Amish Road Trip Tuesday

Aimee and I drove through Lancaster, Bird-In-Hand, and Intercourse Pennsylvania yesterday (Tuesday), on our way back to Philadelphia from Gettysburg. Funny there is an Amish town named "Intercourse." Well, I think it is funny.

I am not sure what the excitement is, seeing an Amish buggy coming down the street, but we had it. Excitement about a horse, pulling a small buggy down the street...as if we had never seen this before. Well, not too often, that is for sure.

The kind Amish would generally wave to us as we had our cameras pointed towards them. I am sure we weren't, and won't be the last, tourist fascinated with them. The drive was great as we saw the most beautiful land. Aimee snapped picture after picture as I drove. We ended up keeping the rental car an extra day because we weren't going to make it back to Philadelphia before 6pm. That ended up being a good thing anyway. We drove the rental car down to the Reading Terminal Market this morning and had our last Amish breakfast at "Dutch Eating Place." We ended up with a couple more bags of souvenirs:-) We took the car back to Enterprise and got a ride back to the hotel.

We re-organized our luggage and pack the bags as much as we could and decided we were going to check them so we wouldn't have to lug them around (hey, is that were the word "Luggage" came from? - random thought). We had the hotel hold our bags and we went out again for our last hurrah. We did some more shopping, of course, and then went to Nick's Roast Beef for our final meal - CheeseSteak!! We started our trip at Nick's with dinner, Thursday night, after arriving in Philadelphia. We thought it appropriate to end our trip with lunch at Nick's today. Afterall, we decided after eating CheeseSteak at three different places, that Nick's was the best!

Shell