So, after talking about it all year, Brad and I finally made a visit to my paternal grandparents in Rochester, New York for the Labor Day Weekend. My dad and brother, Scott, even tagged along with us!
We left Thursday night - on a red eye flight from LAX - and spent Friday afternoon/evening catching up at my grandparents house, then headed out to dinner and ended the evening with all of us falling asleep on the couch as we tried to watch a movie.
Then on Saturday, the 4 of us took a road trip to Canada to see Niagara Falls and do some wine tasting at the local Canadian wineries. Their speciality is ice wine - which is more of a dessert wine that's made from frozen grapes. Very tasty!
Sunday, we visited Lake Ontario in Charlotte (pronounced Char-Lot, not Char-Let) where we attempted family photos as the wind blew our hair of our style. After the lake, we drove back and forth between an ice cream parlor and burger restaurant (because someone couldn't make up their mind....dad), but this merry-go-round trip let us scope out the beautiful lake front homes twice and also gave Brad a chance to decide for sure which one he was going to buy. (As a second home, of course...)
Spaghetti dinner was on the menu for that evening, followed by a somewhat early ending to the night since we had a 4:15am wake-up call for our 6:15am flight.
One of the funniest moments of the weekend - besides my Papa cheering (jokingly...I think) the fact that we were finally leaving - was the 51-year-old receptionist at our hotel calling our early morning cab. Right after busting out Sugarland's 'Stuck Like Glue' to prove she had a good early-morning-wake-up-call voice, she proceeded to joke over the phone with the cab company with lines like:
"Hey, this is Sugarland calling and I need a cab"
"What do I look like? Honey, I'm 51-years-old!"
"Well, what are you wearing?"
Thanks to Papa & Gramma Billie for a wonderful holiday weekend!
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