Travelog for: Cool Jules

It was raining again here today! We're starting to wonder if mother nature doesn't want us to go outside. For dinner tonight Michele made grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. She said that it will keep us warm since the rain has made it cool here.

Today was a special day! We helped celebrate Riley's 2nd Birthday! Riley is Michele's Boston Terrier. He got a special cake with a ball on it. She said that it was safe for us to have some too. It was pretty yummy......But who celebrates a dog's birthday? 

A TV arrived today! We were excited to see who it was and it happen to be Michele's TV Tuffy. He's a cute little pup whose had some big adventures. Maybe he'll be around for a little while to tell us about his travels.

Another day of rain......I don't know how much more of this rain we can take. It was really scary because there was golf ball sized hail and we lost power for a little while. Michele said she's going to try and make it up to us. She can try but I don't know if she'll be able to.

For dinner we had homemade Beef Stew. It was delicious!!! Then as we said Michele said she was going to try and make it up to us for all the rain we've been having lately. So for dessert she brought us this big brownie thing. It was bigger than us but it tasted great. I can't even remember what we were mad about. 

Today a new TV arrived! It was none other than Jimbo Elephant. He's visiting NY as part of the USA TVT. We all look forward to getting to know him more.

Today we visited the Fort Stanwix Monument. It was very interesting to see and to learn the history of it.

Once we entered the fort there was a young man in tradition clothing who asked us if we wanted to watch a short film about the Fort. Of course we wanted to!

We learned a lot about the history of Fort Stanwix during our visit. Our host said she learned a lot as well. Too bad they weren't doing a reenactment this weekend. That would have been cool....

Today we took a short (1.5 hours) trip to Schenectady, NY to pick up Michele's sister. She wanted to come to Rome for a few days before school starts. When we got to Michele's step father's home we saw that he had a swimming pool......We all wanted to go swimming but Michele said that we didn't have the time.  She said maybe next time. Oh well it was worth a try.

Today a new TV arrived! We were all excited to see who it was.....It was Vicky Mouseham. She is a shopaholic and proud of it! I think her and our host will get along just fine. 

This evening we took a ride to Syracuse, NY. Our host was having an item held at the Yankee Candle in the mall so she had to go pick it up. But first we had to go to the gas station, then we hit the road. Syracuse is about 45 minutes to an hour from Rome so the ride was a little long and boring. We had to pay the toll before we could get off the Interstate.

Today another TV arrived! We were excited to see a new face. Everyone tried to guess as to who it might be....no one got it right.  It was none other than Crocs!

This evening we went to the drive in. Michele said that the drive in was closing for the season on Monday, September 1st and that we had better go before then. Tonight it was a triple feature although we only stayed for two movies. First we saw Kung Fu Panda then we saw Wall E. It was so much fun!!!

Today we said goodbye to Jimbo Elephant. He had to continue his journey on the USA TVT. We gathered around his travel envelope to say our goodbyes.