Saturday

 

Saturday was another rainy day on the shores of Lake Ontario.  Campsite started to fill up with late arrivals.  We really like the site – all trees and nice and quiet.

Great day to do laundry and some shopping and then we met Kathy and Tim at their home.  Checked out Costco to get some fuel for the Jeep – we don’t keep the tank filled while we’re on the road – just extra weight to tow around.  Same principle as not keeping the fresh water tank filled.  Went to a new brewery named Heroes which Kathy and Tim had recently discovered.  Kind of a neat history – couple started it during the pandemic (now there’s a leap of faith).  The couple have the business sense and they have a brewer who takes care of the magic in the back room.  The owner gave Vi and I a tour of the brewery.  Really fun to compare the process and equipment to other micro-breweries we have been to.  They had about twenty bags of spent grain from the brewing process which they send to a local dairy.  Hey, a happy cow gives good milk 😊.   They went in with three other breweries in the area after a National Guard helicopter crashed in the area and killed all four on board.  Each brewery contributed a special brew in honor of the Guardsmen and then sold the four-packs and contributed the profits to their families.  While we were there, people were coming in for their special orders of the four-pack.

 

Went back to Tim and Kathy’s to do some e-mail and print out some bills.  Hey, you still have to do the mundane things while you’re on vacation.  The campground doesn’t have wi-fi in our area so we used the T&K Internet Café.  In the evening, we had dinner at the Cub which is a converted furniture store (just one of the many iterations for the building).  High ceilings and exposed ventilation and utilities in an awesome setting.  As we were leaving the car in the parking lot, Tim pointed out a local butcher shop which had a unique way of selling meat.  They have an actual vending machine in the lobby open 24 hours a day, seven days a week from which you can everything from hamburger to steaks to every kind of cut and variety you can think of.  While we were looking at the vending machine, the butcher from McCann’s opened the inner door and explained the process.  It’s all refrigerated (obviously) and they restock it several times a week.  It’s been on TV because it’s such a neat concept.

 Anyway, dinner was awesome (think I overuse that word) made more so by the greatest waitress/server we have seen in a long time.  When Kathy made the reservation, she said it was for a birthday, so they brought over four shots of bourbon for us to toast the birthday.  Great way to start dinner and something we had never experienced before.  If you want to see a different menu, Google The Cub in Rochester.  All good food and some unusual entrees.

 After we left Tim and Kathy, we drove back to the campground.  One of the vantage points at the Monroe County Park is a parking area on Lake Ontario.  There were dozens of cars parked there to view the sunset which was awesome (there’s that word again).