Tour of the Hudson Valley/ハドソンバリーへ

Today we decided to put our State Parks Pass to good use and we headed about an hour north of the city into the Hudson River Valley area...it always amazes me how different just 30 miles from New York City the scenery becomes...we decided this would be a sort of exploratory journey as we had never visited these State Parks before and weren't sure what we would find...the weather called for near 90 degrees so our first stop was Harriman State Park where I researched their three lakes with swimming and settled on Lake Welch, the largest one with a 1/2 mile long beach...
今日は１時間ぐらい北にある県立公園に行く事に...３０分離れるだけでニューヨーク市と全然景色が変わるのが少し不思議。今日は気温が３２度近くになるはずだったからまず最初に大きな湖が３っつあるうちのウェルチ湖ハリマン県立公園に行く事に。

We thought there would be some hiking trails and shade around for Madison, but it turned out to just be a parking lot and then the beach and Madison got hot so quickly so we left after about five minutes (that is the good thing about not paying, you don't care how long you stay) and headed to the next State Park I read about Bear Mountain State Park...after a scenic drive through the hills we ended up following signs to some Tower that I can't remember the name of but said it offered the best views in the Hudson Valley, so we wound up the mountain to check it out...
マディソンのためにハイキング用の道や木陰があると思っていたら駐車場と湖の浜しかなかったので着いて５分後ぐらいに次の県立公園へ向かう事に...景色を見ながらくねくねした道を上った後ベアマウンテン県立公園に行く途中にあった看板を辿って３６０度の景色が見える塔に寄る事にしました。

The view from inside the Tower was pretty nice...
塔からの景色はなかなか良かったよ...
The view from outside was even better...
外からの景色はもっと良かった...　

The brochure said on a clear day you could see into four states...Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
天気の良い日はここから４州(コネチカット、ニュージャージー、ニューヨーク、ペンシルベニア)見れるらしい...

Mommy apparently thought her loved ones faces were better than the scenery outside...
景色をわすれて大事な家族の写真を撮っているママ...

We do make a cute couple :-)
可愛い２人：）

On the way out of the park I turned the wrong way and 1o miles later we ended up at one of our favorite outlet malls that we had known we were close too, but didn't plan on going to...after finding an 80% off sale at Diesel, it was one of our best wrong turns ever!!
帰る途中に曲がる道を間違えて１０マイル逆方向にある一番大きいアウトレットに寄る事に、行くつもりじゃなかったんだけどどうせだからと...ディーゼルで８０%オフと寄って良かった!!