Photos for Part 1 of my spring vacation

You want more photos? I got more photos! However, I should note that we were at Cornell at the least pretty time of year ( The best time is the Fall! ). None of the trees have leaves yet, and there isn't any pretty snow on the ground.

Corn Nuggets!!!


Peter and me at the burger joint in Collegetown.


Example of the prison-style anti-suicide fences that were placed on all the bridges.


The fence obscures nice views like this one ( We stuck the camera lens through a gap in the fence to get this shot ).


Ho Plaza


They didn't bother to put a fence on this little bridge.


The boys outside the A.D. White Library.


The inside of the A.D. White Library.


"The Fishbowl" at Uris Library. I did a lot of studying in this room back in the day. The room was pretty much empty on this day because it was the Sunday at the end of Spring Break.


Ezra Cornell


Andrew Dickson White.
See those red and white footprints? They lead from the Ezra Cornell statue to the Andrew Dickson White statue. The statues sit about 200 feet from each other on the Arts Quad ( Where most of the original academic buildings sit on campus ). There is a legend that if a virgin every walks between the statues when the clock strikes midnight, the statues will get up and switch places. Of course, this has never happened. ;)

The boys had all sorts of fun running from one statue to the other along the footprints. I think they did this about 7 or 8 times.


Our hotel room.


Peter looking out the window of our hotel room.


Michael having fun with science!


Another prison fence on a bridge.


The view from the bridge. There's no fence on the little bridge in this photo, but by the next day, they had closed that bridge down for the rest of the semester.


Michael and me walking towards Ruth's old dorm ( Balch Hall ).


Waterfall at dusk. This was taken from the little bridge I mentioned two photos earlier.


Obligatory shot of McGraw Tower.


Peter going to town on some ice cream at Okenshields.


Michael was really full after eating a MASSIVE amount of food, but ...


... there's always room for ice cream!


Prison fences on the suspension bridge.


View from the suspension bridge.


Ho Plaza at night ( Actually this was taken at about 5 in the morning. Ruth woke up early on Tuesday, couldn't get back to sleep, and decided to go outside and take some photos ).


Ho Plaza early in the morning on Tuesday.


McGraw Tower on Tuesday morning.


Another McGraw Tower shot.


Michael and me in a Physics lecture hall, just after class ended. The lecture notes ( about inducing currents ) were still projected on the screen. I was answering Michael's questions about magnetism.

OK, now I'm going to cheat a little bit. The photos below were not taken on our recent Cornell trip. They were taken in June of 2004, when we visited Cornell for Ruth's 10th reunion. I just wanted to post a few shots to show what Cornell looks like when the trees have leaves and the sky isn't always overcast.


Michael and me at Ho Plaza.


McGraw Tower in nice light.


View of the Arts Quad from the top of McGraw Tower ( The big white tents and the vans were there for reunion events ).


Baby Michael having fun at Cornell.



A Cornell gorge with green trees.


Sunset on North Campus.

Rich