Saratoga Springs - Dinner Break

We have seen nearly all of New York it seems.  On the way down from Maine, we managed to meet up with an old friend of mine from high school.  Lowell and his wife Joanna invited us to stop for a break in Saratoga Springs on our long drive.  Much has changed in our lives since we last saw each other.  I was the best man in his wedding and we had both just graduated from high school.  He is now in the navy with 2 daughters and another child on the way (perhaps a boy).  I am a college graduate with a job in the D.C. area.  We had so much catching up to do.  As always with good, old friends the conversation was great and we all too quickly discovered that we were still the same in the most important ways.  In some ways, I felt like I still could've run out 40 yards for a pass from him or signaled to back him up as left defender when he played goalie.  That was years ago, but the connections we had made on the field, in the classroom, and in church remained.  His wife was just as I remember her too, a great cook and conversationalist.  :)  We stopped by for tacos after all day on the road and then headed the rest of the way down to New York City.  We realized that between Buffalo, Oneonta, Saratoga Springs, and NYC, we would see most of the state of New York that wasn't a state park!  All of it was beautiful, from Niagara to the Catskills.  Here are a couple pictures from that dinner.