Only time for a short post this evening, it's already near midnight and I need to be up early in the morning in order to pack up and move.

    A very nice day for me though. Headed west this morning and ended up in Rome, NY for a couple of hours of wandering around. Wanted to go to the 'Erie Canal Village', a museum and buildings based on, and showing, what life along the Erie Canal would of been like 150 years ago. But alas, it isn't open until Memorial Day weekend. So once again a week too early.

   No problem though as it was nearly time to go meet up with a friend of mine for dinner. She had flown into the area yesterday on business and knew she would have this evening off. No problem finding her hotel, and as there were no decent restaurants around that area, we decided to go on over to Sylvan Beach, on the east end of Oneida Lake, and see if we could find something there. I should explain that the reason we hit on that location is because I had looked up and discovered that there was a light house over there on the lake where the Barge (Erie) Canal opens into the lake.

   Actually found the light house with out too many problems despite the fact that the signs for it are few and very, very small. Nice little light house though, so we got out, wandered around, took pictures, and then went off in search of food. We ended up finding a really nice restaurant that looked out over the town beach and the east end of the lake. Can't remember the name of it, and it really doesn't matter. The food was adequate, basic 'pub' food, but the beer was cold, the view was wonderful and the company was very nice. We sat for quite some time while watching one rain storm cell after another march across the west end of the lake.

   After dinner we tried to take a walk down along the water front, but the rain finally backed around and hit us too. Instead we took to the truck and decided to take a drive around the lake. While driving toward the west end we noticed this amazing double rainbow seemingly coming right out of the middle of the lake. We pulled in, took pictures and watched it for a few moments.

  We finally made it all the way around the lake and I dropped my friend off at her hotel. Fueled up the truck and drove on back to the trailer. No problem there except for a couple tremendous rain cells that went across the highway. Hope it all clears up before tomorrow morning.

   Will be loading up and moving on up to Oswego, NY tomorrow. Need to reposition in order to be ready for the next dance weekend starting on Friday. Have been going through contra dance withdrawal for the last couple of weeks so I am more than ready to be back dancing again. The fact that it is the Great Bear Trio's own dance camp only makes it better. Can't hardly wait.


   Here is one picture of the rainbow's we saw.... there may be more later on.