Lazy days in PA

We had a great time visiting Peter's parents last week. It was all very relaxing and went very quickly. The weather was so perfect all week! On Tuesday, we visited Bushkill Falls, which Peter had been to back in school.

There were some lovely paths and waterfalls. At one point Peter and Sammy and Meghan decided to take a side path to visit some more falls while Baba Grampy and Charlotte headed back to the entrance.

After lunch, the girls went mining for gems. The gift shop sold bags of dirt with small stones (mostly quartz) strategically sprinkled in. Outside there was a fountain with water following a long chanel where the girls could sift through the dirt to find the "gems".

Thursday we went to Crystal Cave. We told the girls we were going "Spelunking". Charlotte liked this word so much that later when Peter was playing on the Wii later, she said, "That red guys a spelunker just like us!" The cave tour was about an hour. There were lots of formations that resembled food or animals, and were named after them. That was fun. They also turned off all the lights and showed us total darkness. The girls handled this well. The neat thing was that before turning on the lights, they showed us the level of lighting that the original spelunkers would have had. It's hard to imagine they could determine anything!

We also got to go out for our Anniversary on Saturday, which was a lot of fun. Meghan made a cheesecake, but we decided to eat it on Friday. Sammy for some inexplicable reason doesn't like cheesecake, so we made some Apple cobbler instead. It was good, but not as good as I hoped.

On the way, Charlotte kept singing "Old Man Tucker." She didn't know very much of it, but it made her want to sing the name game song. She asked me to sing it for. She would not be deterred. Fortunately, she didn't notice I kept omitting the "banana fana fo" line.