Pierce Arrow Museum (6/27/2015)

Our campground here in Lockport, NY is pretty nice, grassy, spaces are wide, but they planted a tree in the middle of our spot so we couldn't put our awning out, and the door actually hits the leaves when we come out the door.  After our rain today, Joe came out without his raincoat and opened the door right into the tree, and got a drenching.

It rained a little during the night, but it wasn't raining when we got moving.  Dave and Mazie had plans to meet up with a friend who they knew from when they were selling their Missouri property a few years ago, so the other 4 Ruskateers headed off to Lockport to check out the Erie Canal boat ride, which we are doing tomorrow.  It started raining as we got there, and it rained the rest of the day.  But we all forged ahead, our next stop was the Pierce-Arrow Museum in Buffalo.  I'm sure Joe took a picture of every car inside here, but somehow I deleted most of the chip this morning, so I'll just post a few.

 

There were lots of other artifacts too, pedal cars (my kids had one of these), bicycles, and even a buffalo painted like Elvis. 

Frank Lloyd Wright had designed a gas station for one of the gas companies here in Buffalo.  It was very fancy and Write wanted $1750 for his design.  The company only had a $1000 budget for the design, so it never got built then.  It has been created inside this museum.  The car here was one of Frank Lloyd Wright's car, but they had repainted it orange.  The tour guide said he liked to drive around Phoenix in it, but it was bright red then.

Somehow I accidentally deleted the rest of the pictures from yesterday's camera chip (I didn't even get the Elvis buffalo, but I went online and found a picture of that).
But we did go on to another museum after a very nice lunch at Chef's (it was graduation day in Buffalo so we got to see lots of kids all dressed up in fancy dresses and white shirts and ties).

Our next stop was the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Historic Site, which was a guided tour of the house where Teddy Roosevelt took the oath of office after President McKinley's death.  (lost all of these pictures)

After we finished here, we drove around Buffalo a little, checked out the harbor but it was raining too much to enjoy it.  There was a naval & military park here and possible a navy ship we could have toured, but the weather did not cooperate.

We were so lucky to have had such a beautiful day yesterday to see Niagara Falls. Today it rained all day, was gray and wet and cool -- an unusual day for us Arizonans.  We've had our bedroom window open the last couple of nights, with the fan on.  But tonight, we had the furnace on, and it's supposed to only be in the 50s tomorrow.