Amish Country

This last Saturday, Evelyn and I drove up to meet my family in Pennsylvania. For the past week they've been traveling all over New York and while I wasn't brave enough to take Ev on that adventure, I thought we could atleast manage meeting them for the weekend.

I had visited the Amish Country once when I was probably 5 years old, and it has been on my list of things to do since moving out here to the East. While it took my family a good hour to hone in on the prime Amish spot, we finally came to a place where buggies were more common than cars and lucked out with a wonderful roadside stand. The little Amish family was DARLING, and had an array of homemade goodies for us to choose from. Grandma bought a handcarved train set for baby boy, while we all joined in on sharing a big glass jug of home brewed root beer and turned apple butter. Lucky for Ev, her new favorite thing pulled up along side us - a steam engine! It was a rather quaint afternoon, and I wouldn't mind being Amish for a day or two with all the homecooking and tricks of the trade they do, not to mention the beautiful rolling countryside!