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My parents came to town for a week over Memorial Day weekend and, I have to say, it was the best. Of course, I’ve always loved and enjoyed spending time with my family (maybe just a little less so during my teenage years? heh), but I think you just reach a certain age where you remember how cool your parents really are and you wish they didn’t live clear across the country so you could spend time with them more often.

Anyway, the week they were here was simply wonderful! We drank a bottle of wine, ate custard or grape pie (it’s a Finger Lakes thing), and played cards every single night. We ate Greek, Italian, German, American, and more at a bunch of fantastic local restaurants, took a long and lazy stroll through Highland Park, made lots of guacamole, did Friday night Bingo (I can hear you laughing from 600 miles away…it’s a big thing up here!), went to the market for rhubarb and fresh-cut lilacs, visited many ice cream parlors and apple markets, had a family movie night, saw a play at the theatre, spent a day on the Keuka Lake wine trail, and cruised the scenic Erie Canal on a charter boat with margaritas in hand. Clearly, I want them to come back immediately.

Today’s post highlights some of these adventures. The wine trail is another post for another day, but you gotta start somewhere! And there’s no better place to start than with insanely delicious and authentic Swan German (which, I’m sure, took mom and dad right back to their years living in Germany) and some good old majestic Flower City blooms and Blue Angels flyovers at Highland Park.

 Part II: The glorious day in which we drink wine around a lake all day, coming soon!