My friends, Donna and Carla, flew from Chicago on Wednesday to take a little trip with me to the Finger Lakes. Our destination....Geneva NY at the top of Seneca Lake. At forty miles long, Seneca Lake is the largest of the Finger Lakes. We planned to sightsee and visit the wineries that surround the lakes.
They got to Buffalo at noon. I picked them up and we headed directly to Wegmans. Donna has visited me before and got to see the glorious Wegmans. Carla had not visited Buffalo and was anxious to see Wegmans. She was duly impressed.
We bought several kinds of salads and brought them back to my house for lunch on the patio. Then we loaded up the car and headed for Geneva via Route 20...the scenic route. Unfortunately there were two detours on the scenic route which added an extra half hour to our trip. We arrived around 5:00 in Geneva, checked into our Hampton Inn and walked across the street to the Ramada Inn where we had a cocktail on the patio on Seneca Lake.
Then dinner at Nonna's Trattoria. I had beans, greens and homemade gnocchi. It was delicious. We split a bottle of Fox Run Chardonnay.
After dinner we walked the historic downtown area but it was dead on a Wednesday eve. So we took a drive along the lake to check out some of the wineries we wanted to visit. It was dark and we could hardly see anything but we did locate a couple of places. The desk clerk had told us that all the wineries closed at 5:00 pm. We had wanted to buy a bottle to drink in the room that night. We took her at her word. We subsequently found the next day that this wasn't so. Some of them closed later and we could have bought a bottle that evening. We stopped in at Wegmans again...this time to buy some fancy chocolate bars. Then we went back to our hotel and went to bed bringing our Day 1 to a close.
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girlfriends, chocolate, wine, and water? all in one trip? wish I could come with you, too.
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