Vacation is over!

And what a great time we had with Emily and Joe.  They were wonderful travelers and very interested in everything we did.  Sometimes you would think they weren’t listening but when asked a question they had the answers immediately so what you see isn’t always what is real…they do listen and retain what they see and hear.  Loved every minute of our vacation.

A week was long but hardly long enough for what we had planned.
I won’t put all the pictures on because it would take me a long while to do it and you would get very bored so just a few from each day.
So I will do the first 4 days to start with.

Day 1 – on the drive out.
We stopped in Cranberry for the first night so we didn’t have but 4 hours to go the next day – 14 hours would have been too much for the kids – and us!

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They loved going through the tunnels in PA
   

Day 2, Sunday – arrived in Lancaster, checked into the room and headed for lunch at Jennies Diner on Rt. 30 – a wonderful old diner that serves wonderful food and lots of it.
   

Then over to Strasburg to take a ride on the Strasburg Railroad.  It was a fun 45 minute ride up to Paradise and back on a steam locomotive.  We chose to sit in the open air cars and boy it was windy – I had rooster tails the rest of the day.
  

  

After that we had to have ice cream of course so on to the Strasburg Creamery
   

We were meeting Doug’s cousins Linda and John and their daughter Kyle for supper at Hot Z’s – another favorite of ours when we are in Lancaster
    

Day 3 – Gettysburg
We hired a guide to come along in our car and this was the best thing we did being the kids were with us.
Our guide was like a walking book – he had such knowledge and made it fun and interesting.
  

  

  

After the tour we headed for the Dobbin House for lunch
     

Emily ordered Apple Cider and said how fun it would be to take a picture and send it to her parents because it looked like she had wine to drink
  

Day 4 – Market day
We first went to downtown Lancaster to Central Market and then headed up to Roots Market
Every time Doug and I went to Lancaster we took a loaf of Cinnamon Swirl bread back home to Joe – we did this from the time he was about 2 – he called it ‘circle toast’ and so we HAD to buy some for him to take home.  Bought him 2 loaves and put it in the freezer that night to keep it fresh.  And we bought one for us for the week too.
  

  

From Central Market we headed to Roots
    

From there we went to Kitchen Kettle and on to Amish country
  

 

I will leave you with this for today because the next day was New York City – a few photos on this day!
I made a few purchases on the trip – I’ll probably put them on the last post.

See ya!
Karen