A trip to New York

Our trip to New York was great! We left Friday morning and drove to the town of Dunkirk right on lake Erie. We stopped at the lake and went to the lighthouse. Brent wanted to see the Marcellis formation along the lake. It was beautiful and we enjoyed our short time there. We then drove to Batavia where we found a hotel for the night. After we checked in and ate we drove to Niagra Falls to see them at night. We found out there would be fireworks so that was an added bonus.

On Saturday morning we got up and drove to the Finger Lakes. We followed highway 89 south along Cayuga Lake. We stopped at a winery and got a tour and did a little wine tasing. It was espically neat beacuse this winery was a family run winery and our tour was given by the owner.
It was very interesting.

We then headed to the south tip of Senica Lake to a State Park "Watkins Glen" all of the photos on this post are from there. This has to be in the top ten of parks we have ever visited and we only had a few hours to spend!
We arrived at the park late in the afternoon and the park closed a dusk. So we started on the gourge trail. Breathtaking is not a big enough word to describe it!

The above photo was taken at the beginning of the trail. The trail had 19 waterfalls and at each bend we would think it couldn't possibily be as beautiful as what we had seen. IT WAS!

At one point on the trail I just had to stop and Praise God! It was just so overwhelming!

The trail was a pretty easy trail with steps to help with the elevation climb. They did a wonderful job keeping the trail natural lookng and safe.

Since the park closed at dusk we could only do part of one trail we made it to the 1 mile point on this 1 1/2 mile trail before we turned back. We would love to return some day and camp there. !

On Sunday we got up and drove to another waterfall that could be seen from the road then headed to Syarcuse. There we visited the Erie Canal Museum. We wondered why it was not on the canal and were told that it had been. The road "Erie" used to be part of the canal. They made it into a street when the canal was no longer used! It was very interesting.

Then started the long drive back to Pittsburgh. We got on the road by noon, but because of road consstruction we didn't make it back to our apartment till 11pm. Long day, but the trip was so worth it.