Hot and sunny......started the day with a walk to the Shirt Factory Café for one last coffee/latte and we shared an order of avocado toast (sat outdoors in the courtyard).
Avocado toast on grilled sourdough - soooo good!
Excellent skinny vanilla latte with cinnamon
In 1828 Patrick O'Grady came to Medina and founded the quarries that produced sandstone. Many buildings in town are built of that and just beautiful....the First Baptist Church, City Hall, Sandstone Hotel, and here's the Catholic Church to name a few...
St. Mary's
We left Medina with some good memories at 9:59 AM and I achieved "captain" (well....just for the day) status as I drove all the way to Spencerport (32.6 miles). I'm happy to give that title back to the rightful captain on our next outing! We had 9 lift bridges open for us and went under a total of 35 bridges. Shortly after we arrived here, we heard over the radio from the bridge tender that the Brockport lift bridge (previous one) was having issues and closed ? That's the thing about these lift bridges on the canal - you are at their mercy and if they are not functioning, you are stuck! There was a mechanical problem with one of those in Medina, but it was in the "up" position, so while boats could easily pass thru, cars had to find another route.
Stopped in Albion for lunch at "39 Problems" - ate here on our anniversary (6/28) as we were heading west and another winner.....today we shared the pizza logs and a yummy salad with salmon.
Pizza rolls - delish!
Pizza logs have appeared off and on here in NY menus. The boys had them in Buffalo and today's were excellent - sausage, pepperoni, cheese, etc. dipped in marinara.
There are several neat murals on the main street of Albion. Thought this one was extra special..
Santa and his reindeer flying over Albion (county seat) - completed in 2018
Meandering east on a nice calm day!
We were last in Spencerport late June and met Mark's cousin John and Cindy. Someone knocked on our door this afternoon and there was John out and about on a 15-mile bike ride (short trip for him). He came aboard Catrina, we gave him a bottle of water and had a nice visit catching up on what we've all been doing since we were last together!
Cousin John
Late afternoon we rode bikes on the canal trail and then to the grocery store for a few things that Mark could bring back in his backpack and basket.
We gave Maeve's babies some new clothes on her birthday...
Looks like they are off for a little outing
The 3 canal boats that the sea scouts (from Falmouth, MA) were traveling on this week left us in Medina a few days ago heading to Lockport. They have now caught back up with us and docked behind us here in Spencerport.
From Catrina's stern,,,
a nice ending to our day!
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