It is finally and truly spring here. Once spring comes so do the festival, one or two every weekend. This past weekend L and I celebrated another semester of teaching over by going to the Rochester Lilac Festival. This is the largest Rochester city festival lasting two full weeks and weekends. It takes place at Highland Park…
Playing tourist with the Grandparents
It's always fun when family come in from out of town; we love to play tourists and being hosts. The season they come during and their personal interests determine which types of activities and locations we get to share with them. This past week my grandparents (dad's parents) came into town for a visit on…
Ithaca-fest
In the summer time here in the Finger Lakes there is at least one ( if not many) festivals every weekend. So there is no way to check everything you want to out all in one year. Last year we stayed local and went to Glassfest for the weekend of Memorial Day. For more on…
Belated Birthday Outings
As I mentioned on Saturday Luke was out of town for his birthday so we put off birthday celebrations until he got home on Friday. On Friday I made him one of his favorite desserts: cinnamon rolls (see Bread of the month: Irish Cinnamon Rolls). Then to continue the celebration had him open b-day cards…
Taste of Ellicottville
After a week back home re-seettling into our normal routine, we realized we had an long standing plan to go with a co-worker of Luke's and his wife to a tasting festival Saturday in Ellicottville. We had high hopes for this tasting event, enough to make it worth getting up early on our day to…
Racefever and local BBQ
Last Thursday Luke and I decided instead of hitting the treadmill at the Y we would go on a walk downtown to check out Racefever. We weren't completely sure what Racefever was exactly celebrating. But we know we live very close to Wakins Glen, a city on the waterfront of Seneca lake that is…
Two festivals and Korean BBQ
Every three months or so we find ourselves driving the hour and forty five minutes north to Rochester. Whether it is to get some grocery goods, or eat a meal out we can't get locally, or to go to a big event it's worth the drive. Although we drove up to go kayaking (see kayaking…
Stars Hollow, Fireworks, and Minions: Holiday Weekend in review
As I mentioned in my 4th of July post Luke had a four day weekend! Instead of traveling or packing up the camping gear we decided to stay local so Luke could get a lot of "Luke time" (aka play computer games and not think about work) at home. So instead we explored nearby for holiday weekend…
An Ithaca birthday adventure
As I mentioned on my birthday, this past weekend we took a trip to the college town Ithaca for some summer b-day fun. We got moving slowly in the morning because we went to the local drive-in theatre Friday night and didn't get to sleep until 2:30am. Fortunately Luke made us some irish cream lattes…
Wait-barley free means no beer . . . Right? aka A Chemistry lesson for a Birthday present
So let me first answer the question: Wait-barley free means no beer . . . Right? This is the first thing people ask me when they find out about my allergy. It was hard news for my ex-bartender boyfriend (now husband) from the micro-brewing region of Oregon. Suddenly I could no…
