PA - Part 1

Now that my summer semester is complete, I can finally get around to blogging....which is way more fun than going to school in the summer anyway.WARNING - the next few posts will have a mega number of pictures!

After Alex's baseball game, he and I drove to Minneapolis which is about a 4-hour drive from where we currently live. My flight left MSP at 10:00am and Alex was staying with his aunt and uncle in Eagan....which is where we're from. Alex stayed awake the entire trip up to the last 5 minutes of the drive chatting about how sure he was that Terry and Kathy (the aunt and uncle) missed him and how happy they would be to see him. Yeah...no security issues here.

My cousin Jody's daughter LaTasha flew with me since this was her first time flying and she was unsure of where to go and what to do. Being older and wiser and wanting to look out for the best interest of cousin Jody's daughter, I offered her advice that came in a pretty champagne glass called Mimosa's to ease her anxieties.

We had a lay over in Detroit so we met up at another airport bar. The best part about traveling for me is meeting people and I am a social sally when I'm on the road so kicking back in a bar was fun fun fun.



I just packed everything into one bag and carried it onto the plane, but Tash packed her apartment into a suitcase. Upon arriving in Cleveland, we realized that the airline left her bag in Detroit. Tash was singing at the wedding and everyhting was in her bag (literally everything she owned....she packed) so we ended up waiting in Cleveland for four hours until the next flight from Detroit arrived with her bag. The hotel where the wedding was at was in Cambridge Springs, PA and that's a two hour drive from Cleveland. I told Tash...you'd better stay awake and help me navigate. "Okay Amanda" she says. Thirty minutes into the drive...Tash is snoring away.

The area of PA where we needed to be at was located near Erie. The hotel had this antique ambiance to it and both LaTasha and I said, upon walking into the hotel, "It smells like Grandma Anderson's house".
I totally got lost going to the hotel and navigating was difficult because the area is a common wealth area and it is just township after township. The farm houses are right off of the road without driveways and there are tons of curves so you're only driving like 40mph. It's also a huge Amish area....which I will tell more about tomorrow.