Canandaigua Lake, New York

Just before the start of school we decided to take a break and get away. We had been thinking about doing something of the sort all summer but were unsure, when we finally decided to go ahead with it everything within a 3 hour radius was booked. We were only willing to go to safe states so Pennsylvania and New York seemed like our best bests. I expanded my search to the Finger Lakes district in Upstate New York and couldn't believe our lucky stars when I found a cute little place on VRBO in Canandaigua Lake with a pool! Yippee!!

It was approx 5 hours away.. so we thought to break up the trip with a horse back ride once we crossed into New York. We had never done one before and H is finally of a age where some companies allow him to ride a trail. Unfortunately it rained the whole afternoon.. so that was cancelled.. :(

Other than that little hiccup everything else was thankfully smooth sailing..

The House

We spent a lot of time in the pool.. well they did.. I spent a lot of time reading by the pool. It was a little cold but the kids didn't care.. they were so happy.. so we were so happy.

We played board games, watched movies, drank hot coco and popcorn and cuddled

Our only teeny tiny complaint would we that there were no restaurants that delivered. So we went to the nearby towns of Naples 15 minutes south and Canandaigua 15 minutes north of us to eat at the many restaurants. We even ended up dinning indoors a couple of times.. which we were initially very hesitant about but the tables were set far far apart, disinfected and it was all fine. 

While in the town of Canandaigua we stumbled upon a used book store, Papaperback Place..  

and we came home with 7 more books :)

We spent some of our morning at Kershaw Park on the northern most tip of the lake and then rented kayaks for an hour. This was D's first time being on his own kayak. H was with M on his kayak and I had my own. It was a beautiful day.

We were there for about 3 days.. on the way back we stopped in Corning to have lunch. We were in Corning last year and had heard a lot about the Corning Museum of Glass. Didn't had time to visit it then. Now we did :D

We spent way more time there then we had planned.. there were live demos.. very interesting. 

There was only one family per row.. very socially distant. And the glass artist had to use a air pump instead of blowing glass with his mouth. 

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