It's 5:30pm on Day 17 and I still have a lingering hangover from last night's speed drinking so forgive the brevity of today's entry. Still, yesterday was yet another jelly-packed day (see what I did there...) so I feel I have to pull my finger out and do it justice.
We've been slightly overdoing the food recently (shocker), so 
today was the start of a new regime of healthier eating. It is a special new leaf for me as it represents my five thousandth new leaf and you know what they say; five thousandth time lucky. Anyway, the way not to start a healthy cycle is with two vouchers for free breakfast at Howard Johnsons. 12,000 calories later (the corned beef hash was coronary-inducing heaven) and it was time to get in some walking. We did 
three of the local nature trails that start just behind our hotel as well as the 2.7 mile loop of mirror lake on which the town of Lake Placid is built (which makes you wonder why the town is named after Lake Placid rather than the more picturesque Mirror Lake). The walks were seriously pretty (see attached photos for details and add your own adjectives) but despite being a total of 5 miles, they probably barely burnt off the side order of toast.
today was the start of a new regime of healthier eating. It is a special new leaf for me as it represents my five thousandth new leaf and you know what they say; five thousandth time lucky. Anyway, the way not to start a healthy cycle is with two vouchers for free breakfast at Howard Johnsons. 12,000 calories later (the corned beef hash was coronary-inducing heaven) and it was time to get in some walking. We did 
three of the local nature trails that start just behind our hotel as well as the 2.7 mile loop of mirror lake on which the town of Lake Placid is built (which makes you wonder why the town is named after Lake Placid rather than the more picturesque Mirror Lake). The walks were seriously pretty (see attached photos for details and add your own adjectives) but despite being a total of 5 miles, they probably barely burnt off the side order of toast.Next it was time to work out what Lake Placid had to offer us for the remaining 24 hours of our stay. A quick trip to the tourist information booth (which was, miraculously, open) proved 50% useful. The lady told us plenty about the popular Olympic related things to do around town (useful) and also of the special screening of a silent movie with live organ accompanyment (not so useful).
If you're wondering why the name rings a bell, Lake Placid has held the Winter Olympics twice in the past and continues to act as one of thre
e Team USA ("Amazing Awaits...") Olympic training bases. We got a tour of the training centre and we must have been the first people to tour in 2008 because Katie the tour guide sat with us looking utterly transfixed at the introduction video like it was the first time she'd seen it. Highlights of the tour (in reverse order) were...Bronze Medal = The largest treadmill in North America used by the cross country skiers on skis on wheels; Silver Medal = The kitchen staff of the canteen mocking a huge argument for us then coming back to take our applause; Gold Medal = Kate falling in love / lust with one of the young olympic hopefuls working out in the gym. To be fair, even I would have had his children...and if that sounds gay, well, then that's like calling me gay just because I have every Barbara Streisand album ever recorded and know how to braid hair. Hmmm...
e Team USA ("Amazing Awaits...") Olympic training bases. We got a tour of the training centre and we must have been the first people to tour in 2008 because Katie the tour guide sat with us looking utterly transfixed at the introduction video like it was the first time she'd seen it. Highlights of the tour (in reverse order) were...Bronze Medal = The largest treadmill in North America used by the cross country skiers on skis on wheels; Silver Medal = The kitchen staff of the canteen mocking a huge argument for us then coming back to take our applause; Gold Medal = Kate falling in love / lust with one of the young olympic hopefuls working out in the gym. To be fair, even I would have had his children...and if that sounds gay, well, then that's like calling me gay just because I have every Barbara Streisand album ever recorded and know how to braid hair. Hmmm...We also drove out to the bobsleigh site on the outskirts of town where they were having an Americas Cup competition. Despite it being minus a squillion degrees, it was incredible to watch these bobsleighs hitting in excess of 70 miles an hour but the true stars of the show were the skeleton riders that went down first. Flying head first down a slope on a tea tray just 4 inches from the floor sounds as dangerous as it looks. Breathtaking stuff.
Late lunch was at The Cottage which is a cozy little log cabin overlooking Mirror Lake with a very welcome open fire. Again, the healthy eating went out of the window - it's hard to order a salad when it's freezing outside - so heaping bowls and plates of steaming, tasty stodge were ordered and devoured instead.
Night time entertainment involved a bar crawl along Main Street. We went into every single bar that lo
oked good...they were both great. The first was a sports bar (i.e. it had three plasmas rather than the regular two) where the walls were covered with personalised dollar bills (hence the photo with the blog address on - I'm looking to take this phenomenom global!) and the second was the recomended Zig Zag. It had a pool table, electronic dart board and a 2for1 happy hour. Several hours, many frames, dozens of sets, gallons of beer and one ridiculously small bill later and it was time for a snowy, drunken walk home past a, thankfully, closed McDonalds.
oked good...they were both great. The first was a sports bar (i.e. it had three plasmas rather than the regular two) where the walls were covered with personalised dollar bills (hence the photo with the blog address on - I'm looking to take this phenomenom global!) and the second was the recomended Zig Zag. It had a pool table, electronic dart board and a 2for1 happy hour. Several hours, many frames, dozens of sets, gallons of beer and one ridiculously small bill later and it was time for a snowy, drunken walk home past a, thankfully, closed McDonalds.Day 17 will be a day dealing with a hangover...
Big shout out to Lanky Brooklyn Mike who's restaurant we found on the outskirts of Lake Placid. You old dog you...
4 comments:
I thought Lake Placid was famous 'cos a really big crocodile lived in there and they made a film about it....it was true wasn't it?
Ah, you're thinking about Crocodile Dundee. It's an easy mistake to make - just the other day I plugged Alice Springs into the GPS only to realise it was on the other side of the world. I was as surprised as you are. Actually, on closer inspection you're half right but it was the pther Lake Placid down in Florida. And now, it's gallery time...take it away Morph...
Hope you're staying warm in this cold weather, you big queen.
P.S. I had Top's facebook account disabled.
It's a bitch of a commute from Brooklyn but the customers faces light up when I yell "Opah!" so it's all worth it.
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