Alright, back to my vacation, which has now been almost forgotten...Day 3, Sunday August 19th
First stop: Breakfast at Schatt's Bakery. Famous, crowded, and wonderful...every visit to this area should include a trip to Schatt's! They have sweets, breads, cakes, cookies, doughnuts, sandwiches and all sorts of fabulous wares! Gavin bought some Swedish Fish (for LATER) and chose a doughnut for his breakfast, Ella picked out a HUGE apple turnover. Andy got a danish and I had a ... a..... um... I don't know what it's called, but it's a big circle of twisty, flaky pastry and it has cinnamon and sugar ALL OVER IT! I had this treat once or twice as a kid and have always loved it! After devouring our super sugar loaded breakfast, we were off!
Next stop: The store (we did that a LOT on this trip). We can only carry 1/2 gallon of milk in our lil fridge, and we went through one of those every 2 or 3 days....towards the end of the trip we could fit 2 in... thankfully! After a quick market trip, we were off to a little town, called Law's.
Law's has a Railroad Museum that is 11 acres of preserved buildings and trains and a depot and lots of grass and trees. It was really interesting to go into the different buildings and check out the old equipment. One building is set up like a printing press, a doctors office, a mercantile, and another is the livery and has a buck board in it and other farming tools... oh, and THIS:
It is a siamese lamb and it has 2 heads...it did not survive birth, but lives on in a glass case, at the Law's Railroad museum.
There are 2 houses that a preserved and fully furnished to show how people used to live and one thing that impressed me was that the linoleum from the 1920's still looked PERFECT and colorful and shiny. It looks MUCH better than the linoleum in my kitchen that was put in around 1950! Hmmm.... I guess that they really don't, "Make 'em like they used to". We had a great time hanging out and the kids explored and ran around and got good and tired before heading back to camp!
Back in camp, we were able to just hang out and relax a bit. Gavin took Sadie for a walk and Ella played in the dirt, and I read Harry Potter! The next day would be a busy one, so after our evening camp fire, we headed off to bed early so that we could get some rest!
Back in camp, we were able to just hang out and relax a bit. Gavin took Sadie for a walk and Ella played in the dirt, and I read Harry Potter! The next day would be a busy one, so after our evening camp fire, we headed off to bed early so that we could get some rest!
(just like I am going to do NOW!)
"Running the Rails"
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Have you finished Harry Potter? After reading #5 with Noah I was enthused to read #6 and #7 on my own, which took me only about a week. It is SOOOOOO good!
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