katiebakes:

I have several ties to non-NYC New York so I loved this article and slideshow about hiking in the Lake Placid area.

We slept like Rockefellers in luxuriously comfortable double beds and in the morning stepped out onto our little balcony as the sun rose over the lake.

Slept like Rockefellers. That’s perfect, right?

Oh my goodness. This exact hotel is where my parents took my brother and I on one of our Lake Placid family skiing trips. I remember sitting there, antsy at the early meal (no kids allowed at the later meal), and my brother, who had ordered Sprite to drink, sitting there horrified at the over-attentive waiter who kept pouring water in his soda everytime he would drink a little down.

Later, fireworks would happen over the frozen lake outside.