Enjoy!

When we're on vacation, one thing is no different from when we're home. I get up way before everyone else. In this case, it's just the two of us, but the dynamic is the same, though the limitations of when you can get breakfast at a hotel limit how late things can go. So today we had breakfast at around 10. This unusually early wakeup led eventually to Ronnie going back to sleep while I went for a bike ride.

I went in the direction away from town because going toward town is straight downhill, a terrible way to begin a bike ride. The problem with going away from town, of course, is that there is virtually nothing between one town and the next. Not that convenience stores are the be all and end all or anything, but I'm not used to riding for 10 miles and seeing not one single business open anywhere and a mini market with cold drinks would have been appreciated. Did see a nice fishing pond though.

After I got back we headed out to taste the famous Finger Lakes wines. They were about what I expected. Everything was very drinkable, nothing was great. We didn't buy anything to take home. Many of them are in absolutely beautiful spots overlooking the lakes. There's almost no public access to either Cayuga or Seneca lake, the two biggest ones. I'm not sure why, aside from budget cuts that have forced NY to close the swimming areas in the state parks. It's a shame though.

Eventually we ended up at a very nice restaurant called Suzanne's Regional Cuisine. Oddly, that's how everyone there always refers to it, by that entire name. I had sort of assumed that Suzanne's was the name of the restaurant and Regional Cuisine was merely a descriptor, but apparently I was mistaken. Aside from repeating their entire name, the other verbal tick was that, no matter what the waiter or busboy or hostess did at the table, they always left saying "Enjoy!" By mid-entree´ we realized that this was just a thing that they did and were tempted to goad them into saying it even more often. But we didn't because we're nice people.

When we got back to the hotel I panicked because I couldn't find the new bottle opener I'd bought because I couldn't get the beer that I'd bought open with any of the 4 openers that we had at our disposal. After frantically searching through the car (you'd think after all the wine tasting that this would be unnecessary but I was driving so I'd been spitting a lot) for 10 minutes I finally gave up and went to the local mini mart and got something with a twist-off cap. Thank goodness for technology.