Amish Country

Time for a day trip to see the surrounding countryside. We headed to Amish Country in Lancaster, PA. John stopped to show them the old AuWerter homestead, now the After 8 Bed and Breakfast.

Across the street, we stopped to check out a local farmers market – filled with fall vegetables and fruits and the most amazing selection of gourds, pumpkins and squash. Gordon shopped for our dinner that night, filling bags with fresh squash, yams, tomatoes and new potatoes.

We stopped at the Intercourse Farmers Market—which was really more like a tourist trap filled with Amish people selling junk to “the English” (as they call non-Amish). In this case, they really were selling to “the English”—although our only purchase was a piece of shoofly pie.

Jean and I opted for a walk while the boys went to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania—claiming over 100 locomotives and cars from the mid-19th and 20th centuries, including the Pennsylvania Railroad Historical Collection.

Gordon was in his glory with a building filled with railroad cars and engines. (We had to laugh when we combined photos from the trip and found dozens of photos of the train wheels, train engines, and the undercarriage of rail cars.)

Our evening- more wine, more great Gordon prepared food, a roaring fire and again, a drunken hot tub party….It doesn’t get better than this!