Vacation!

I've got to get some good photos taken of the new kitchen, but in the meantime I'm going to post a bunch of vacation pics.  We went up to Lake George in the Adirondacks for a week, and other than the two power outages, yellowjacket stings and extremely hot temps for the first half of the week, it was an absolutely wonderful vacation.

 

Our cute little one-room cabin.  It had a screened in porch with the table for eating.  And it had a loft for the kids to sleep in.  No TV and very weak wi-fi.

 The view from the door of our cabin.  The cabin seen on the right is the other one owned by the guys whose grandfather built them both.  A very nice couple were staying in this cabin - they'd been coming to this spot to vacation for the past 25 years.

 

Lake George had some of the clearest water I've ever seen in my whole life.  This area where you can see the rocks was probably at least 3 feet deep.  

 

 We rented a boat and a tube for four days.  The kids loved it.

Alex liked going fast.

 The kids loved it when we dropped anchor so they could jump off the boat and swim.  The water was cold, but not uncomfortably so.  Very nice on the days when we had 90+ degree weather.

 The beautiful view from behind the boat.  Unfortunately these photos don't do justice to how beautiful the scenery was.

 Grace very much enjoyed the front of the boat.

 

 There was a little island across from where our cabin was on the lake that we boated over to.

 

We ventured into Lake George Town to check it out.  A nice diversion for the kids, but definitely not some place we'd ever actually want to stay in.  Very touristy, but we hit a family-friendly restaurant, some gift shops and an arcade.  And found where the mini golf places were to come back to later in the week.

 This was our first time to play mini golf as a family, which was lots of fun.

We also spent a morning exploring Fort Ticonderoga, which was about 30 minutes up the road from us.  Sight of the first Revolutionary War victory, you can look out over Lake Champlain (seen in the background here) and see Vermont.

They had people dressed up like Revolutionary era people - we followed the drum and fife band in a little parade down to the garden area. 

 Alex plays with his wooden musket he got a the fort.

 Our final goodbye to the cabin.  Do you see a well-rested, vacation-filled family??  I sure do.

Cabinets

The appliances are here, but since they aren't actually installed yet they are just halfway sitting out in the middle of the kitchen or still in boxes on the plywood counter. So I figured I'd post pictures of the cabinets as they looked BEFORE the appliances arrived.

Don't these white cabinets just look fantastic!

 Here is the space where the stove will be.  It's now very much a focal point - you see it when you look into the kitchen from the dining room.

 Where the sink will be.  Dishwasher is already here because we kept the one we had since it was only a couple years old.

Where the refrigerator goes.  Much of the remaining work will be done when we are on vacation, so we will walk in to a nearly finished kitchen when we return!