bodner033

Dan and I are at that age where he has worked the same job long enough to have built up a decent amount of vacation time...  but not enough to be a millionaire and buy me a private jet to fly to see our grandchildren every time he has time off.  Welcome to the empty nest years.   Now it sounds like I'm whining a bit, but we are ridiculously blessed (just not financially wealthy), and we DID manage a trip earlier this year to the grand canyon, and to visit our grandchildren, and Dan even managed to get some time off when the kids were all home to visit this summer.  So this last week of vacation...  I'm unsure why exactly he scheduled it.  I think he thought some of the children would be home, and then their plans all changed..  but I'm unsure.  No matter his reasoning, he had a full week off, 5 days in a row  (although he HAS a good bit of vacation time, when he can actually take it is limited) with two week-ends - for a total of 9 days....

The "Lower" Restaurant.  There's a second restaurant up the hill, right next to this. I originally saw this place on one of the many roadside PA facebook groups I follow.  I thought it would be a fun place to stop for lunch on our way to the ASPGB 2017 - and I was not disappointed. There's normally an amish buggy here, being pulled by either the dinosaur or Sasquatch - but it was missing when we were here.   I've seen photos of an alpaca and goats here..  near this barn area.  We didn't see them when we stopped, they might have all been inside? There's a lot of road noise if you eat outside, but we sat right at the front of the outdoor seating, not realizing that there was more outside seating behind the walk up counter.  Just go back past the party barn, and you can sit between the train cars below, and the back of the lower restaurant. There are train cars everywhere you turn... I really wanted to play mini golf - but we didn't have time, and I'm...