Adventures of the Traveling Sisters

We had a lot of fun and did a lot of neat things while my mom and aunt were visiting. We started off on Sunday at Ithaca’s Farmer’s Market. This is such a fun outdoor market with not only fruit, veggies, and flowers, but also food vendors, wine tastings, boat rides, live music, and art stands. It’s a big deal and is three times a week (Sat, Sun, Thurs). We got there for the last hour and to our surprise, realized that they were actually having a local art show. It was really nice and I even got some contact info to possibly join it someday.

Next we headed to the Corning Museum of Glass. We've heard so many good reviews about this place, so Mike and I really wanted to go. My mom and aunt had actually been there several years ago, but it seemed to have changed a lot since then. It was really nice. I have never seen so much glass in my life. Every time you turned a corner there were thousands of more pieces to look at. A little over-stimulating, but interesting and beautiful all the same.

The classic "sister's pose" in front of a huge Dale Chihuly sculpture in the front of the museum.

Afterwards, we headed to Watkins Glen and had dinner at their local brewpub – Rooster Fish Brewing. Good eats and drinks. I tried to get a picture of the brewing area but it was pretty dark and my camera on my phone doesn't have a flash. Oh well - you'll just have to visit for yourself :)

Monday we headed to the Cornell Plantations. We had been there earlier in the summer - June I think - and it was amazing to see how much more colorful and how many more flowers were blooming since then. It really is such a beautiful place to visit.

After that we also did a quick visit to Buttermilk Falls and then to the Brewery to see Mike in action (he had to work). But then for dinner, we traveled up the west side of the lake to Taughannock Farms Inn.
I always wanted to go there since I worked at the park. It's up on the hill right next to Taughannock Falls State Park - it's an Inn but also serves very nice dinners too.
This is it from the outside:

View out to Cayuga Lake.

Mum & Aunt Nene

We had such a nice time together.
We were also lucky enough to have the two sisters visit us in DE last year. We did some fun things but definitely the highlight was visiting a teahouse in Milford. Good times as always - we miss you both and can't wait to do it again!

(just a side-note: Mike wasn't the one taking this picture - he chose to sit this one out :P )