Amish Country

Today, despite the heavy fog and rain, we made the hour and a half trek out to Amish country for some quick sight seeing. We'd heard that this was a beautiful area, and it really was. Lots of rolling green hills studded with cute farms and silos. We didn't get out of the car much because of the rain, but we did stop at a farmer's market to try the famous Pennsylvania Amish Shoofly Pie (delicious!) and to pick up some Winesap apples. We also bought some homemade rootbeer that one Amish family was selling in a shack in front of their house - very yeasty and yummy! We saw lots of fascinating Amish people, complete with some awesome straw hats. I didn't get any family photos, but I had to be a nerdy tourist and take some pictures of Amish things to show the family out west!

Here's one of the many big farms we drove by. EVERYONE had clothes on the line, despite the rain. It made me grateful for my lovely dryer.

Lancaster County is famous for covered bridges, and here's the one we drove under.

Here's one of the Amish buggies cruising down the road. I know it looks a little like Fred Flintstone is driving that thing, but there's actually a horse pulling it. Isn't that wild!?

They ride these crazy scooter/bike things that look like bikes minus the pedals. We actually saw a lady riding one with a baby in the basket.

Mike made me take this one. The town name makes immature people like us laugh and laugh. You can only imagine the zillions of comments Mike came up with! In fact, you can see his contributions in the comments to this post.