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This morning I went over to Geneseo and picked up Subway for the family.  Then I picked up Maggie from the Hampton Inn and we went to the Euro Cafe on Main Street in Geneseo to get pirogies, which she has never had before.

Today was a very light day and we all went home early.

Got another late start today.  Our internal clocks are all messed up from the events of the weekend dealing with the car.

I spent the day posting and writing.  Tonight we got Maggie and took her to the Wadsworth Grill where Art and Danielle were playing in the band.  This is the first time that she got to experience a real, honest to goodness American bar and grill.

It was also her first time getting Buffalo wings.  She liked them a lot.

Got to see a lot of high school friends as well. It was a good night.

We got the news from the dealer this morning – the engine in the Chevy Spark is dead.  Thankfully, they are pretty sure that everything will be covered under the extended powertrain warranty.  But they cannot know that for sure until the engine goes to a machine shop and they get a look at the inside of the cylinders.  So the car is dead for a long time and we have no idea how bad it is going to be.

The Apple announcement was this morning, the iPhone 7 and the iWatch 2 were announced.  I hope to be getting both later this year.  The iPhone 7+ has some awesome new camera stuff that makes it make a lot of sense.  And it is waterproof, that is enormous for us, the travelers.  I lost one of my iPhone 5s phones in Panama because it went in the water.  When you are out of the country, anything that protects your phone is a big deal.

Today was a busy day posting and then this evening we went and got Maggie, hooked up the GoPro and drove down through Perry and Castile, into Letchworth State Park and did some filming and driving around.  The filming of us in the car worked really well.  We are very excited about how the GoPro is going to work for this.

Maggie had a lot of fun in the park and did a lot of filming and picture taking.  She did not know what to expect from Letchworth.  We drove most of the park and saw all of the falls.  She even got to film one of the final trains going across the trestle.  It is being torn down this summer.

From the park, once it was dark, we drove up to the Charcoal Corral in Perry and got ice cream.  Maggie has been wanting to do that since getting to New York.

This “morning” I went over to Geneseo to pick up Maggie from the Hampton Inn. It was actually early in the afternoon.  We are all still recovering from the events of the weekend.

We grabbed lunch from Aunt Cookies so that Maggie could try out Upstate New York subs for the first time.  They were excellent.  I’ve been craving Aunt Cookies all summer.

The weather was perfect on the drive back so we did a quick drive around through Wyoming County checking out towns like Wyoming and Warsaw and then up to Pavilion.  While in Warsaw we swung into Tim Horton’s so that Maggie could see it for the first time.

We all worked out at the farm for a bit this afternoon.  Dominica and Liesl had a busy day today as it was the first day of school.  Maggie is still excited to be getting shown all around New York.  This is all new for her.

This evening Maggie and I needed to run errands in Rochester so went up for a little while.  She was excited to get to see RIT which she has been interested in for a while.  We were heading to Best Buy to get camera supplies for the GoPro so that we could be testing out some filming options.  I needed to get a suction cup mount so that the GoPro can mount to the front window of the car.

After Best Buy we swung into The Tilted Kilt and grabbed a quick drink before returning from the city.

We got to Geneseo and went to University Hots for dinner.  We did take out and brought plates back to the farm for everyone.  This is Maggie’s first garbage plate… she likes it a lot.

I got my first ever grilled cheese plate, wow do I love that!  It’s a change of pace and really amazing.   The grilled cheese is just perfect in the plate format.

After dinner we hung around for a bit and then I drove Maggie back over to Geneseo to drop her off at her hotel.

I spoke to the dealer today and know that they have the car and will be looking at it soon.  Maybe we will know something about it tomorrow.

Between the car breaking down, two weeks of Maggie staying in New York and MangoCon I started to get behind on SGL again, immediately after having caught up again.  Then, right after that, was tons more stuff.  So two months later, I’m playing post catch up.  Ugh.

Today the first order of business was to track down a car to use.  Luckily Sharon and Leo were able to let us borrow their Malibu for a bit.  It is going to be quite a while before we even know anything about the Spark, let alone get it fixed, let alone find a way to get back down to pick it up – assuming that that is even an option.  Today is Labour Day so the shop is closed and we will not even get to call and make sure that they have gotten the car until tomorrow.

We all slept in a bit this morning.  We did not go over to Geneseo to pick up Maggie for quite a while.  We really did just about nothing all day.

Dad went over with us and we all went to Denny’s for lunch.  Liesl has been asking to go to Denny’s for a while.

This evening, maybe around five, Dominica, Maggie and I did some grocery shopping before she came up to the house.  Then after that, Dominica, Maggie and Danielle went out for pedicures.