Cooperstown, NY

May 29th and 30th, 2005

After running around like crazy people for the week leading up to the wedding, we slowed things way down. We took an extra day to stop in Cooperstown on the drive back to Rhode Island. Unfortunately, the radio fuse in the car blew out, so we had a four-hour drive with no music. But this gave us a good chance to decompress and review everything we had just been through.
"Wow... We really pulled it off."

"Yeah."

There’s a reason you take a nice long vacation after your wedding. You’re exhausted. You need a chance to reset your brain. And you really don’t get to spend much time with your spouse in the week leading up to the wedding. It’s your first chance to actually see each other. A little road trip was a good way to shift gears.

The town of Cooperstown, New York is a beautiful place. Maybe you should go sometime, no?

We stayed at The Inn at Cooperstown. The building beautiful example of Second Empire architecture! (whatever that means...)

There's also that baseball thing. The whole town is geared around the Hall of Fame. It's not just about respecting the history of the game. It's about the colors.

"You going out without your hat?"

"Yeah, I should probably get it."

"You don't want to be seen without your gang colors."

"Right."

I estimate the crowd was 50% Yankee fans, 30% Red Sox fans, 10% Mets fans, and 10% other. I held my head up high in my red hat with the bright blue "B". Nobody messed with me. Especially the day after the Red Sox put the smack down on the Yankees.

We also ran into not one, but TWO groups of people we knew from our wedding at the Hall of Fame. Thanks guys. Newly married couples LOVE to feel like they're being followed...

We paid a visit to the Farmers' Museum before we left town. It’s kinda like Sturbridge Village, only in upstate New York. There’s olde time churches. Shops. A bunch of stone buildings. Barns. And animals that are happy to pose for pictures.


(Additional photography by J. Canole)