Today was a very rainy day with lots of "scattered" thunderstorms. There were several heavy downpours throughout the day, but we planned for this and headed indoors for today. We found a museum called The Wild Center in Tupper Lake, which is about 40 miles from where we are camping. We drove through Lake Placid and Saranac Lake, both beautiful towns, and then through about 20 miles of Adirondack forest to get to Tupper Lake where this natural history of the Adirondack museum is located. It was just great! The building is very well designed and is a "green" building. The exibits were unique and highly interactive and it wasn't too crowded. We went to a talk about getting birds to visit and stay in your backyard year round and we loved the glacier exhibit. Sheldon especially liked the river otters and I enjoyed the short hike outside to around the ponds. Rodney really thought the green roof (with actual plants growing on it) was cool, and Brianna liked the solar panel that was hooked up to a fountain. When you covered up part of the panel, the fountain slowed down, and then sped up again once it was uncovered.
Even though we hardly saw the sun and it was only around 60 degrees all day, we made the best of it. Brianna went to the movie tonight at 7 pm here at the campground. They played "27 Dresses". Sheldon wasn't really into that movie, so he and I played a game of "Sorry". Please note that I beat him 2 games to 1.
Tomorrow we plan on going either to Lake Placid to the Olympic Museum or to Whiteface mountain to drive up to the summit if the weather is clear. It is supposed to be chilly and may rain again tomorrow. GRRRRR. We also want to go to the High Falls Gorge which is quite close and is supposed to be a great hike with excellent views of lots of waterfalls. We're waiting for the nicest days to go to Ausable Chasm and we also want to go to the Adirondack Park visitor's center.
Enjoy the photos!
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