MIKE DAWN ROBIN BOBBY DEBBIE IN GENEVA

 

We had our annual Autum meetup here at Lakefront 41 in downtown Geneva.

The hotel was right on Geneva lake

Here is Robin looking at the distances to many places named Geneva around the world.

The rooms are nice, and there were a few issues as per usual.  

The daytime clerk was not helpful for determining some things, like what we had booked and whether I have duplicate Wyndom Accounts.  I'll have to call on the latter.

The curtain did not cut out the light in the room as it was too narrow and set in from the window so that light leaked. 

But I had no problem sleeping.

One of our company had hairs in the new bed, and they came and changed sheets again.

Another had an old toothbrush holding the shower head in place.  

But the views were fantastic. There was a Farm to Table restaurant with good food, few people and a great view of the quiet lake and the gulls and one lone fisherman.

Outside we could walk along the water and out a long pier.  

I loved all of it.

I like the dining area here with a view of the lake, and we had a nice lunch of flatbread covered with beef and a blue cheese mix.   But we decided to eat in the little downtown.  It was a nice walk and there was some street music on one block.

We ate at Beef and Brew and that was good as well, but they advertised 4% off if we paid cash and then could not give us that because one person used a credit card at the table.  Strange because we had separate checks.  I had the bill refunded and paid by card as well.

Lots of stories.  Dawn told stories about Michael twice sleeping through huge noises in the night at there house.  One was a limb cutting at midnight due to neighbor complaint.

Elizabeth and I danced to the street music.  It was a fine walk in the dark with streets all full of lights.  Here is a short video of our dancing:

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Sunday it rained, but it did not much affect our activities.  

We are a fine breakfast at the restaurant here.  I had brunch, a sandwich with perfect French Fries, rare in my experience.  It was sliced pot roast and blue cheese.

Robin had pancakes which were the size of a small frizbee, and I tasted.  They were good.

Bobby had French Toast with peach topping.  I tasted, and that was good also.

We went to the Women's Rights Museum and just caught a fine lecture in the original chapel where the Women's Rights National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)

Here we listened to a grand lecture from a Park Ranger that was very good.  We listened while sitting in the pews the church where the first for Women's Rights was held in 1848 and the " Declaration of Sentiments" was presented and approved by the gathering. By the time the right to vote was achieved only one woman in the groups was still alive.  She was bed ridden at 100 and could not go to the polls.  Sad.

Then we went to the Women's Rights National Historical Park (not a park but a gallery holding a fine display of materials about the history of Women's Rights.)

Women’s Rights National Historical Park, New York - AYERS IN THE AIR

It was better than expected with some fine wood sculpture and odds and ends of items.  Sometimes museums like these only show on-wall displays of things that could easily be found on a computer, but this was more artistic and more interesting and actually included a few artifacts.

This painting of a woman in Seneca Falls and one in Persia caught my attention.  I'm trying to get more information on it.

Here Dawn gives her version the famous speech, shorter but much more animated.  In Dawn's version women were superior to men.  

How quickly equity vanishes!

ELIZABETH COMMENTS

These friends have been part of each others lives since 1964 when Mike entered college and eventually joined the International Club at UB. Their history combined with the history of the Women's Rights convention made for a spine tingling weekend for me. The Women of 1848 were inspired in part from the indigenous women who lived in a matrilineal culture where women had rights that the women of 1848 did not have. Lucretia Mott was a celebrity lecturer spreading abolitionist and feminist thinking throughout the nation. Alice Williams and I were here in Seneca Falls in the late 1980s in support of the Equal Rights Amendment which has still not passed all the states required for the amendment. Alice had a birthday celebration every year for Elizabeth Cady Stanton to honor and remember what these women did for us.

We stopped for wine tasting and a visit to the Belhurst Castle

Finger Lakes Hotels - Castles in New York | Belhurst Castle

We came home with 3 bottles on a Buy 2 Get 1 free sale.

We had a great Italian Supper at Consentino's, an old fashioned sort of Italian restaurant.

www.cosentinosgeneva.com

I ate greens and beans over gnocchi with sausage.  It was great!

The fellow gave us a grand table back and in the corner.  Good people.  Our waitress was a relative of the owner.  She lived in Texas and would go back in a week or so.  She was very personable.  She was the only girl; she had five brothers.

I tasted Robin's calamari and it was very good, crispy and mild.

When we came to leave, I had lost my phone.  We looked everywhere.  Later that night Elizabeth located it using an app on the computer and it was tucked into a corner of the car, under the seat.

We had our final breakfast there at the hotel and left on Monday after checking out.  A great meetup.

On the way home I bought two nice tomatoes from an Amish woman selling them at the Thruway stop, and our neighbor had brought us corn from PA.