A weekend in Amish Country

So Friday morning we loaded up the van (actually loaded it up Thursday night), and we headed up to PA for the weekend. We made it to Hershey around 11am in Friday, and was off for the chocolate tour. Avery loved the tour, but loved the chocolate he got at the end the best.

AJ was just an excellent baby through the whole tour, he is now facing out in his little pack I carry him in, and he is just as happy as can be in it. AJ even got to taste a teeny tiny bit of chocolate, I mean come on... everybody should get to taste chocolate at chocolate world!

After the tour we continued on our journey to Amish country. We got to check into our hotel an hour early so we were able to get settled and give the boys a quick nap. We headed to Hershey Farm in Lancaster for their smorgasbord dinner... OH my goodness the food was WONDERFUL. Fried chicken, rolls, mac n cheese, shrimp, ham, turkey so good home cooking, YUMMI.

Saturday we headed out to Cherry and a 2 1/2 mile corn maze. At the start Adam and I thought "oh we'll be done in 30 minutes" after 1 HOUR we had to ask for the exit as the boys (and us) were pooped. We got to eat the most WONDERFUL corn there. It was roasted in 500 degrees for 27 minutes... Absolutely the best we've ever had.
Then it was home for naps, and off to the Strasburg train. We had a wonderful time... check out the link to our kodak pictures to see pictures of our trip.

Sunday we did a buggy ride through amish country and then in the afternoon got in the van and headed off on our own tour through the town. It was soo amazing just to see these horse and buggies driving on the same road as us...

I think the thing that made us realize we weren't at home any more was Saturday morning we were driving down the road and there was a a young man running barefoot on the road with a young child (also barefoot), and the young child was pulling a cart as they both ran down the street... you don't' see that in our local county very often!

We headed back home on Monday after a quick stop back at Hershey world to bring some chocolate home... We had a wonderful trip and some great quality time with the boys.

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