Week in New York: Skaneateles

One of my absolutes when I go home to New York, is a visit to Skaneateles, a picturesque town located in the Finger Lakes region.  It is pronounced "skinny-at'las", but my husband calls it "scan-ee-a-tell'-eez" which by saying it this way has become the only way I can seem to spell it nowadays.  Whenever we do go there, we always make sure we have time to eat at the historic Sherwood Inn which has absolutely delicious food.  I've never eaten anything there that I didn't like.  Then we typically venture over to "La Patisserie" to see what delicate pastries we can get our hands on.  This time, we made Skaneateles a "girls day out", leaving all three kids behind for my dad and brother to chase after.  Since I've been watching what I eat, I tried hard to determine which item from "La Patisserie" would have the lowest impact on my waist line, but I wasn't going to pass up a chance to eat chocolate!  In the end, I settled on a chocolate mousse cup, and truth be told, it was the most delicious thing I've ever eaten from "La Patisserie".  Samantha had a cupcake, which she went a little giddy over, and my mom had ... I can't remember what it's called--a fruit and nut ... bar ... thing with a delicious sugar-cookie like crust.  Samantha and I became a little silly as we sat down outside La Patisserie to eat our goodies.  The pictures will attest to the general silliness that was going on ...  And what better time for silliness than a girls' day out?

Outside La Patisserie

 Chocolate Mousse Cup (yummy!!!!)

 Mom and Samantha (You can see Samantha starting to get giddy)

 The silliness is in full swing

 More evidence of complete and utter silliness

 Samantha, outside the historic Sherwood Inn