This weekend, Ryan was in-between rotations. [So he just finished on one Thursday and would be starting his next on Monday] Which means...dun, dundun DUUUUUUNNNNN...WE GOT TWO WHOLE DAYS TO SPEND TOGETHER!!
We took full advantage and decided to tackle one of the larger/farther things on our Philly Bucket list...Bucks County. The County of Bucks.
You know that "Country" magazine? [Probably not, I know]
My grandparents always had that in their house when we were growing up, and my sisters and I would always look through them trying to find the elusive needle. Anyways, they would feature a different area of the country in each magazine in the "This is God's Country" feature. You know, areas that are all nature-y and almost unbelievable because they are that beautiful. Well, I'm am certain that most of the pictures they show for that feature are taken in Bucks county.
Bucks county was so pretty!! Ryan was in heaven. Every turn we made or house we passed (they were rare), he would be like, "WHOA! Look at that!" or "OOO!! LOOK OVER THERE!" or "WOW!!!" It was a good thing I was driving and he wasn't.
First, we drove to one of the many [11] covered bridges in Bucks, the Erwinna covered bridge. Apparently it's known for it's lattice structure...but the others that we saw later looked the same. Whatever. It was still cool.
Then, we drove to Peddler's Village. Which is super touristy, but that was kind of the point of our day. Naturally, our first stop was at a cute candy store where we bought candy cigarettes and each picked out a treat from the chocolate case. Since they were holding their annual strawberry festival (not as cool as it sounds), they had live music. So we sat on a bench, listened to the banjo-led music and enjoyed our chocolates. Ryan with his chocolate-covered s'more and me with a dark chocolate pecan turtle.
After walking around the village, we had dinner at Hart's. A simple little country restaurant with a variety of stuff to choose from. Kind of like a bigger Yum-yum tree (Oh, Yum Yum, how I miss you!!) (Those who aren't from Brighton, Yum Yum Tree is our little downtown restaurant. It's super cute.) I got a burger and Ryan got fish and chips...and get this...our meal was only $21!!! WHAT IN THE WHAT?! We definitely weren't in the city anymore!!
After dinner, it was still light out so we headed out to see 2 more covered bridges, in hopes that we would finish around sun down and could go to the Rocky Overlook to see the sunset and then the 'super-moon'.
Turns out it was way to cloudy to see the super-moon.
Also turns out that the rocky overlook overlooks a lot of tree trunks...so...not quite the view we were expecting. Still cool though and we enjoyed our mini-hike.
We had a great time and often wondered if this is what married life would feel like for us if Ryan wasn't in school. Maybe in a few years we'll get to regularly enjoy each other's company. As for now, I've got the week off and plan to make the most of it!
We took full advantage and decided to tackle one of the larger/farther things on our Philly Bucket list...Bucks County. The County of Bucks.
You know that "Country" magazine? [Probably not, I know]
My grandparents always had that in their house when we were growing up, and my sisters and I would always look through them trying to find the elusive needle. Anyways, they would feature a different area of the country in each magazine in the "This is God's Country" feature. You know, areas that are all nature-y and almost unbelievable because they are that beautiful. Well, I'm am certain that most of the pictures they show for that feature are taken in Bucks county.
Bucks county was so pretty!! Ryan was in heaven. Every turn we made or house we passed (they were rare), he would be like, "WHOA! Look at that!" or "OOO!! LOOK OVER THERE!" or "WOW!!!" It was a good thing I was driving and he wasn't.
First, we drove to one of the many [11] covered bridges in Bucks, the Erwinna covered bridge. Apparently it's known for it's lattice structure...but the others that we saw later looked the same. Whatever. It was still cool.
Then, we drove to Peddler's Village. Which is super touristy, but that was kind of the point of our day. Naturally, our first stop was at a cute candy store where we bought candy cigarettes and each picked out a treat from the chocolate case. Since they were holding their annual strawberry festival (not as cool as it sounds), they had live music. So we sat on a bench, listened to the banjo-led music and enjoyed our chocolates. Ryan with his chocolate-covered s'more and me with a dark chocolate pecan turtle.
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| My camera was running out of batteries, so I only had a shot at one photo. Ryan was hardly cooperative. See above photo. |
Turns out it was way to cloudy to see the super-moon.
Also turns out that the rocky overlook overlooks a lot of tree trunks...so...not quite the view we were expecting. Still cool though and we enjoyed our mini-hike.
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| Right? What kind of "look-out" is this?! |
Nice post Nan. I would love to see all those covered bridges. They look so quaint and beautiful. Funny, I thought your sentence..."So we sat on a bench and listened to banjo led music and ate our chocolates" was going to read..."So we sat on a bench and listened to banjo led music and puffed on our candy cigarettes." Sounded appropriate for the atmosphere you were in! Glad you had a fun week-end with some time together. Nothing beats that. Love you.
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