Trip Day 3 - to Ballston Spa and on to Glens Falls

One of the first things a westerner needs to learn when they come to the Eastern United States is that there are trees everywhere. In fact the only places you don't see trees is where man has cut them down to build towns, farm, etc. The fall colors are still a week or more away. Some of the trees have begun to change but not many. The predominate color right now is yellow if a tree isn't green. Barbara and I both would love to see the reds, etc. but not yet.
We took State Route 9 for aways today winding between little towns - they are always the best in upstate New York and the other rural areas we have visited in the past.
But about 2/3s of the day was spent traveling on a toll freeway up to Albany where we could switch to a free highway. Traveled this way up to Ballstown Spa where we both have ancestors. The county has a county historian and the office is in the county courthouse and has a tremendous collection of information. In fact left only because they kicked us out. Had so much fun we skipped lunch. (Yes, really.) I took 211 photo images of pages of information for Barb and I.
Then we left to spend the next two nights with Jill Poulson's parents in Glens Falls. Jill use to be in our ward and as it turns out is related to Barbara 2 different ways. Her folks were gracious enough to allow us to bunk in there house for two nights and save us a ton of money. I even went hometeaching with Bro Eckenfelder (Jill's dad) and gave the lesson.

OK, the only pictures today were about breakfast. Yes, breakfast. We went to the CIA for breakfast. No not that CIA but the Culinary Institute of Americe. It is an exclusive pace for people to train to be first class chefs. We were too late for dinner last night so we went for breakfast. You know me and eggs so I went for the French Toast (soaked in a custard flavored in cinnamon. Lucious but way to filling - I actually couldn't eat but a little more than one slice. This is what my plate looked like.
This is one of the halls of the Culinary Institute. It is almost $30,000 a year for tuition for either a two or four year course. We walked the halls of ground floor of this building and were able to look in windows and see lectures and food preparaton activities. Great place to visit and the food was good.