Showing posts with label tour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tour. Show all posts

Thursday, October 28, 2010

The Not-So-Spooky Halloween Cemetery

Again, first things first:

1) As many of you know, I'm job hunting after moving to Rochester.  So, I've put my resume off to the left side of the blog at the top.  I've also started another blog, which essentially is just my resume at: www.MikeKrausResume.blogspot.com in case you know of anyone hiring.

2) Like me on Facebook is also to the left.

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Rich, Megan and I headed over to Mount Hope Cemetery for some historic Rochester fun.  If you're in town or interested in more info, you should check out Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery at www.fomh.org/, which gave us our tour.  It's the first municipal cemetery in the United States and this is a pic of the gatehouse.  

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Since cemeteries use to double as city parks, this gazebo was a place to hang out 

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Some fall colors with Mt. Hope's "permanent residents"

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Rich and Megan listening to the tour guide

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Hiram Sibley.  It's not the department store guy Rochestarians.  This is the guy who started Western Union Telegraph.

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Keeney was the lucky guy who arrested Susan B. Anthony for voting.

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Here's the old gal; Susan B. Anthony.  Don't know who she is or why she's important; you should be ashamed and go to this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony

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Here's Frederick Douglass.  Again, if you don't know who he is or why he's important; you should question your educational background and go to this site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass

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George Ellwanger's grave.  Very fitting site since George use to own the property across the street, which grew pretty trees like you see here through the Ellwanger and Barry Company.

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The grave of Bausch and Lomb.  You know, the eye care folks

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Under the tree

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The chapel.  We were here for a couple hours and didn't even see half of this place.  It's 198-acres with a bunch of other people of local and national importance including George Washington's drummer boy...

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Rachel had to go home sick, which meant I had babysitting duties last week.  So, once we completed her homework, we played Candyland, Barbie, fixed a projector, and had an intellectual conversation about Spongebob Squarepants

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Rachel as the afro-airplane!

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Megan and I went to St. Bonaventure University near the southern border of New York state to watch a soccer game with her friend Liz, who's sister is the "Bonnie's" assistant coach

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The Bonnies beat Dayton

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Liz and Megan

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See this Ewok/Gremlin looking thing?  It's named Gertie and we took care of her for a few days and sometimes she liked it because we played with her.  Sometimes she didn't when she seemed to try to spite me by peeing on the floor.  GERTIE!!!

Monday, August 2, 2010

Mike and Megan's Honeymoon: Day 12 - Well, the Honeymoon's Over...

July 9th

The day of reckoning is near. The honeymoon is almost over and time to get back to the real world...

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I swear they filmed this TV show for 24 hours. It's like a marathon of the Portuguese Regis and Kathy Lee

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Here they are. I love that they didn't bring a chair and table from a set. This was just from a local diner next door.

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The Portuguese Michael Jackson. We saw him walking around town quite a bit and they decided to put him on TV and dance. It was surreal because people were yelling "MICHAEL!" as if he really was Michael Jackson.

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Now to cross the river to get on one of these boats ourselves

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Enter Sandeman. These boats are known as Rabelos and were used to transport the wine from the Douro Valley, 60 miles away, to Porto. Now, it's tourists.

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Ponte Dom Luis by Teofilo Seyfrig from the 1880s. He was a student of Gustave Eiffel of Eiffel Tower fame

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Little French girls

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Living in Chicago, I've grown to learn what a body recovery from a river looks like. Someone jumped or was dumped it seems...

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Ponte Dona Maria Pia by Gustave Eiffel in 1877 with the Ponte S. João behind it.

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Constructed in 1991 as a modern railroad bridge

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Eiffel again

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Heading back to the Ribeira district

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The Serra do Pilar Monastery

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Still filming the TV show...

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A huge customs house

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Some church from the 1300s. Notice that they ran out of space for a road, so they just built a bridge running parallel to the land

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Ponte de Arrãbida opened in 1963

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Old mansion or something. They don't tear buildings down, they let things remain until someone wants it again. There's a lesson to be learned from that...

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Café Majestic is a very classy place. Too classy for us...

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What? Your building isn't at street level? Build a walkway so it is!

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Last kiss in Portugal after musicians played to us for dinner.

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Porto's airport from the future

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Lisbon (Lisboa) from the sky

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That's where we stayed. Just north of the perfectly squared streets of the Baixa district.

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Megan's sad that the honeymoon is over and we are heading back to the States. Apparently, I didn't get the memo and thought we were just going somewhere else that was awesome. We didn't and now my life is work and groceries again...

Thanks again to everyone for everything related to our wedding! Thanks to all the people who checked out all our honeymoon pics! Thank you thank you thank you!!!

Mike and Megan

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