Monday, May 30, 2005
Chautauqua
This is a picture that I took this weekend of my brother, his wife, and their three kids....I really do love Western New York State. (For those of you not from New York State, just imagine that I said "Upstate New York".) If you've never been to Central or Western New York, you really must visit one of these days. It's a nice, quiet, relaxing, and beautiful place to go. The land is mostly rolling hills in quiet farmland ... and around many corners are small to medium lakes. You'd almost think you're in Minnesota or something. (I didn't take this picture ... but it is of Chautauqua Lake.)
I spent the weekend at Chautauqua Lake with my family. We decided to treat my mom to a weekend there in honor of her 70th birthday (sorry, Mom ... the secret had to get out sometime!) We rented a cottage for the Memorial Day weekend, and Mom joined my brother and his family (wife and three kids ... and I DID take this picture). Aren't they cute!!??
My mom and dad used to have a small summer place on Chautauqua Lake (if you're familiar with the area, they were about 5 miles from the Chautauqua Institute, toward Stow). Chautauqua has, for years, been a favorite of my mother's.
We had a great weekend ... the weather was much nicer than forecasted. We played with babies, we fished off the dock (I even caught two little ones while holding my brother's pole while he took care of a 3-year-old's need for a bathroom break), we played pinochle (a favorite of my family), we went to a local mini-amusement park, went to numerous playgrounds, we went for ice cream, we visited my mom's former neighbors, did a small amount of shopping, played in the sand, and did lots of other fun family-ish things. I had a blast ... and am now exhausted!!It was fun ... and brought back a lot of memories of family vacations when we were little. We used to go to one of the "Finger Lakes" (farther East), Honeoye Lake. This weekend, we did a lot of things with the boys that our parents did with us when we were little. When I was taking pictures of my nephews (lots and LOTS of pictures!!), I was thinking about pictures that I've seen of my brother and I with our family at Honeoye. It was kind of cool. :-)
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