Two Adventures in One Day!

Oneonta Landmark
Originally uploaded by JuneNY

It was a beautiful and fairly warm spring day today. This morning Leslie and I met up in Oneonta to try to find four new geocaches. The theme of the four seemed to be "alternative cache containers". We found three out of the four which is pretty good for us. The one we did not find is hidden somewhere on or in the Knight in front of Popek's. We think we actually did touch it, but we had some concerns about fooling around with it too much, since the statue is old and rusty. We found the other three fairly easily. One of them was in a HUGE culvert. Finding it was easy, but getting it down was a challenge and returning it was even more of a challengem but we managed to do it. It was a fun couple of hours. Of course, its always fun when you are successful!

Later on in the day, I met up with Carol in Morris and we headed over towards Gilbertsville. We had toured some historical houses one night in December, 2009. Since it was dark, it was pretty hard to see the outside of the houses. We wanted to get a look at them in daylight. We didn't have any problems finding them since I still had the printed material with the addresses. Then we spent some time on "The Gilbert Block". There are several shops that are very interesting. The Country Store still has the original counter and shelving behind it. At first the clerk was a bit irritated that we were sightseeing rather than shopping, but he loosened up after a minute or two and gladly showed us around and told us what he knows about the history of the place. Before leaving, I purchased a fresh tomato ($1.50!!!). The quilt shop next door is interesting and full of beautiful quilts and antiques. The owner was happy to answer any of our questions. We also went into the post office (the original wood facade is still there) and the hardware store. The picture way up at the top is of the Country Store (on the left) and the Quilt Shop from the front.

I took a few pictures of the MAJORS INN. I hope sometime I can go inside, when they are having some sort of event there.

The fish dinner at Christ Episcopal Church was outstanding! I don't think I ever had such fresh tasting fish, and it was only lightly breaded, not the thick breading you usually get when you order fried fish. One of the workers told us that the fish indeed was truly fresh, it had never been frozen. What a difference!