Glad to Be Back

Boy, I didn't think I would ever say I was glad to be back on the internet! I'd like to apologize for dropping off the face of the earth; I was offered a second summer job (and as many of you know, college students can't really turn down a summer job offer). Unfortunately, this second job was a necessity and hiking is only a pastime. :-/ So, my life got put on hold, now that I've finally gotten settled into it, I have some time for other things: yay!

Since I had to put outdoorsy fun on the back burner, I don't have many exciting things to pass your way. But fortunately this week has started out well; I got to watch Toy Story 3 (throwback to my childhood, woot), a sac of baby spiders hatched on my ceiling (sounds gross, but it's kinda cool to watch them), and MD and I finally got to get outside.

Unfortunately, we were misinformed about the weather and decided to stay closer to home. But despite all the calls for thunderstorms, all we met was a hot, muggy sky in the Saratoga Battlefield. There is a great, one-way tour road through the park that we decided to bike down; it was definitely something we wouldn't have attempted, had we known more about its 10+ miles of hills and shadeless road, but I'm glad that we did tackle it.

We met up after church, pulled into the visitor's center some time after 2:00 and purchased our bike passes for the day. Then we took to our bikes with only a few granola bars and just one Gatorade each (light blue, as MD repeatedly specifies). We went to all of the stops on the tour, read almost all the signs and listened to all of the recordings of 'soldiers' and 'farmers' (we lovingly named these poor voice-acted bits as 'voices in a box'). I can't say that we really learned much of the history that we were presented with, but we were physically distracted and learning wasn't really our goal for the day.

All in all, it was a great trip, our muscles ached, our endorphins were high and we slept like rocks that night. I would love to recommend the park for biking, history, or just a casual walk (bring your dogs).

I'm not sure how soon I will be able to get back to the great outdoors again, but I will definitely give you something to run with weekly.
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(Haha, this was posted at 1:11, nice!)