Hilary Mcrae’s First Music Video

I happened to come upon this video and after doing some research I found out that she just had her first album “Through These Walls” release a while ago. She’s an up and comer so I will promote her on my blog. Plus it does help that she’s got that cute girl next door look. She’s from NJ and this song is called “Every Day”. You can hear her entire album on last.fm, link here.

Vacation Day 2: Waterfalls, Hiking and Bowling

My goal for day two was to simply forget about the stress of Day 1 (see lost bag in Day 1) and just continue to try and enjoy myself. The weather was still a bit annoying since it was raining on and off but I decided to take a risk and go to out and get some stuff done and see what else is in store here in Tannersville. This was my second day in the Poconos so I was in the same hotel, The Chateau.

Bushkill Falls:
The entry fee was $8 per person for the trail and hiking. They have four trails, some are as short as 15 minutes and the longest is just over 2 1/2 hours. I decided to go in between and take the yellow trail, which was about 1 1/2 hours. Of course my g/f isn’t much of a hiker so it took some convincing. The waterfalls here are simply beautiful and a must-see. I was both scared to death and amazed at the shere awesomeness that is a waterfall. We got pretty close to it and took a ton of pictures. (5/5)

After that, the trail became a bit less frightening. I hiked about 2 miles and saw a nice river as I did so. There were a lot of stairs and wooden bridges involved and needless to say, my g/f and I got a good work-out.

Callie’s Pretzel Factory:
While on my way back I saw this pretzel and candy factory and we decided to stop in and check out their pretzels. A few minutes later I walked out with a pretzel filled with baked apple and another with chocolate covered over it. (4.5/5)

Mountain Lanes Bowling:
In the evening, after my long day and dinner, I decided to go out and go do some bowling… for the first time in my life. I’ve never bowled before so I figured this would be a good time since the rain was coming down now and indoor activities were the only thing to do. (5/5)

Big Daddy’s:
This restaurant was pretty close and just up the road from us. I looked them up online and the reviews were pretty good so I said SHOOT. I ordered some chicken and risotto and it was fantastic. The problem here was the extremely rude employees who were vacuuming in the back of the hotel. I couldn’t hear myself think once they started vacuuming. I was hoping it would stop after a few minutes, but ten minutes later, I left in disgust. (4/5 for food, 1/5 for service)