Albany, New York Visit

We spend about 5 weeks in the Albany New York area visiting family there, Joe has sisters, a cousin and an aunt in this area. So we had lots to do, and lots of family to visit with.
We had a great time while we were in Albany, and got to spend a lot of time with Joe's sisters and their families.

Cheryl and Chris took us to some free concerts in Albany called "Alive At Five" these are evey Thursday night during the summer months, and a lot of fun. We saw some good entertainment too, The Village People, Hotel California (tribute to the Eagles), The Neville Brothers, and Tower of Power. So we had a great time with them, always something to do.

They took us on the Albany Aqua Duck, it drives around town showing all of the great history then goes into the Hudson River for a short river cruise, and shows us things you cannot see from the land. That was a lot of fun as you can see from the pictures.

Joe and his nephew Christopher played golf a couple of times and had a good time, Christopher plays at several of the golf courses in the area and was able to get them a tee time. Joe was happy to get to play at all, it was raining a lot of the time we were there.

We went to the Saratoga Race Track a couple of times and bet (and lost) on the horses. What a beautiful track, beautiful horses, lots of people there and we had lots of fun.

Everyone loved our motor home and enjoyed hearing stories about our trips, even the smallest of our family members wanted to see all there was to see of our coach. Here are pictures of Joe showing our 7 year old twin grand nephews all about our service area. Joe's sister Luanne looks a little less interested, as she walks away from the lesson. Ha Ha.

Luanne and Joe have a beautiful patio, deck and pool area in their back yard, and of course we spent some time there too. The summer was very rainy this year, but there were some beautiful days while we were there, and we took advantage of every one of them. Here are a few pictures of everyone enjoying the pool at Luanne's.
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We had a wonderful visit with all of Joe's family in the Albany area, we always have a good time when we are there. When we left we were already planning our next trip, in two or three years. We may be back sooner, who knows, we always keep our plans flexible. We are heading to Niagara Falls, NY now for a few days, they on to visit friends in Pennsylvania.