Fairport, NY

Most of us slept in on Wednesday, September 26 after our night of birthday revelry.  It was a rainy, dreary day.  As always, Jonny awakened first and kindly went out to get bagels.  He proceeded to make a lovely breakfast of bagels, lox and cream cheese and we leisurely ate while waiting for the heavy rain to let up.  Our plan was to take a short cruise to the village of Fairport on the other side of Rochester.  But we had to wait for David’s sister Ann to bring the long-lost insulin and the backpack we had left at the museum in Buffalo.  In the meantime, we took turns walking up to the library next to the town dock that shared a building with the local Starbucks. There was a book sale going on and Addie and Lynn each bought a couple of books.  

Ann arrived around two in the afternoon with our packages and needless to say, Jonny was very relieved to finally recieve that life-saving medicine!  We had a cozy lunch of chili and salad and by 3:50 the rain had stopped and we took off for our short cruise to Fairport.  We passed under a low bridge that clearly indicated where we should go.

 We had a very fun time while underway raucously singing Jonny’s new favorite song, Erie Canal.  Here is the chorus:

      Low bridge, everybody down,

      Low bridge, we’re coming to a town.

      You’ll always know your neighbor and you’ll always know your pal

      If you’ve ever nav-i-gated on the Erie Canal!

And for the record, Jonny has been singing that song for the last 10 days at least!

We tied up at a town dock before the bridge because we didn’t make it in time for the bridge-tender to open the bridge.  If we had, we would have had a better berth closer to the restrooms and the main part of the village.  Jonny and Lange went across the bridge to check out the facilities.

Afterwards, we all went for a stroll around the attractive village of Fairport, a suburb of Rochester. It is known as the Crown Jewel of the Erie Canal and has a population of 5,353.  Fun fact - Henry DeLand, a prominent citizen from Fairport was the same DeLand who was a founder of Stetson University, became a big developer in Florida, and has a town named after him there. 

We stopped at a local bar for beers and kambucha (a new experience for Lynn) and chatted with the bartender and her husband.  He was quite the expert on kambucha and could have been a contestant in Key West’s annual Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest!

We didn’t get out of there until later and eventually found another bar where we had a bite of dinner.  It was another lively late night with good friends!