Mother / Daughter Weekend

My mom and sister flew to Pennsylvania for a dance related trip, so I took Thursday and Friday off of work to spend with them. I drove to York, PA late Wednesday night. Thursday while my mom was at meetings Tiffany and I went to the Harley Davidson factory to check out the bikes and see how they are made. It was actually a lot more interesting than we thought it would be. I would recommend that Hog fans make the journey. We had a lot of fun trying on all of the bikes for size. After the tour we were starving, so I introduced Tiffers to the wonderful culinary experience that is Five Guys burgers and boardwalk fries. Of course after that we were uncomfortably full, so we decided to stop eating and do some shopping.

When Mom finally got out of meetings we drove to Hershey, PA. We thought the street lamps were adorable, we ate ice cream Sundaes bigger than our heads (we really should have shared...we could not even come close to finishing them!), and we took the riding tour of the chocolate making process presented by singing cows. And of course no mother/daughter trip would be complete without lots of shopping, so we had to score some great finds at the Hershey outlet stores!

Thursday night we stayed at the cutest B&B in Mt. Joy, PA. Friday morning we were up early for a huge breakfast, and then a hay ride around the farm. Farmer Jim gave Mom, Tiff and I some coveralls to keep us warm - we looked stylish! After the hay ride we fed (and milked) the sheep and chickens, played with the baby Pygmy goats, and collected the eggs. It was a riot. You would think we were city folk the way we got a kick out of the animals and the farm experience...but no, we've actually got our own farm and owned quite a few of those animals at one time or another. Ha ha.

We left the farm and drove to Bird-in-Hand, PA and Intercourse, PA to get the Amish experience. I was impressed with the HUGE fabric stores! We had fun just browsing shops with Amish made goods, eating treats from Amish bakeries (most notable of those being Immergut hand rolled pretzels dipped in cinnamon and sugar...they were so good we went back and bought three more), and driving around the back roads through the farms. Being the farm girls that we are, and accustomed to using enormous tractors to plow our land, we were so impressed with the humble and hard working men out pulling their plows with horses.