Happy Anniversary! 26 years with my beautiful wife!
The two of us spent the day in Ithaca, NY. Unfortunately, it was raining all day, sometimes hard, but that didn’t deter us. We ate at the Ale House for lunch, the same wonderful place we ate at the last time we were here. We then went to the Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell campus. The rain was quite heavy at this point. We ran into the place and the guy at the front told us that two of the four floors were under construction and were closed. The only open floors were the Asian collection and the European collection. The best parts of the museum though were the closed floors (the American collection & Modern collection). There was only one “name” piece of art that we could see, a Cranach painting.
When we got out of the museum, we drove all over the place. The reason for this was that there were many construction projects going on. It was so hard to get near the college campus. We got lost a lot. We did eventually find the campus and then a parking space. We bought college shirts, Starbucks coffee, and then went to the Earth Science Museum just outside of town. It was small but very nice. We learned about glaciers, stratification and paleontology. In the evening, we had strawberry shortcake with ice cream to celebrate our anniversary.
We also heard from our son! He’s now at his new duty station and he loves it. Funny story though, the person who was supposed to pick him up at the airport thought his flight arrived at 9:30PM, not AM, and she had also turned her cell phone off. Jeffrey took a cab to a mall and hung out until the gal got the message and sent someone to pick him out, six hours later. When he got to his new site, the person with his apartment keys wasn’t around, so they put him in a hotel for the night. The next day, the finance folks wouldn’t reimburse Jeffrey for his hotel stay, but eventually found a loophole – his shop (who told him to go to the hotel in the first place) could pay him back. Now that he’s in his place, he’s loving it. His two roommates are on deployment so Jeffrey is all alone. He will now get qualified in three different shops: Radar, “Secret Stuff,” and “Not Secret Stuff.” He says he has plenty of free time to take college classes, so that’s what he’s going to do. If he can get his Bachelors, he’ll try to become an officer.