Road Trip

This past weekend, Billy and I took a quick roadtrip to New York for our friends' wedding. After a couple of wrong turns and an overnight stay in Mahwah, NJ, we arrived in the cute town of Schenectady, NY. We unloaded our stuff and set out to find a good running spot in town before the wedding festivities began.

With the help of a town brochure and our new gps (love that thing!!), we ventured through a very sketchy neighborhood to find a cute park in a nicer neighborhood and got our runs in. We had initially had hopes of staying in NYC Friday night and getting to run in Central Park on Saturday before heading to the wedding but decided that would be trying to do too much. We did, however, get to run in Central Park- just the one in Schenectady instead :) It was a neat park area and had a beautiful rose garden where a wedding was taking place as I passed it. This website has some nice pics of the place, since I forgot our camera back at the hotel.

After the run, we stumbled upon the Schenectady Strawberry Festival (Billy had actually discovered it during his run and decided we should check it out :)), grabbed lunch at a deli, picked up some local beer, and headed back to get ready for the wedding. Maybe we'll make it to our local strawberry festival next year!

We got in the hotel hot tub for a few minutes (Billy used to think I was weird for always bringing a bathing suit on trips, but it does come in handy!!), got dressed, sampled a local beverage, and headed to the wedding at Riverstone Manor, this beautiful estate right on the Mohawk River. I felt so bad for the bride and groom, as they wanted an outdoor wedding, and it was raining pretty steadily when we pulled up to the site. About 10 minutes before the ceremony was to begin, we were informed that they still wanted an outdoor wedding, so all of the guests headed over to the lawn area, umbrellas in hand, and witnessed a beautiful outdoor wedding...in the rain! Definitely memorable for all! And, one of our other friends officiated the ceremony, so that was fun to watch too :)

Riverstone Manor (from their website)

This is kind of how the tent looked (also from RSM website)

Here is a picture of us with Pete and Mollie at their wedding!

The next day, Billy got up early to run, I packed up our stuff, and we headed out on what turned out to be a VERY long ride home. Note to self, if we ever drive up to the northeast again, the Eastern Shore is the best way to go (not 95)!!

My attempt to take a picture of NYC as we were driving by

(you can faintly see the skyline in the background :))

We are very glad we made the trip up there, so yay for a fun weekend and for the newlywed Turners :)