Upstate NY Nestie GTG!

So yesterday was the big Upstate NY Get-together and it was so much fun! Upstate NY basically runs from Albany to Buffalo to Binghamton and all points north (since they don't have a Northern NY board). So we don't usually have all-board GTG's - we usually just break off into individual city GTG's. So this was our first one - and it was a great one to start off with!

So we Albany girls carpooled:

Two*True and Abba916:




Mrobin73 and LadyRed7




It took a little over 2 hours to get out there - and thank you to Lulu (female version of Mrobin's TomTom!) for helping us bypass a traffic accident, a detour, and State Fair traffic! We ended up being about 30 mins late due to all the alternate directions we had to take, but we made it!

We all met in Skaneateles at the Sherwood Inn, which is this really cute inn right across from the Lake that is the 2nd longest continuously running inn in the country (since 1800). We met the other girls there, and had a delicious lunch!


Us at the Inn/Restaurant:



After lunch, we went across the street and hopped on the boat for a tour of Skaneateles Lake (one of the Finger Lakes, in NYS) and played with a duck:






And another group picture, this time on the boat.


Front Row (l-r):
Mrsoc, Marcyiam, June4bride2b, Two*True, Mrobin73


Back Row (l-r):
MelissaSue81 (pg mama!), Labbie, Prncsstp, Abba916, Moximissy, Rivierabound, LadyRed7




And another - look at how awesomely blue/green that water was (Skaneateles Lake is the 2nd cleanest lake in the country - and the water is like the Caribbean - so blue/green, and beautiful)!!



And a couple other views from the boat (although seriously not doing the water color justice! ha):






After the boat tour, we did some shopping around town:




And took another group picture at the gazebo:




On the way to the GTG, we saw field upon field of Sunflowers, but, on the way home, we ended up accidentally going the wrong way back (thanks Lulu!) and since we couldn't take pictures of us frolicking in the sunflowers, we ended up pulling over in the middle of the Thruway interstate (yikes!) on the way home and taking pictures of us in one of the many cornfields - and losing my shoe in the mud!

My shoe was so stuck in the mud, I couldn't even find it at first - gross, but funny!

And now LadyRed7's turn to get muddy (and for me to rinse off my shoe)

OMG, it was so funny - such a good laugh!

It was so much fun and all the ladies were great - we look forward to doing another one, soon! Thanks for the great time, ladies!