Tuesday May 29th 2012 - Intercourse Pennsylvania

Tuesday May 29th 2012 - Intercourse Pennsylvania

Spent most of the day In Intercourse Pennsylvania. There is a little touristy area called "Kitchen Kettle" that has various crafts and homemade preserves etc. It was a bit touristy for us, but we did enjoy the very best Ice Cream ever made by an Amish Farm.... they also made their own potato chips and we had a bag each for a $1 extra with the ice cream.... oh my goodness. Miss Vicky's move over!!!!!

Home made potato chips (crisps to you in UK)

There were some Banjo players that we sat and watched with a Latte in hand and then we took off to explore a bit. Found a great kitchen shop and bought a pot spoon holder. Called Harry .... happy 94th. Explored an great little Amish furniture maker and marvelled at the workmanship... just amazing. He actually made some rocking chairs from the wood/plastic combo (like trex)... sorely tempted but resisted. Went to pick up some groceries and discovered that beer is only sold at bars or at the "Bottle shop" ... so off we went on a hunt. Found the Bottle Shop.... basically a drive through shanty garage filled with cases of beer and a cash register!!! Bought 24 of our now favourite local beer YeungLing dark lager.... MMMM!! 24 for $17.87. They had our favourite UK beer Bass for $33 for 24 beer... amazing price considering how far it has come!!  Headed to the Amish butcher (Stolzfus) and bought a couple of home smoked pork chops and Keilbasa.  
Went to RV dealer looking for a patio mat.. but too expensive for our taste.. so we are still matless!!

Washing everywhere... Amish wash by hand..
one thing that would stop me converting!

Back to camp... went for a swim and read by the pool before BBQing pork.... suddenly the sky went black and the rain came down... thunder and lightening etc... rained mist of the night after that, but Derek did manage to finish BBQ under the canopy and it was amazing... earlyish night. Some photos from the day and instead of a sign of the day I took pictures of some great signs I saw while browsing through the Kitchen Kettle stores.

But oh how peaceful it all looks... but HARD work!!

The Amish in this area all have grey topped wagons..
This one was all grey. Cute little calf on its way to a new home...

 

BEST EVER ICE CREAM. (and chips)

Entrance to Kitchen Kettle Area

Lovely relaxing day .. watching music, drinking Latte

 

So many Amish buggies... gotta stop taking photos

Old order Amish are home schooled... these must be modern Amish children... or they are at a strict Amish school