Our *other* itinerary
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rivkaSaturday July 24
Drive about two hours to Lancaster County, PA.
Check into the Greystone Manor B&B in Bird-in-Hand, where we have reserved adjoining double and single rooms with air conditioning.
Take a tour of Amish farm country by horse and buggy, visiting working farms on back roads where cars are not permitted. Then tour one house and farm in close-up detail. Inflict upon our poor, unsuspecting Spanish student the unique American cultural experience of the "corn maze."
Go back to the B&B to swim and change before dinner.
Eat Pennsylvania Dutch food.
Lounge about in the B&B for a quiet evening, possibly to include hot tubbing, games, reading, watching the sunset. Alternatively, try to inveigle fellow travelers into playing miniature golf.
Sunday July 25
Eat a big, indulgent German-American breakfast.
Visit the Lancaster County Quilt and Textile Museum.
Possibly wind up Sunday by renting kayaks and paddling around the Susquehanna. Alternatively, poke around in shops for a while and then head home.
Should provide an interesting contrast to the New York trip.
Drive about two hours to Lancaster County, PA.
Check into the Greystone Manor B&B in Bird-in-Hand, where we have reserved adjoining double and single rooms with air conditioning.
Take a tour of Amish farm country by horse and buggy, visiting working farms on back roads where cars are not permitted. Then tour one house and farm in close-up detail. Inflict upon our poor, unsuspecting Spanish student the unique American cultural experience of the "corn maze."
Go back to the B&B to swim and change before dinner.
Eat Pennsylvania Dutch food.
Lounge about in the B&B for a quiet evening, possibly to include hot tubbing, games, reading, watching the sunset. Alternatively, try to inveigle fellow travelers into playing miniature golf.
Sunday July 25
Eat a big, indulgent German-American breakfast.
Visit the Lancaster County Quilt and Textile Museum.
Possibly wind up Sunday by renting kayaks and paddling around the Susquehanna. Alternatively, poke around in shops for a while and then head home.
Should provide an interesting contrast to the New York trip.
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Date: 2004-07-15 08:05 pm (UTC)You're becoming quite the family project.
When is this again?
(btw, Lancaster County is incredibly beautiful. Are you going to take the statutory picture at the signs showing the distance to Intercourse and Blue Ball?
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Date: 2004-07-15 08:50 pm (UTC)Your uncle is the sweetest. That's really great.
Our plan is to arrive in Chinatown (corner of Mott and Worth) around 10:30 or 11, on the Chinatown bus. We're going to take the Staten Island Ferry first, because we'll already be down on that side of town, and then we plan to meander slowly uptown looking at things. Unless I'm using the word "uptown" incorrectly. In the late afternoon we hope to end up at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, culminating in dinner with various rassffers if that can be coordinated.
It would be great to have your company for some or all of the above. How shall we arrange that?
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Date: 2004-07-16 07:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-16 08:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-16 08:05 am (UTC)sigh.
We're gonna be in Massachusetts.
(eyes cross)
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Date: 2004-07-16 09:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-16 09:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-16 10:40 am (UTC)pfui. I was hoping it was any other weekend...
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Date: 2004-07-15 08:15 pm (UTC)K.
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Date: 2004-07-15 08:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-15 08:31 pm (UTC)Your visit to the quiet countryside sounds lovely. I hope you are out in the evening, when they light their oil lamps after it's gotten quite dark. That's the most welcoming thing I have ever seen, even though the houses were owned by people I didn't know, who weren't actually welcoming anybody, let alone me.
K.
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Date: 2004-07-16 08:05 am (UTC)We passed up the option to stay at a bed-and-breakfast on an actual working Amish farm, with no electricity and all the rest of it. I'm intrigued, though. I think that some other time, I'd like to do it - maybe when we could stay longer, and actually get into the rhythm of their lives for a bit.
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Date: 2004-07-15 10:03 pm (UTC)Soudsn like fun, too. I am envious.