were so wound up that they didn't get to bed until about midnight. Rachelle and I wanted nothing more than to go to sleep too, but we were saddled with the task of cleaning the RV that night to have it sparkling and ready to return first thing the next morning. Unpacking was a lot faster than packing, of course, but we quickly learned that heat wave we had been experiencing for the last few weeks had extended all the way to Massachusetts. We were a good team, though, despite the sweat and exhaustion, and whipped it into shape. We were home.