Around this time last year we noticed several grape pie and grape sellers along the main street of on of our local towns. I did a google search to find this town hosts a very large fall grape festival and pie contest. If you have never heard of grape pies it's ok, neither did…
Lamberton Conservatory
While my parents were here for Christmas we took them on several outings. One, during our day in Rochester was to Highland Park the largest (150 acres) and probably most well known park in Rochester. It holds many city festivals including the annual BBQ (for Festival and Lilac Festival, both of which L and I…
Celebrating 3 Years
Luke and I have been married now for three years. They have been full of adventure, challenges, and changes, many of which I have put on this blog, but we are glad we have gone through them all together. To celebrate we went to see the musical broadway tour of Newsies in Rochester. We also…
Summer Lovin’ Date Night
To recap you may wonder what fun activities we have done this summer? To be fair a good portion of them have been spent working on our garden and porch area. But I thought I'd review some of our better summer date nights. The Drive-in. L and I went to Vintage drive in Avon to see…
Field Lacrosse Game
A few months ago L and I decided to go to a professional box lacrosse game downtown Rochester. It was a great learning experience for me and a lot of fun too. After enjoying our groupon for the box lacrosse game we decided to get tickets to a professional field lacrosse game in order to…
Rochester Box Lacrosse
I had never watched a lacrosse game before, never known anybody who even played lacrosse until moving to the East Coast. Now that we have been here for two and a half years we thought it was time I experienced this sport. So we bought a groupon for a local match between Rochester's Knighthawks and the New…
Black Creek Park: Orienteering 101
This past weekend we went to our first Rochester Orienteering Club . We decided to join the Orienteering Club after attending the Winter Festival back in January. L and I thought it would be a good chance for us to explore the parks/trails where we live and get to know others who enjoy getting out…
Rochester Museum and Science Center
For Ls birthday we decided to explore the Rochester Museum and Science Center. The museum had a traveling display of a few of Da Vinci's writings and inventions we were interested in; as well as we wanted to check out the closest science museum. L and I have enjoyed several science museums in the…
Museum of Play
A few weeks ago L's brother and family came to stay with us for the weekend on their way to New York City. We tried to think of what to do with them in this very snowy season and decided to talk them to Strong's Museum of Play in Rochester. We had heard it was…
WinterFest
When I saw there was an outdoor winter festival in Rochester I thought L and I could check it out. L and I decided to go to Mendon Pond Park: winterfest near Rochester. Winterfest is an outdoor festival put on by several Rochester organizations. It is a very popular event that has more than 5,…