Sightseeing and barn sale

(Holiday ro-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-ad, holiday ro-o-o-o-o-ad!)

One week in New Jersey made it possible for us to do a little bit of everything.
We had donuts and watched a score of football games. Aaah! How we have missed college football!
Joakim got his Miller Lite beer (?) to make the experience complete.

During the days before Thanksgiving we went on a road trip to the Amish country up in Lancaster county, Pa. Pop-pop acted as the backseat driver with the cookies by his side.

After a while, horse and buggy scenes became more common which slowed down the traffic considerably. The landscape in Pennsylvania resembles the countryside in southern Sweden.
Since we live in politically correct Sweden and are well aware of the debate over the Kyoto protocol we think that the Amish way of fighting climate change is a pretty neat solution. When we visited the cute little town with the unfortunate name Intercourse (!) we saw buggies parked outside houses in town. The only bi-product of these vehicles is manure (and that's good for the farmers' soil).

On thanksgiving day we spotted this turkey that was going to be spared this year. He belonged to some neighbors and seemed to be more like a household pet than a walking future meal.


The day after Thanksgiving we teamed up with Tara's parents and her brother and hosted a barn sale with things from Tara's Mom-mom and Pop-pop.

Although it had been grey and pretty dull weather the day before, things seemed to clear up during the Friday and there were quite a lot of people that showed up as the garage doors were opened.





To the right is the back side of the house in New Jersey.







This house would be a perfect backdrop for a horror movie, according to Joakim! Cape May, New Jersey - it is hard to grasp that this was once a bustling coastal community and the oyster capital of the US.