Berne

Stephanie picked us up in Syracuse today, and we headed to Chloes grandfathers house in Berne after lunch in Syracuse. The house sits on a large plot of land and after getting a few warning barks from his dog, Tyke II, we headed down

to a pond that he had built not very long after buying the property. The pond's temperature has been rising steadily unfortunately and as a result most of the Trout that he had stocked the pond with are now dead. I did see a few of them jump out of the water towards the middle of the lake though.



On the way down I found out that he had been on the team at general dynamics which designed the F16, which I thought was pretty cool. He also was on the F111 team. From the pond, we bushwhacked down to the stream


which had tons of perfect paving stones. I wish we had stones like that in the little bear creek!

After another session of bushwhacking in which i miraculously did not contract poison ivy,

we climbed the final hill back to the house


And talked for a while before heading to Syracuse to meet up with Christa and have dinner.