June 25 Myer House and Cherry Hill

So today was a nice day, we went into Albany to visit the Myers House; which was a headquarters for the Underground Railroad. It is a work in progress, there is still a lot of reconstruction work to be done. It is run by a small organization to preserve the house. On the side of the house, there were gardens, that were set up the way the house was. The plants where set up in a way that the plants were things that would be found in that room. For example, there was cilantro and basil where the kitchen would have been. My favorite plant was the tiger lilly. They were the flowers that I used for prom and I think they are just soo pretty.

Myer house

Myer House Garden

There was a little mix up with our lunches, we didn't order box lunches for today, so we had to go back to campus for lunch. We just went to Buchman, it was nice. We met up again to go to Cherry Hill. This was a house that belonged to the Van Rennselear family. This family was royalty during their time. The house was in the process of being restored. We were showed pictures of the house before the work was done; the house was in rough shape from the amount of weight that was in the attic. The main support beams were rotted out and the walls were supporting the weight of the house. 

Cherry Hill

After our tour, we walked up to the gardens, they were very nice. After we left, we took a ride to Snowman's to get ice cream. Michael was nice enough to buy it for us. I got what I normally get when I get ice cream, a vanilla cone with cherry dip. Today was another short day, and I got home at a decent time. This is my final blog post, sooo sad. It has been real Discovery Degree...until next time.