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Today, we left for New Jersey.  Before we left we visited a few more Amish sites and returned to Intercourse for a few things.  We could not find Megan a shirt that she liked better than the one she first saw in Intercourse.  I also wanted some more homemade Amish Ice Cream from Lapps.  It has to be the best ice cream I have ever eaten.  The last thing I wanted us to do was take some pictures in front of Zimmerman’s Grocery Store.   Zimmerman was the store that the pay phone call was made from in the movie Witness.  I’ll have to watch the movie again when I get home.  It has been over 20 years since I last saw it.

I was not able to upload pictures from Day 2 until we got to our hotel in New Jersey.  You can view them below.

Tomorrow, we will get up early and visit the Statue of Liberty.  Then we are off to Canada. This will most likely be our last post.  We will have very little internet access for the next 6 days and our cell phones will be off while in Canada to avoid international fees.

We will try to twit some. You can follow updates at http://twitter.com/biged95 or http://twitter.com/meag95.

Last night, we stayed in old-fashioned caboose turned into a motel. The Red Caboose is an interesting place to stay. If you are ever around Paradise, PA it is worth at least one nights visit.

Yesterday, we went on a buggy ride to a working Amish farm. Today we plan to head back to Bird-in-Hand and Intercourse before heading to New Jersey to see the Statue of Liberty tomorrow.

The Internet at The Red Caboose did not work so this post is via iPhone.

You can say what you will about the Amish, but you can’t say they don’t have a sense of humor.  How could you not have a sense of humor when you name towns Intercourse, Bird-in-Hand, and Blue Ball.  We started the day driving around Bird-in-Hand then we went to Intercourse, PA.  We went on a horse drawn carriage ride around Intercourse before visiting some of the local shops.  We ate some of the best home made ice cream we have ever eaten.  We left Intercourse and went on a Northern Amish Countryside tour.  We saw a lot of the covered bridges that Melinda has read about in her Amish books.

We ended up in Blue Ball were we ate at the Shady Maple Smorgasbord.

Tomorrow we plan to visit an Amish Village, more shops, and maybe the Train Museum.