This year is our 16th wedding anniversary. We hadn't really planned anything. We were talking to someone about that, and Bryce said "well, unless Jess has a surprise" and I said, "you could do a surprise every once in a while." This isn't me being snarky. I do tons of little surprises throughout the year, and Bruce does a really great job with birthdays and Christmas, but random surprises? Not so much.
So imagine my surprise when he booked us a weekend at the lovely fall B&B that we stayed in last year! There happened to be an opening this weekend, Saturday to Monday (which I had off for Indigenous People's Day), and he bagged a very swanky and private suite in an outbuilding!
We had a delightful time with fun fall outings. It's only 25 minutes from our house but further into the Finger Lakes area, so we get to explore different places and not spend the whole time driving.
This morning, though, at the delicious breakfast, the other two couples spent an insane amount of time competing over who had the most grandchildren. And children. I want to say one couple had 7 and the other had 8, but then there were 21 grandchildren or something and (snnnnnnooooorrrre). It went on for so long that Bryce poured me more coffee and aggressively stirred it, making quite the racket.
They are totally entitled to talk about their kids and grandkids and homeschooling and not getting an autism diagnosis until high school (ummmmm because homeschooling won't do evaluations), but it was ad nauseum and no one gave a crap about anything we might offer as we weren't part of the Grandchildren Wars. Uggghhhh.
It was a great time though, and we were super happy to have a lovely retreat all our own to escape to!
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| Going out to dinner |
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| The best little French restaurant we didn't realize was so close! |
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| Canadice Lake |
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| Great blue heron we spooked on our beach walk |
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| The actual trail (the slate beach was NOT the trail we were looking for) |
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| Naples overlook above Canandaigua Lake |
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| In an old cemetery |
