We went in late May. (This is a bad time to go on a honeymoon, I guess, because wherever we went the weather was either totally freezing or totally hot and muggy -- crazy!) It was totally freezing that day. Misty and rainy and gray, just a miserable day, and the town looked so horrible and rundown. When we made our reservations the only nice-looking hotel we could find didn't have any free rooms, so we ended up at "the Bonnie Castle Resort". OMG! This place was horrible! The bathroom looked like it hadn't been cleaned since people liked Ike. The mattress was only slightly more comfortable than your average sheet of plywood. It was so cold we turned on the heat, and it smelled just awful, like something very hairy had just met a horrible death in the vents. I don't remember the name of the place where we went out to dinner, but it was very expensive and the food was awful. I ordered lasagna and I got a soup bowl swimming with watery tomato sauce with a few tough rubbery noodles and some very strange mysterious chunks of meat floating around. I don't remember what my husband got but it was terrible too. The bill was like over $60 and we had mainly just eaten the bread that came with dinner. We couldn't wait to leave.
What we didn't understand was how the town could be that horrible -- like you said, it was beautiful (even with the ugly weather). Good thing Louisa Boldt died young and didn't have to see what happened to the area. 
We fell in love with the playhouse at Boldt Castle, though. Someday when I am rich and famous I will build a house just like it -- WAY far away from Alexandria Bay. 
Well, anyway, I hope you start to feel better. Being miserable in general is a thousand times worse when you feel cruddy physically. I am kind of a hypocrite because I just quit my job so am not actually doing the struggle-to-cope-thing anymore (well, I've got two more days left) -- but, I did find it really helpful to give myself small treats to look forward to. i.e. a new song off iTunes, a good book to read, something yummy to eat, a new episode of "Lost", whatever. That way at least some of the "how am I ever going to get through this day" thoughts are replaced by the thought of something nice waiting for you. I guess my situation is a little different because I do really like my job and co-workers, it's just health-wise it's become impossible to carry on. I guess it's the whole "distraction with a shiny object" thing.
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jen
"It's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle -- to get one's head cut off." -- LC
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