Two kids, two adults and a huge, stunning state to explore - from Lake George, to the Adirondack mountains and on to Niagara Falls
February 12, 2020 - 21:18 GMT Sophie Vokes-Dudgeon The city of dreams. The city that never sleeps. Yellow taxi cabs, Central Park, sky scrapers, the Statue of Liberty. If these are the things that spring to mind when you hear the words New York, you won’t be alone. And they were certainly the things that sprang to mind for me, too, before I spent 10 days exploring the state which encompasses the city.
Our first evening in Upstate New York was spent in a shopping mall. It might sound an unlikely destination, but nowhere does shopping malls quite like the US, and Crossgates Mall is an ultimate example. The on-site Homewood Suits and Tru by Hilton is made for the shopping crazy – and one evening isn’t enough to really make the most of it. But if you want some shopping time on your US roadtrip, this is the place for you! The family suites are enormous and the shopping fantastic.
The mines are above the surface so very easily accessible and given the opportunity, the children would have spent all day smashing rocks apart in the hope of discovering a cluster of diamonds within. As it was, they had about an hour . The opportunity to pan for previously-mined diamonds, minerals and fossils is a little less physical – and making jewellery out of our findings was my favourite part.
The drive to Rochester is 2 hours but the promise of the ultimate play destination kept the kids intrigued – if a little concerned that they were too old for all that, I think. Turns out we’re never too old to play – and while the superhero exhibits enthralled the youngest, the teen and his dad had to be pulled out of the computer game zone where pretty much every retro game you can imagine is there to be tried.
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