"Do you pop out at parties? Are you unpoopular?"

"Well, are you???"

We started the day with a short drive into Jamestown, Lucille Ball's hometown. We started by going to visit Lucy's tombstone and childhood home since... uh.. I'm obsessed with her.. and the museum didn't open for a few hours. We grabbed some breakfast and coffee and then explored downtown Jamestown. Most of the stores were closed but we were able to find a couple of murals of my favorite couple.

Next, we visited the museum and playhouse dedicated to Lucy and Desi. The museum had a lot of pictures and personal stories about them. There we learned that after Lucy graduated high school she moved to NYC to attend acting school, but after a year, the school wrote a letter home to her mother that Lucy just didn't have what it took to make it in acting and that she should just save her money.. Lucy is the original "Hey, don't worry man, Michael Jordan didn't make the cut for his high school basketball team" speech! There, we saw home movies, scenes from shows Lucy has been in and I recorded my own Vitameatavegamin commercial.. it's so tasty, too!!

The playhouse had a recreation of the Ricardo's kitchen and living room and it took all my strength to not climb over the barrier, sit on their couch and leaf through the magazine on their coffee table. I left with a smile from ear to ear.

Southern Tier Brewing Company was close by to Jamestown so we stopped to check it out. It was named best brewery in New York according to BeerAdvocate.com. Our stop resulted in us sampling every single one of the beers they had on tap, and of course Larry whipping out his credit card and crowding the car with more beer ;)

On the way to Buffalo, we stopped in a beautiful town called Chautauqua located on a lake of the same name. It was not like any other place we'd seen but reminded us of a little town off route 1 in California we stopped in. All of the houses were Victorian and huge, but the streets were really narrow, some only allowing bikes or pedestrians. We stopped by a little beach and bell tower and found a cache before heading out.

We arrived in Buffalo and after getting a hotel, our next stop was to try Duff's famous wings. We ordered their medium-mild and barbecue and loved both, though Larry wished we got the medium. We didn’t know if we should choose the place that invented buffalo wings (Anchor bar) or the place that has “the best wings” (Duff’s). We went with Duff’s since it was close to our hotel and closer to Niagara Falls, which was our next stop.

Niagara Falls was much more than I expected. We’ve seen all types of waterfalls, but Niagara falls is like no other. Even though it’s a short waterfall compared to some others we’ve seen (Yosemite Falls), its power and strength cannot be compared with any other. We spent several hours walking from viewpoint to viewpoint, getting soaked by the mist, not wanting to leave.

On our way back to our hotel, we decided to stop by an ice cream place we saw earlier, if they were still open. Not only were they still open, the parking lot was packed and there were long lines on every line to order. Larry got one of their custard cones and I got bananas fosters ice cream... delicious!