A Trip to Lake Placid!

One of the places the DH and I went on our honeymoon was Lake Placid, New York. We stayed two nights in this beautiful hotel called the Mirror Lake Inn. It was amazing! The town of Lake Placid is tiny - with just one main street. The famous hockey arena is at the end of the street. I cannot imagine how this town fit all the Olympic athletes and spectators. The town of Lake Placid sits at the rim of Mirror Lake... Lake Placid is actually about 10 minutes away! Go figure?

We were able to have a tour of the Olympic areas and to watch some ski jumping action. Since we have been home watching the Winter Olympics, I decided to get out our honeymoon pictures and have a look. the pictures are not great and they were taken with this strange thing called film! Anyone remember that? The pics are from early October 2001. Hope you enjoy!

The entrance to the facilities:

One of the ski jumps:  

One of our Olympians practicing:

Practicing:

Perfect Landing! You can see there's no snow so they practice jumping into a swimming pool. The water is kept moving so they don't hurt themselves hitting a solid mass. Very cool indeed.

We were able to take the chairlift up to the top. The view was absolutely spectacular:

This last shot is for the ladies! This is the official medal podium used in the 1980 Olympics. Seems a lot less fancy than nowadays. This is the guy that we watched jumping. He came over and talked to us about his experiences.

 
 Wouldn't it be awesome to go to the Olympics one day in person?

Comments

[Susan]

We saw the Ski Jump in Oslo when we went to Norway 2008. We also went to the top, however, there was no ski lift. There was an elevator with a long line, and a set of stairs. The boys and I decided to take the stairs. NEVER AGAIN. We go to the top and our legs felt like Jello. We took the elevator down. An amazing view!

[Theresa]

OLYMPICS, OLYMPICS, OLYMPICS! I LOVE 'DEM!!!

And film?!?? What the heck is that?!! Never heard of it...

[Theresa]

Um, heck yeah!!!