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dolariAlright, we're gonna try Day three again...
DAY THREE - Lock Haven -> State College
Before we left, we made reservations at the Hotel State College, which was the hotel directly behind a chinese food place we used to go to all the time, and across the street from the Kinko's I worked at. After waking up, we called up the hotel to confirm our room and...HORRORS, they had us for the wrong day. A few last minute calls and we had a hotel at the Summerfield Suites...it was incredibly overpriced, and was a suite to top it all off. But, hey, beggars can't be choosers. Not that I'm complaining. There was some high school basketball thing going on, which meant lots of high schoolers in cheerleading outfits. :) I'm a sucker for pom poms.
We headed to the hotel straight away, to get settled for the rest of the day, and then left for the first food haunt, Hi~Way pizza. It's a small local chain, owned by these folks who own a TON of different restaurants in State College, and have some damned good food. I had a pizza I've NEVER had anywhere else, a pesto-feta-garlic-pine nut pizza that is downright GREEN and has much tastiness. After some food, we decided to go straight south and work our way back to the hotel.
A wrong turn had us miss Boalsburg completely, but a straight shot up Atherton brought us to the Meyer Dairy, out first stop. We didn't go inside, we were going to save the ice cream for later. We used it mostly because it was on a high hill overlooking the area, mainly the dairy behind it, and Hills Plaza in front. While we there, pretty late in the afternoon, we noticed a hot air balloon sailing across the sky. I always thought hot air balloons could only fly in the mornings when the air was cool. It must have been part of something bigger since we also saw very small powered glider thingies flying around as well.
From there, we soldiered on to Lemont to see the "Playmobile Place." I think ti's name is Fosters, and it's an old train depot that's been turned into a miniature railroad depot place and Playmobil store. I took pics of the semi-abandonned track for Emily, but couldn't get near the depot thanks to several large scary men-children playing war, using the two storied building as a great place to stage some kind of takeover of the Universe.
We moved along to...well...Something Plaza. I can't remember it's name, just to see the old Chinese Buffet we used to go to all the time, only to see it closed up. Some vandals had written "We sell cats" and drawn a crude vagina on the door. Go figure. I guess it was the dorr that made us decide it was time to visit some cats.
We pulled into Hamilton Square (where my fave pizza place was) to go into Wild Side Pet Store. Wild Side has the Best Invention Ever. They encourage the public, wether you're going to buy a pet or not, to go into a walk-in-closet sized room filled with kittens to acclimate them to humans. They have a puppy-room, too, but the kitty-room...well...they're KITTIES. Usually when we'd go there were ten or so kittens all playing with each other. This time, just three, but I think one counted as several cats (it had multiple toes, and a really short tail). We spent a LOT of time there. :)
We were both feeling a tad bit hungry after the kitty room, so we backtracked to Meyer Dairy and had ice cream. I got the teaberry icecream. Teaberry is GOOD STUFF. I don't care what any of you so. Teaberry ice cream is like eating frozen Pepto-bismol. Which I wouldn't mind having. Seriously. :) I love the taste of Pepto Bismol. And up there, it's got it's own little industry.
We tried to hit one of the grocery stores we'd go to to pick up some regional snacks. I picked up some Middleswarth bags and Birch Beer for the long trip home (Middleswarths is your GOD). We decided to putter around some more old haunts, and try to find Dean's old workplace. Dean had tried several times last time he was up to find his old work, but couldn't because North Atherton had changed so much since we'd been there. IT took a LOT of backtracking, but we DID find it, no thanks to the city planners. Afterwards we went to Mike's Movies and Music and grabbed some menus from DP Doughs, another local haunt of ours. Everythings a haunt around here. :)
After all the running around, we'd decided we were done for the day, came back to the hotel and had a wonderful night's sleep (after I kissed the ground, thankful I was back in town)....
DAY THREE - Lock Haven -> State College
Before we left, we made reservations at the Hotel State College, which was the hotel directly behind a chinese food place we used to go to all the time, and across the street from the Kinko's I worked at. After waking up, we called up the hotel to confirm our room and...HORRORS, they had us for the wrong day. A few last minute calls and we had a hotel at the Summerfield Suites...it was incredibly overpriced, and was a suite to top it all off. But, hey, beggars can't be choosers. Not that I'm complaining. There was some high school basketball thing going on, which meant lots of high schoolers in cheerleading outfits. :) I'm a sucker for pom poms.
We headed to the hotel straight away, to get settled for the rest of the day, and then left for the first food haunt, Hi~Way pizza. It's a small local chain, owned by these folks who own a TON of different restaurants in State College, and have some damned good food. I had a pizza I've NEVER had anywhere else, a pesto-feta-garlic-pine nut pizza that is downright GREEN and has much tastiness. After some food, we decided to go straight south and work our way back to the hotel.
A wrong turn had us miss Boalsburg completely, but a straight shot up Atherton brought us to the Meyer Dairy, out first stop. We didn't go inside, we were going to save the ice cream for later. We used it mostly because it was on a high hill overlooking the area, mainly the dairy behind it, and Hills Plaza in front. While we there, pretty late in the afternoon, we noticed a hot air balloon sailing across the sky. I always thought hot air balloons could only fly in the mornings when the air was cool. It must have been part of something bigger since we also saw very small powered glider thingies flying around as well.
From there, we soldiered on to Lemont to see the "Playmobile Place." I think ti's name is Fosters, and it's an old train depot that's been turned into a miniature railroad depot place and Playmobil store. I took pics of the semi-abandonned track for Emily, but couldn't get near the depot thanks to several large scary men-children playing war, using the two storied building as a great place to stage some kind of takeover of the Universe.
We moved along to...well...Something Plaza. I can't remember it's name, just to see the old Chinese Buffet we used to go to all the time, only to see it closed up. Some vandals had written "We sell cats" and drawn a crude vagina on the door. Go figure. I guess it was the dorr that made us decide it was time to visit some cats.
We pulled into Hamilton Square (where my fave pizza place was) to go into Wild Side Pet Store. Wild Side has the Best Invention Ever. They encourage the public, wether you're going to buy a pet or not, to go into a walk-in-closet sized room filled with kittens to acclimate them to humans. They have a puppy-room, too, but the kitty-room...well...they're KITTIES. Usually when we'd go there were ten or so kittens all playing with each other. This time, just three, but I think one counted as several cats (it had multiple toes, and a really short tail). We spent a LOT of time there. :)
We were both feeling a tad bit hungry after the kitty room, so we backtracked to Meyer Dairy and had ice cream. I got the teaberry icecream. Teaberry is GOOD STUFF. I don't care what any of you so. Teaberry ice cream is like eating frozen Pepto-bismol. Which I wouldn't mind having. Seriously. :) I love the taste of Pepto Bismol. And up there, it's got it's own little industry.
We tried to hit one of the grocery stores we'd go to to pick up some regional snacks. I picked up some Middleswarth bags and Birch Beer for the long trip home (Middleswarths is your GOD). We decided to putter around some more old haunts, and try to find Dean's old workplace. Dean had tried several times last time he was up to find his old work, but couldn't because North Atherton had changed so much since we'd been there. IT took a LOT of backtracking, but we DID find it, no thanks to the city planners. Afterwards we went to Mike's Movies and Music and grabbed some menus from DP Doughs, another local haunt of ours. Everythings a haunt around here. :)
After all the running around, we'd decided we were done for the day, came back to the hotel and had a wonderful night's sleep (after I kissed the ground, thankful I was back in town)....
