My parents came into town on the 19th and after hours of catching up, eating dinner, and sharing a few early gift surprises Luke and I gave them their Christmas card. The card explained their Christmas Present: a trip to the Corning Glass Museum and chance to make one of their own Christmas ornaments at the…
Oh Christmas Tree . . .
Whether you decorate with a specific color scheme, use garland and tinsle, or put an angel, star, or santa hat on top retrieving and decorating Christmas trees is a tradition everyone does in slightly different ways. For some it is time to get out the artificial tree and assemble others will go cut their own…
A Taste of Home
During the past almost year of living New York, there have been several missed elements from my home state of California (for some see I miss my old life). One of the items in short supply (or quality) is Mexican food. I was spoiled in SoCal. Mexican restaurants are more plentiful than Mcdonalds'. Each restaurant…
Harvest Music Festival
We had a blustery start to Autumn this weekend, gray clouds, wind blowing leave off the trees, and rain showers. Still we decided to take a walk and risk getting wet to check out the Harvest Music Festival downtown Corning. Each year to kicks off the fall season the Riverfront Centennial Park hosts a Jazz/Music…
Cabin Fever
Every year during the dead of winter the Gaffer District hosts Cabin Fever: a wine/beer tasting event hosted in the storefronts along Main Street. This year Cabin Fever was postponed because of a snow storm, leaving us stuck inside for the month of February (ironic ? yes). So we anxiously waited for the chance to…
Sorge’s: local food and wine
This past holiday weekend (federal=holiday for us) we went to an Italian restaurant in the Gaffer District called Sorge's. We were given a gift card to this local family-run business by close friends of Luke. Open for 62 years, Sorge's is known for their homemade pasta. In fact in the summer of 2011 they made it into…
My new hometown
Luke and I love to explore but sometimes for cost sake it's better to stay local. Yet in this still very winter weather, no matter how tempting, we don’t want to get stuck inside. Fortunately we live in Corning. Spending more time close to home, I realized I haven’t blogged about my new hometown. (As…
2300 degrees
Since we didn't get much of a vacation over the holidays, Luke decided to take a few days off of Martin Luther King Jr. weekend. For our first day off, Thursday January 17th, we decided to go to 2300 degrees. 2300 degrees is a free event sponsored by the Corning Glass museum every third Thursday…
