We're home from the lake. Ontario, the least iconic of the Great Lakes. Seriously, there were no cool Lake Ontario t-shirts to be seen in a 100 mile radius of Rochester, NY. But it was still a lake, and it was still great and we saw a bald eagle flying over the water in front of our house, so we are four for four on the eagle/lake combo.
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| Sunsets, on point. |
We did lots of touristy things like wine tasting and birdwatching and walking out to the Sodus Point light house (we didn't linger in the Sodus Point village though, because it smelled like dead fish and there were more stars and bars flags than we wanted to see (in case you're wondering, the number I'd like to see is zero)).
Our touristy highlight was the much better than expected George Eastman Museum in Rochester. He's the guy who founded Kodak, made an excessive Gilded Age fortune, and, as we learned from the tour we tagged along on, never married, went to Africa and shot elephants, and had weekly lobster lunches with a group of employees' wives. I now need to know much more about him. The museum also had lots of photography history and one gallery contained an exhibit by photographer Zig Jackson, who I also now need to know more about.
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| I was disappointed there wasn't any Zig Jackson merch in the gift shop. In fact the gift shop was the most disappointing part of the museum. I went in fully prepared to spend all my tourist dollars on a retro kodachrome t-shirt and a Zig Jackman postcard, but found neither of those things available. It is always possible that was a deliberate statement about commerce and culture. So here is the card advertising the exhibit. |
The other highlight was that we did it all with friends:
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| Jigsaw puzzles were completed. |
It's on to Lake Huron next year.
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