Hyde Park

Before flying to Lithuania, we spent a couple of days with Denise and her husband Tom in Cold Spring, NY. The weather was very hot, so we spent some relaxing and refreshing time in their backyard pool. On Tuesday, we went to Hyde Park, NY (about 1 hour north of Cold Spring) to visit the Franklin Delano Roosevelt estate. We toured the house where FDR was born and lived most of his life, the stables, the rose garden, and the Presidential Library and museum. The house is larger now than when FDR was born because, as we learned, Franklin and Eleanor added 18 rooms to accommodate their "large" family. They had 5 children. I'm trying to imagine that conversation: "Honey, now that we have 5 kids, we should add 18 rooms to the house." Sounds reasonable, doesn't it?

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