Letchworth State Park 2017

Letchworth State Park was awesome. We visited last Wednesday. It's a large state park with three large waterfalls — the Upper, Middle, and Lower Falls — on the Genesee River.

Our family at the Middle Falls

 

Near the park entrance

James taking pictures at the overlook

Upper Falls is blocked off by a fence because it's they've had issues with people falling in. It's basically out-of-order for the time being. I had my zoom lens though and I got an almost-decent picture through the fence while my children looked on and shook their heads.

Upper Falls

Next, we went to Middle Falls which were the best I saw in the entire Finger Lakes.

James enjoying nature, his youth, and the security of parents who love him

Middle Falls!

My loved ones have SO much personality

Next, we went to the Lower Falls which Kevin told us would involve a short hike.

James reading the signs.

Miranda decided she didn't want to hike.

This is when James told us he saw a sign that said to stop. We basically ignored him. I noticed that we could get kind of a good shot here though so I took this picture.

James, telling us to stop now.

Continuing the hike

Still hiking

Finally, Miranda and I stopped, James and Kevin went up ahead and discovered that the views didn't improve but the hike got too steep for kids. In other words, James was right about where to stop. I told him he was right and that next time we'll listen better.

Going back to the car. Children being crazy.

Then we left the diaper bag in the middle of the road. We didn't realize we did that, so we drove to Penn Yan and went to a bookstore. After the bookstore, we realized we were missing the diaper bag which had James's Kindle and various toys. Disaster. We looked around while growing more panicked and depressed, and then found an information center, and they had the bag! Happy happy day!

Burlingham Books in Penn Yan

Finally, we went to dinner. We saw the 3-Legged Pig and we couldn't resist BBQ, It was so good! Especially the brisket. And they gave the kids piggy noses. Hilarity ensued.

3 Legged Pig BBQ

Cheers to an awesome vacation in progress!