Something new at Festival

At BJD festivals they usually provide a few photo sets so you have some settings in which to photograph your own dolls. They’ve never done that at the Sasha Festivals; until this year.

Carol brought one of her Sasha girls and one of her babies. Here they ae in some of the sets.

I think this setting won the Dress a Sasha contest last year.

When we had taken Carl’s Sashas I took a few more of my BJD kids.

My kids are much lighter colored than the Sashas. One of the attendees saw my girl in this set and thought she looked like a ghost.

Tom & Carol

Boat Ride

Jim and Danicia have a really nice pontoon boat and today we took it out for a short sightseeing trip. We went to a restaurant fronting the water with docks to tie up while you eat. Really nice food.

Aaron, Danicia’s son, drove the boat. He works at a local marina and is a really skilled boater.

The girls all wanted to swim so after lunch Aaron stopped the boat and let the girls do their swimming thing. Danicia and Mikayla jumped right in.

Carol didn’t jump in but she can’t be around water without getting into it.

Lakefront property in the Adirondacks is prime real estate so all of the houses are really well kept up. They range from the relatively modest

to multi million dollar mansions.

A sightseeing cruise based in Old Forge runs through the lake. We met it a couple of times.

Tomorrow we’ll be driving to Rochester to register for the Sasha Festival. The next update will likely be in a couple of days and will cover some of our activities there.

Tom & Carol

A scenic drive

Today we drove through the mountains to Warrensburg. Had lunch there and then came back to the cabin. We didn’t push and stopped for photos several places. These are a few of the highlights.

Raquette Lake

Methodist Church; Warrensburg

Victorian era home; Warrensburg

Vintage lamp, seen in an old home; Warrensburg

River rafting  party; Hudson River.

Tom & Carol

Pizza and Fireworks

It was a beautiful fourth of July.

Jim has a wood fired pizza oven in the pavilion and he  fired that up and made a whole bunch of pizzas. Every one different from Carol’s choice (salami, pepperoni, mushrooms, olives) to vegetarian and pulled pork with barbeque sauce (my favorite)

Here Jim is taking a finished one out.

When we were done with the pizzas we went down to the water and watched the sun set over the lake. This is why “Sunset Beach”.

Finally, the perfect end to a lovely 4th of July, fireworks over the lake.

Tom & Carol

Sunset Beach

We didn’t do much today. Carol and I were both tired so we slept in. We’ve been getting up at 5:30 to be on the road about 7:00 and as we’re not as young as we once were it was catching up with us.

This is our cabin at Sunset Beach.

and our bedroom

We walked into Inlet for lunch but none of my photos inspire me tonight so I’ll try again tomorrow.

So here is my boy looking out over the lake.

Tom

Sunset Beach

Carol and I got here a little after 3. Jim & Danicia and the kids were at a wedding and wouldn’t be home ‘til later so we moved in to our cabin and then walked down to the lakeside. It was windy and cool.

Alayna had been a flower girl at the wedding and when she got changed out of her flower girl dress she had to work off some pent up energy.

Tom & Carol

Carol’s Homeland

We spent the day with Carol’s cousin Susan. This is the country where Carol grew up so she lived here most of her life. e have also visited frequently. I mentioned yesterday that this is Amish country. As we were driving through Middlefield this buggy crossed in front of us.

Many of the buggy horses are retired race horses. Not like the derbys but sulky racing. They are beautiful horses none the less.

We stopped at an antique shop and Carol found some dolls to browse through.

Later we stopped in Chardon. A beautiful little city only about 40 miles East of Cleveland but with much more small town feel.

They were setting up the farmer’s market, held every Friday, June through August.

Tom & Carol