Okay this was fun! For my 39th birthday my John gave me a great birthday gift to go on a little weekend road trip to "Intercourse Penn." Yep you read right ..."Intercourse Penn." (I'm cracking up right now cause great minds think a like!) Sooooo....let me share this place with you through my posting today. We took the trip in the middle of Sept. See John has been away from home and then back home and then away from home. I feel like a military wife all over again. Broke, stressed out and yet proud of myself. For those military wives out there they know what I'm talking about! Anyway....so when he got back from one of his trips we were able to get away for a weekend. So we packed up the little convertable bug and dropped the kids off at the grandparents. Off we went! The leaves were just starting to change their colors and the weather was perfect. Gods birthday to me! I like to think like that. Anyway...see I have been in Virginia for almost 8 years now and I haven't really seen that much other then my little town and southern parts of this side of the states. Being from the West coast and seen pretty much everything on that side I've been very eager to see whats over here. So this is all exciting to me.
So our first stop was at this restaurant which very different then any other. This confused John and I at first when we were seated to our table but then we understood and went with it. So we come in really hungery and we go get seated and the host leads us to this lunch room kind of set up and we sit right next to a family of strangers and we share the food/spread. We didn't know what to think so we started asking to pass the bowls around. At this point John and I just looked at each other and we both wanted to talk about what we wanted to do once we got in town but this changed all that. Instead we started chatting with these strangers and passing bowls of good home cooked food. At the end it was actually fun and the food was great! John & I tryed "Shoo Fly Pie" which was pretty tastey. Then next thing I knew this big room full of long dinner tables was full. Buses and buses of people were showing up. This place was popular at lunch time.
It was time to go and go see new things at "Intercourse"! ha! ha!

First stop was the great little town. Good food and homemade everything and friendly healthy people. Farms all around you.

I loved these scarecrows so of course I had to take their pictures for all to see back home.

This one is my favorite!

For the sports fan out there.

I thought this was cute!

This town has a lot of great old homes. Homes with two fireplaces and date plaques that date way back. If their walls could talk I would sit and listen!

Three story houses! I want the room on the top!

We just had to stop the car and take a peak at this one. This was a Inn but it looks like something you would see at Disneyland. The gardens around this house was breath taking. I want a yard just like it! I believe someday I can go take a class on how to get a garden like this. I keep telling myself. Once the kids are on their own adventures in life I will seek all the learning I want to soak up. This dream won't be so far away then. I just need to keep healthy! Until then I'm going to admire this persons hard work and lessons learned.

I swear this was once in Disneyland!

Isn't this lovely!

Most of the garden was "impatents"...it was so pretty!

Then we stoped and took a visit to Santa's place. This was fun! If anybody who knows me I love Christmas! I look forward to it each year. So we had to stop and see the Christmas Center.

I remember my Gotchum (grandma) telling me about these clog shoes and what they did with them at Christmas time in Germany. I remember my aunts wearing them around my grandmas house too.

Bah-humbug! John does a good Ebenezer Scrooge, this is a good classic. I think I've read the book twice and seen a play on it and then the movie over and over again.

I haven't seen air balloons since I lived in Washington state. John asked me if I want to go on one. A part of me was curious and another was nervious due to major fear of heights. So I passed. Even though this would get over my fear but not on this day.

Just cruzing on a sunny day! Did I tell you the weather was perfect! Top was down and the scenery was new and lovely!

This was a old one room school house at one time. Neat huh! Little House and the Parie kind of thing!

There were farms every where! Real big farms! On this trip I learned about the Amish! I had not heard of these people until I met my husband. So of course being a curious person it was neat to learn about them on this trip. They really know how to farm! Plenty of bounty everywhere. The only down side to this trip was my annoying allgeries. I forgot how much a farm air affects me. When I lived in Fresno CA. we lived by farm fields everywhere and I was so affected by the pollen,infact my first grade picture tells the true story. I looked dead with the dark circles and puffy eyes! I was still cute just was really allergic to the farms out there. So it came back and reminded me on this trip. I went something like this...."Oh YAHHHH!!!! I remember this!

Shhhh! He's sleeping!

Okay this cracked John & I up! This was just too funny to us! John & I did so much laughing on this trip...it felt so good too! We hadn't laughed like that in a LONG time! I felt like we were on our dates when were first dating. We laughed so much and we would crack jokes back and forth the whole date. That was the best!

Lots of good food here! I want to come back and do my food shopping here! ha! ha!

Just cruzing! My hair was messy but I didn't care it was a carefree good time kind of a day!

John's hair didn't move! ha! ha! I know I'm a dork! ha! ha!

This was our room we stayed in at the Steam boat Inn. It was neat and there was a fire place in our room. It was chilly there at night too, so it was perfect. It was funny cause everything closed at 5:00pm there so we didn't know what to do with ourselves. So we went to dinner and drove the little car every where around there and got lost and then finally gave into the night and called it a day and watch cable movies the rest of the night.

This was the Steam boat Inn. This is where we stayed. It was great! We even got a great breakfast there in the morning!

The next day we milked cows!

I thought this was cute!

This was my first time seeing a turkey up close...they are ugly! I think he even scared me at one point!

The billy goats cracked me up! Cute too!

We met this donkey too!

This big sheep guy too! He needed a bath...he didn't smell good!

These are the Amish people cars. They use buggys. They are very basic people. I wonder if this is a BMW buggy! He he! I just had to joke!

Okay this right here is where we got to peak and see how the Amish people live. This is a young boys room. Very simple and the kids are just as busy as their parents. This was neat to learn.

This was a young girls room again nice and neat and clean and simple. The way I like it! The shoes caught my eye. All hand made!

The quilts are amazing! My mom would be loving that part!

They make their own clothes too. No buttons on the womans garments...guess what they use? Push pens! Ouch! What a pain, ya know!

This was their kitchen. They do have modern applicances these days but all run on gas or propane very green friendly kind of people. They take care of our earth in so many ways. We should learn from them here.

I love the canned goods. That brings back memories from my child hood when my mom did canning! It's the best! I want to do more of it!

This was funny too...these are the cover bridges we see in so many paintings and movies but the funny part is this place was very hilly so when we were driving up one we can't see ahead and we learned real quickly that there could be a buggy down the hill...so we almost hit a buggy there. John and I were cracking up...I know we shouldn't laugh but we were cracking jokes on what our insurance card exchange would be! ha! ha! I'm telling you John & I have too much fun when it's all carefree.

We also learned that you can tell a Amish home is when they hang green curtains on their windows and the yards and house is very manacured. Heres some we saw.

This Amish kid was riding the hills on his scooter! Weeeeeee!!!!

The last stop we went to was in this little historic town and I loved all the houses here, so I'm gonna give a house show here through this town.

This is where we stopped to eat our last lunch here. We had fudge too! Yum!

All the details in these old homes!

I liked this door on this house.

Well this was the end of our great little weekend road trip. I can't wait to do this again. I learned so much in such a short amount of time and soaked it all up! What a nice little treat to our crazy life we have. I enjoyed going through it again with you all.