Another day in Albany New York.

Turns out the capital city is not that entertaining! We are located in an very industrial part of Albany. Well actually in Rensselaer NY, right across the river from Albany. We set out in the morning to do some serious provisioning and that took up on entire morning. During our trip around town, we saw nothing but cement and loads of overpasses.

Heck it's so busy here, they even started parking trucks on the roofs. 

All of this to say that we did no, nada, none, nien, Nr, aucun, sightseeing. We did however go for a ride to the locks and stage Stephanie's car a little farther down the path so that she could experience a lock or 2 with us. 

While we were checking out locks # 1,2 and 3 on the Erie Canal, we stopped to ask a local if he knew how to get off at one of the locks and return to a car. You see the US locks are very commercial and the security here is quite a bit tighter than the park like atmosphere of our park like pleasure craft locks in Canada. This Gentleman was delightful, but it took Jim a while to end this pleasant conversation. 

We then returned home and had another game night where the score was Steph- 106, Jim 58 and Mimi 34. Stephanie wants to play one more game tomorrow night so she can redeem herself!

So we have changed our plans ever so slightly to keep our baby with us and extra day. We will now go a huge 6 miles up the road to Waterford and go through the 1^st Federal lock, we will spend the night there and then on Wednesday morning, we will go through locks 2 and 3 and then drop Stephanie off at her car and continue on our merry way up the Erie Canal. Our next official stop will be Brewerton NY for a fill up before entering our Home Country again.

One last note before I leave you tonight. Our US cell phone needed to be renewed on the 19^th, given that we are only a few days from exiting the US, we have opted not to renew it, which means that the US number is no longer valid as of Tomorrow am. We will now be back on our Canadian Service and phone number. That is the second number listed on our card.

Good night all. 

Lock 2 on Erie Canal