I'm here in Lancaster, PA. I suppose I should start at the beginning of our trip.
On Thursday morning, mom and I got going at around 9 am and headed north. We drove through NC and VA on Thursday. We stopped in Harrisonburg, home of James Madison University and Eastern Mennonite University, on Thursday night. JMU is beautiful and has a sprawling campus with a really cool quad type of area with all of the old admin buildings and amazing grass. Really amazing grass.
On the way up on Thursday, Intell's president called me and basically told me to get to Lancaster by 11 am the next day. So on Friday, we got up early and headed to PA. The road up through there (I-81?) is funny because you go through WV for about half an hour and then MD for not much longer. It's very quick after spending so long in VA. Anyhow, we drove through PA and had dueling directions: AAA vs. GPS (sorry, GPA would NOT have been able to help us, though he would have tried). We chose to stick with AAA directions, which took us through every small town and traffic jam possible, but we got there right on time. The first thing we did was force the president of the company to walk to my apartment because he couldn't fit in my car. Fortunately, he's a good sport about just about everything (except being late), and insisted that he could carry some of my stuff inside. After that, we took a plant tour and then went to lunch at the company's restaurant.
Mom stayed the weekend and on Saturday we went to the downtown market. They have food and flowers and amish quilts and crafts and all sorts of things. Also, we went to the quilt museum. All of the quilts in the gift shop are hand quilted by local Amish women. After that we went driving toward Intercourse, where there was a community auction. One side of the road had parking for cars, while the other side had buggy parking. Honestly, you think people make up the Amish way of life, but it's the truth. That evening we went to the local farm team's game, the Lancaster "Barnstormers," who took the first inning 10-0. We didn't stay long after that.
On Sunday, mom went home.
Monday was the first day of work. We (Kirsten and I) had to go get drug screens, then we had lunch with the company's president again. That afternoon, we went to the Mailing and Fulfillment center, which is a very interesting place to see, but I got sick. I don't know what was wrong with me, and they took me home. I took a 2 hour nap, and then I slept 12 hours that night, which was excellent.
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Here are some pictures:
My apartment
This is the Barnstormer's stadium:
And the train station:
3 comments:
Thankyou thankyou Amy. Gpa and I will read and reread every word...I'll bet it will be beautiful there soon when the leaves start to change. Our local tour group goes up there every fall just to see the leaves and to eat the amish food.
I like your blog, too, dear Amy! I hope you feel better and that your work is interesting.
Go to the A/T and walk a few miles:)
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