Friday, June 16 - A Day in Amsterdam - NY!

Friday, June 16 - A Day in Amsterdam - NY!

The weather was yucky, and we were tired of locks, so decided to stay in Amsterdam until tomorrow.  Last night in the restaurant/office,  I picked up a menu and saw “Championship BBQ sandwich!  They said they opened at 11:00 and I was looking forward to eating a BBQ sandwich for lunch.  We walked up about 1:30, and there were chains with “Closed” signs on them. 

There is nothing around this dock, so we took the elevator and then the pedestrian bridge across the railroad tracks and the Interstate.  All we saw there was the back of a very large building, with one or two cars in the huge parking lot!  No doors, no signs, but we did see a guy come around a corner with a take-out bag in his hand.  As we rounded that corner, there was an unmarked door so we took a chance. We entered an empty mall.  Seriously, empty. 

There were no people in sight.  We stopped a security guy to ask about a place to eat, and he suggested Fresh Basil outside the far entrance to the mall.  We saw a Chinese restaurant over in a corner, but the cop said Fresh Basil was much better.  Walking the length of the empty mall was rather spooky.  There was an occasional office, but still no people! 

Fresh Basil was good, the waitress went ga-ga over our accent (she was from Florida), then talked about there being no sweet tea up here, even at McDonald’s.

Back through the empty mall and to the boat.

Danny kept thinking about Chinese take-out, so we called to place an order and went back to the spooky mall to pick it up. This was the only way from our boat to solid ground.

This time the door we used earlier was locked, so we had to walk all the way around the mall.  The lady at the restaurant counter told us, in her very broken English, that we had paid too much, we should have ordered the combo dinner instead of fried rice. She gave Danny a Pepsi because she felt bad.

We got some good pics on the way back to the boat.