Our Travel Adventure: Part 1
View of Hershey, Pennsylvania
Jed is exceptionally well traveled for such a little kid. He’s been entirely across New York State, and has visited Vermont, Montreal, and Quebec City. This last week we added Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., Virginia, Maryland, and Deleware and New Jersey, respectively, to his list. We were only gone five days, but it feels like two weeks!
Bron had a conference to attend in Harrisburg, PA for two days, so Jed and I came along for the ride! We left early Tuesday morning. It was an eight hour drive, but I came prepared with a bag of toys and books with which to entertain the little man. Jed even got to experiment with feeding himself for the first time. Man, we’re getting good at this travel stuff! We have been blessed with an extraordinarily good-natured baby. Jed is a really happy boy. He only fusses when he’s tired, hungry, or frustrated. The entire five days we dealt with only one meltdown.
A first time experience: Chowing down on rice crackers
Because the hotel the conference was in had no vacancy, we stayed in a slightly cheaper adjacent hotel. We lived in the lap of luxury for three nights! Bron booked us a suite with a king size bed and jetted bathtub. We found that if we squirted just a little baby soap into the tub and turned on the jets, we got bubbles two feet deep! Jed had a ball.
My baby boy enjoying a big bed after a warm bubble bath
Chocolate World!
A little kid in a GIANT candy store!
Outside of Lancaster, Jed and I stopped at various Amish stores to browse (there was a ton of cute decorative stuff!) and even visited an Amish farm to see some miniature horses. It was fun to see horses and buggies driving down the same road I drove and to see Amish children at play in their schoolyard. For lunch, I decided to eat where the locals typically dine to try to get an accurate feel for the community. There was a twenty minute wait. “All right,” I thought, “this is going to be good!” And good it was! Jed attracts a lot of attention. We had every old lady in the vicinity gathered around to gab about him. I also got to sit at my table near the front of the restaurant and watch people come and go. There were all sorts, including all sorts of Amish. I had a great time just people watching. And the food was pretty good too. (Sorry, no pictures of this because I thought it would be a little disrespectful and just plain kinda weird.)
Some snapshots of Gettysburg in the evening
We watched this soldier sit quietly and play his trumpet as if we had stepped back in time.
Then we watched him drive away in a Nissan.
What a great trip! Glad to see that you haven't slowed down the fun even with a baby:) We are taking our first road trip 13 hours next Tuesday with little Hazel. I hope she does as well as Jed!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun trip! I love Jed's little red hairs! He's so dang cute. And all that chocolate!!! That was torturous just looking at it. And I think it's awesome Bron's into all the American history. Not a lot of people know or even care to know that stuff. I love the soldier picture. It looks like it was taken a long time ago, you should enter it into a contest! I can't wait to see you!!
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