We are NOT an Amish Family

On June 11, 2011, our family took a short vacation to Lancaster County Pennsylvania. We picked a lovely hotel called Amish View Inn which was just slightly off the beaten path. The hotel had lovely rooms, a delicious hot breakfast every morning with a chef who made egg dishes to order, and a nice pool for the kids.

The view from our hotel room was of a quite farm.

The hotel was adjacent to The Plain and Fancy Farm restaurant and gift shop. They had adorable little Amish figurines and lots of novelties including the deck of cards labeled with all the strange city names like Intercourse. Blue Ball, and Virginville. It was fun to peruse the aisles.

While our daughter swam, the rest of the family caught up on our electronic technological devices. We are definitely NOT Amish.

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In the evening we took a murder mystery dinner train ride on the The Strasburg Railroad.

The ticket stub (above) had some funny "rules" of the ride. The meal was delicious, but the train drove down the tracks at a pretty slow speed and only went about 9 miles up and back. I had prime rib, while others had chicken cordon bleu and crab meat stuffed flounder.

We saw farmland including this place that was planted for a future corn maze. The path for the maze (yellow patches) was killed with some form of Round-up to prevent it from growing all summer long.

 My son won the prize for "solving" the murder mystery. It was pretty arbitrary, but nevertheless we walked away with a package of old fashioned candies for our efforts.

Carolyn "Care Bear" King