May 28 – Very early in the morning I knew our plans for today would not go according to plan.  It was raining and raining rather hard and steady.  So we didn’t rush to have breakfast or get dressed as we had to decide what to do.  Most of the things we want to see and do are outside and Bill doesn’t have his rain jacket and we didn’t want to have to be in the weather anyway.  So the plan for the day was to head to LeRoy to the Jell-o Gallery and Caledonia to the Camping World. 

LeRoy is only about 30 minutes and when we got there we were advised to wait as they had a couple of school buses there so we went on to Caledonia, just 10 minutes away and found the Camping World to get a new clasp for the sliding glass closet door.

 

 

The kids were gone when we got back to LeRoy to the Jell-o Gallery, which is behind the Historic LeRoy House.  Both are run by the LeRoy Historical Society.  We were only interested in the Jell-o Museum.  LeRoy is the birthplace of Jell-o, patented by Peter Cooper in 1845 but never distributed.  He sold the patent to Pearl Wait in 1895 who tried marketing it but didn’t do well so sold it for $450 to Frank Woodward of LeRoy who was 20 years old and he developed it into a major product line with 4 flavors.  He changed his company name to Jell-o and later sold the whole company to General Foods and eventually it became Kraft foods.  It was really fun to watch the old tv commercials and see all the promo items Jell-o has used over the years.  I did get a recipe to make Jell-o 1-2-3 from scratch, well starting with a box of Jell-o.  That was my favorite product and they discontinued it in 1996 I think.    The downstairs of the Jell-o Museum was also a very interesting display called “On the Road”.  There were a number of wagons, carriages and a 1908 Cadillac.  The modes of transportation covered 100 years.  Very interesting.

We had lunch at D & R Depot Restaurant, which used to be the train depot of LeRoy.  The

tracks are still there and there are still trains using them but no more passenger trains stop there.  The food was excellent and everything was made fresh.  We both had Chicken Pot Pies that came with a salad and a yeast roll and a muffin.  I had half of a ginger muffin and ¼ of a yeast roll and both were yummy!  You can guess who ate the rest.  

 

We took the long way home via Batavia as I wanted to stop at the JoAnn’s there for more netting and then we stopped at Wal-mart.  I had 2 receipts (one from Ohio) that the cashier overcharged so I wanted to clear that up.  I got back $12, so it was worth the stop.  Plus we needed a couple of things.

The weather cleared up some but was drizzly on and off most of the day.  We never had to stay inside, so all in all it was a good day.  Once we got close to home we stopped at the Kutters Cheese Factory that is just a few miles away.  I wanted to check it out and we did buy some curds.  I got the Buffalo ones, wow, they’ve got some zing!  Wimpy Bill got plain white cheddar.  They had a huge selection of cheeses they make and cheeses they bring in. 

 

We only have 2 campers in our park tonight and we think there is only one in the other loop.  Tonight it’s raining pretty steady again so will set what the morning brings as to our plans for the day.