Tuesday, July 22, 2014

New York Country Mice

Our little rental car brought us upstate 2 hours to the Matises farm!

Dinner on White Lake with Lynn and Art, aka: grandma and grandpa.
 
Beautiful, lush, quiet farm life.

We consider ourselves "country mice" living here in Tahoe, but this is the REAL country with tractors driving by all the time. 
Chocolate pony lollipop snack at a gorgeous pony farm the next day.

 
Frankie!

There are so many lakes around this area!

A little mini golf - check out that form!!

















He's obviously watched Tiger sink a few putts...


Great open spaces...
And ponies, ponies, ponies!

These horses got a LOT of carrots this past week.


Kenzo loved driving the tractor and helping grandpa with farm chores.


Yummy dinner at our favorite Greek restaurant, complete with Aunt Patty and...
 
...Uncle Brant!

 
Outside the restaurant, Kenzo was invited to sit on a Harley.

Do you think he is just a bit excited??















More ice cream. Busted.

Another day, another tractor.

 
Our hard working little farmer dude.
Funny, with all those horses around, we had to go to another farm to ride one!

Yes, this is Frankie from the above photo.

Yummy, HUGE dinner at Eric's old favorite, Frankie & Johnny's.

 
Kenzo placed his bet at the Monticello Raceway.

We came in dead last.

Our favorite horse, Max, had an infected hoof, so was on barn rest.

Don't worry - he got extra carrots! 
Another day, another fire station.

 
"Scary guy" sculpture at dinner.
One more of Max.

He was so sweet, resting his head low and still so Kenzo could scratch him.
For those of you keeping count, that's three tractors and three ice cream treats.

Freckles. "Like mommy."















We also went to the Forestburgh Playhouse to see a production of "Beauty and the Beast."

Great old barn-like theater, with gorgeous gardens outside.
 Soft Bear was really enjoying himself on this trip.
The cast signed autographs and posed for pictures after the performance.

Kenzo liked the Beast and Gaston the best!









 




And one last clip from driving around on the windy, curvy country roads. 
He said the same thing on the airplane when we would hit a bit of turbulance! 

A great trip to NY - we all had a blast!



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