Last night we decided to pick up the rental car at 8:00 in the morning which Patti and I did. Brad was having a hard time remembering what time we were planning on coming back to pick him up so Andy gave him a gentle reminder.
We picked him up and did the usual trip to Walmart to provision. We really stocked up as this is probably the last chance we will have before entering Canada and with the prices you want to buy as little as possible while there.
We came back, unloaded and picked Andy up. Our first stop was about 20 miles away in Hyde Park. It is the former home of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. We toured the Visitor Center and Patti had a nice garden side chat with the guests of honor.
This was the first Presidential Library.
Their home sits high above the Hudson River.
This was a sign that I remember seeing as a child and it frightened me every time I saw it.
The Carriage House sits beside the house
in Eleanor’s beloved rose garden.
They are both buried in the rose garden.
These statues sit behind the Presidential Library and are made from remnants of the Berlin Wall.
Our next stop was about two miles away to the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). This was a fantastic stop for the foodies that we are. It was established in 1946 to provide culinary training to World War II veterans. It moved in 1972 to its present location in a former Jesuit seminary. Today there are approximately 2,800 students enrolled at one time.
This picture is outside their reception area
and this is inside.
As you take your student guided tour you pass many working classrooms.
Their grounds are amazing.
The campus includes such areas as the Durkee Herb Garden
where even their planters are potted with herbs and this one with tomatoes
and the Conrad Hilton Library.
The college operates five student-staffed restaurants. The one below is their Italian restaurant.
We ate at St. Andrews cafe and the meal was truly outstanding.
Some of their distinguished alumni include Cat Cora, Todd English and Sara Moulton. It is truly a food lovers paradise and we were really pleased that we went.