It's Official. We've Lost Our Minds

We are currently in Lancaster, PA. Well, near there, anyway. A few weeks ago, I had the brilliant idea to come up here for a weekend. We love this area, Aaron already had today off work, and we could see all the Christmas decorations. So we left early this morning. The kids slept off and on until we got to DC. Just past DC, Jacinda started screaming. At first, we thought she was just tired of being strapped in her seat. Then it occurred to Aaron that the last time she was in a car for that long was in China when she left the foster family and came to meet us. So we're not sure if today's trip was triggering some bad memories or not. We really hope that she didn't think we were taking her somewhere and planning on leaving her.

We stopped just north of Baltimore to eat lunch at Baja Fresh. Yes, we plan our vacations around where we want to eat. More on that later ..........

Our plan was to go to Hershey, PA tomorrow morning and go to Chocolate World. Well, we had a crazy idea to go tonight and go not only to Chocolate World, but Hershey Park as well. It is their Christmas thing, and we thought it would be fun to see Santa and his real reindeer and to ride some rides. Sounds fun, right? Well ..........

It was 45 degrees outside ..... and the wind chill ....... around 39 degrees. Yes, that's right, we walked around a theme park for several hours in 15 mph winds. Fortunately, the kids were dressed approriately, although they could barely walk! They had on fleece pants, heavy coats, hats, and mittens. Aaron and I on the other hand were not so fortunate. Aaron had on jeans, a long sleeved t-shirt, and a fleece pullover. I had on jeans, a light sweater, and a heavy coat. I had left my gloves and scarf at home. The wind was whipping right through my jeans. Needless to say, we were pretty cold. I seriously do not know what possessed us!!!!!! We did have fun, though. Luke thought the rides were just the best thing ever.

After all that, we went to one of our favorite restaurants ever ... Isaac's Restaurant and Deli. It's basically a sandwich place. They have some sandwiches on bread made out of pretzel dough. YUM!!!!! And, it's a great place to take kids. When we sat down, they gave us the standard crayons and kids menu. They also gave each of the kids a small package of pretzel goldfish to much on. Brilliant!!!!!! We ordered and they brought the kids' side dish before the meal! Again, brilliant!!!!!!!! And the best thing is that we had a free sandwich coupon!!!!

Tomorrow's plan is to go to a few outlets in Lancaster, and then we're surprising Luke with his first real train ride!!!!! I think we might be more excited than he will be!!!!!

Oh, and we left our camera cable at home, so you'll have to wait for pictures until we make it home! Our camera is pretty much dead anyway, though. We're hoping it will hold out for the weekend.