Vacation Part 2 - Amish Country

Look at the beautiful countryside! Everything was so very green, I just loved it. On this day, Aaron, the kids and I went to Lancaster to see the Amish Country. We went to a small Amish village where they had little shops and some places to eat. I ate my first ever amish lunch. Mine was really good - Aaron didn't like his so much.

After we ate lunch we set out to find the Strausburg Railroad. They have records showing that the railroad was opperational as far back as 1851. Around the 1950's, when it wasn't as useful for passengers and freight they opened it to visitors and started restoring old passenger cars like the one below.

It was a relaxing, enjoyable and beautiful ride through the amish country. We saw people with the hoarse and buggies. We saw little amish boys playing in their cute brown pants, white shirts and suspenders. We also saw a man farming with his horses pulling his plow.

Here is Aaron, Nathan and Lexy waiting for our train to leave.

The engines are coal-burning steam engines. We found this day to be very enjoyable. The kids even had an opportunity to ride their own little cars.

I took the picture below mainly for my grandmother. She has stories from when she grew up and she and her cousin would play near the railroad stations and once rode on one of these hand-cars and got in a lot of trouble. So when I saw this I just had to get a picture of the kids on it.