Trips to the East.
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thebitterguySo last week, when I was on my week of holidays (which was really "four days of getting the GX schedule finalized, five days of trying to relax"), Cynra & I took a trip out to Picton where we stayed at the beautiful Lake on the Mountain.
Lake on the Mountain, for interested parties at home, is a bit of a natural wonder. The name explains it all. The lake is located on top of a limestone escarpment, 62 metres above Lake Ontario, with no visible source of water. We stayed at an Inn that's next to the park. The park is very small (consisting of a parking lot atop the escarptment, and an area next to the lake itself.
The highlights are the evenings. Picton is far away enough from the larger urban areas (Belleville is the closest, and it's about half an hour's drive away) that you get rid of a lot of light pollution and can see a lot of stars in the evening. In fact, the light smudge of the milky way could be seen running overhead.
Pictures were attempted to be taken of the night sky, but our camera just wasn't up to the task. I really need a nice digital SLR. Or maybe I should have just taken my film camera. The Glenora ferry is a particularly lovely sight to observe at night, an arrangement of lights cutting across the dark waters of Picton bay, leaving reflections in the ripples of its passing.
The cottage we stayed in was a single room affair that was fairly well supplied. For food we were on our own, but it had a set of pots and pans, a dishrack, and a fridge, stove, oven and microwave.
It also had a TV, but who goes away to watch tv?
I tried a recipie for Carbonara, although finding a fresh piece of Parmesean in a small town on a Thursday night is surprisingly not easy. We were also annoyed to find we missed a deli on the way into town by about twelve minutes We ended up using powdered stuff, which is very much not good. The recipie, on its own, has potential.
We spent a couple days relaxing, driving around Prince Edward County, trying one of the local wineries (it's just fermented grape juice to me, kids! I ain't got not palate to speak of) and going to visit Sandbanks park. The restaurant at Sandbanks looked a lot smaller than it had been when I was a kid and bought issues of the Legion of Superheros from it. I'll bet they no longer have spinner racks there. Poor, poor Reflecto.
We did visit Buddha Dog, where we were incredibly disappointed. I mean, seriously. It's like eating a slim jim. And I should have known better than to go to a gourmet hot dog place with a wife who's very... neurotic may be a strong term, but very SPECIFIC about how she takes certain foods.
We came home on Saturday, racing ahead of the afternoon's thunderstorms.
This week I've worked to get back onto my workout schedule. I'm reminded why it's a bad idea to stop.
Lake on the Mountain, for interested parties at home, is a bit of a natural wonder. The name explains it all. The lake is located on top of a limestone escarpment, 62 metres above Lake Ontario, with no visible source of water. We stayed at an Inn that's next to the park. The park is very small (consisting of a parking lot atop the escarptment, and an area next to the lake itself.
The highlights are the evenings. Picton is far away enough from the larger urban areas (Belleville is the closest, and it's about half an hour's drive away) that you get rid of a lot of light pollution and can see a lot of stars in the evening. In fact, the light smudge of the milky way could be seen running overhead.
Pictures were attempted to be taken of the night sky, but our camera just wasn't up to the task. I really need a nice digital SLR. Or maybe I should have just taken my film camera. The Glenora ferry is a particularly lovely sight to observe at night, an arrangement of lights cutting across the dark waters of Picton bay, leaving reflections in the ripples of its passing.
The cottage we stayed in was a single room affair that was fairly well supplied. For food we were on our own, but it had a set of pots and pans, a dishrack, and a fridge, stove, oven and microwave.
It also had a TV, but who goes away to watch tv?
I tried a recipie for Carbonara, although finding a fresh piece of Parmesean in a small town on a Thursday night is surprisingly not easy. We were also annoyed to find we missed a deli on the way into town by about twelve minutes We ended up using powdered stuff, which is very much not good. The recipie, on its own, has potential.
We spent a couple days relaxing, driving around Prince Edward County, trying one of the local wineries (it's just fermented grape juice to me, kids! I ain't got not palate to speak of) and going to visit Sandbanks park. The restaurant at Sandbanks looked a lot smaller than it had been when I was a kid and bought issues of the Legion of Superheros from it. I'll bet they no longer have spinner racks there. Poor, poor Reflecto.
We did visit Buddha Dog, where we were incredibly disappointed. I mean, seriously. It's like eating a slim jim. And I should have known better than to go to a gourmet hot dog place with a wife who's very... neurotic may be a strong term, but very SPECIFIC about how she takes certain foods.
We came home on Saturday, racing ahead of the afternoon's thunderstorms.
This week I've worked to get back onto my workout schedule. I'm reminded why it's a bad idea to stop.
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Date: 2008-08-14 01:24 am (UTC)Your description of Lake on the Mountain sounded intriguing, and I found quite a few on-line folklore references about the various mysteries surrounding the lake. It would make a great setting for a pulp era RPG adventure.
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Date: 2008-08-14 02:02 am (UTC)