Niagara Falls

We left Olean and took a side trip up to Niagara Falls on our way home. Alec thought the falls were cool. His reaction was an understated and very dry “That’s a lot of water”.  Erik and I got a good laugh out of that. He enjoyed watching the different Maid of the Mist boats go ‘under’ the falls.  The biggest reaction we got was when we stopped at the hotel (or toe-hel as Alec use to call them) and he asked if there was a pool. He was ecstatic and practically danced his way down to it. Guess we could skipped one of the wonders of the world and gone straight to Holiday Inn!

We had a great day just walking around the falls, having some ice cream, people watching and relaxing.

Olean – Part 5 - Portville

Another afternoon we took a drive to Portville. Our final destination was a playground that went along the creek (or in western New York speak “crick”).

Again my dad and I managed to take a gazillion pictures so I will narrow it down to the better few.

 

A great smile.

Olean –Part 4 –Franchot Park

As a little outing to give GG and Grandma time to rest and to give the boy (and the men) an outlet for their energy we took a trip across Olean to Franchot park for a little fun in the sun.

It had a playground that Alec spent all of 1 minute on.

 

2 minutes on the swing

 

About 20 minutes on the “fire engine” with the very friendly “fire cat”.

His firemen(and the cat at his feet)

3 minutes on the dyke….

And about an hour in the wading pool. We all had a blast just playing around and being goofy.

My dad and I had a good time playing with the camera. We took over 200 pictures. I tried to narrow it down on here to the ones I think are pretty fun.

Olean- Part- 3- Hanging Around

Alec found many ways to entertain himself while we were staying at GG’s house and visiting Grandma and Grump. He spent quite a bit of time “weeding” the garden. He planted some strawberries and in general had fun playing in the dirt.

 

Occasionally he suckered one of us into helping him (mostly Grump)

Apparently the water can was not enough

Olean- Part 2 – Squirrels

Norfolk had Mermaids….Burlington had cows….Portland had lighthouses and Olean has……. SQUIRRELS?!  Really? …was everything else taken?

 

Olean –Part I

We took a trip to Olean (NY) for a few days last week. Here some pictures of our drive out there….

 

2 hours in…and still in dreammies….

 

A sign too good to pass up…..

A little moving watching….(he only watched a half hour on the way out)….about 4 hours in….

Welcome to central and western New York….

Getting closer….

About 10 hours into the ride…

And then a little freedom (thanks grump)……

Moving In….

We are slowly unpacking all the boxes that have been in storage for the past year. Isn’t it nice how much help we are getting?

 

Hours of excitement for all!