civilized ku # 1115 - 17 ~ horses, history, and health

Painted horse ~ Saratoga Springs, NY • click to embiggen
A spa building ~ Saratoga Springs, NY • click to embiggen
Gideon Putnam Hotel ~ Saratoga Springs, NY • click to embiggenYou may have noticed a few recent entries - there are a few more to come - with pictures that were not made in the Adirondack PARK but rather in Saratoga Springs, NY. That's because the wife and I spent last Thursday - Sunday in Saratoga Springs.

Saratoga Springs bills itself - on all of the Welcome to Saratoga Springs signs - as the home of Horses, History, and Health. The Horses part is all about racing. The History part is a lot about the Battle of Saratoga, the turning point in the Revolutionary War wherein we kicked those aled-up Limey arses good. The Health part is all about the many natural mineral springs located in and around the village.

The wife took a mineral water bath at the Roosevelt Baths & Spa in the Saraotga Spa State Park which is also home to the Gideon Putnam Hotel - named after one of the village founders - where we stayed. I would have liked to have taken a mineral water bath but reservations were very hard to obtain and the only one available during our stay was at the same time I was busy winning a golf outing/tournament* on the Saratoga Spa GC, which is also located in the same state park.

*note to wife - OK, already. So what if my fellow competitors were just a bunch of crummy lawyers (NYS Bar Association - Labor and Employment Division)? I kicked their litigious asses good.