R.T. '09: Willow Grove PA to Front Royal VA

Yesterday was supposed to be one of the shorter drives of our road trip, in honor of my birthday. Somehow it felt like we spent all day in the car. We had breakfast in our hotel (crowded but semi-edible) and hit the road around 9:30. We stopped at the Elmwood Park Zoo in Norristown PA because we got in free with our Roger Williams membership. It was a really nice zoo actually, and the kids ran off some energy.

We drove from Norristown to the Lancaster area, with a stop in Paradise for a photo of the kids with the panic device. We stopped at the Strasburg Railroad, but we didn't go on a train ride because we were planning to go on a buggy ride. By the time we stopped at the pottery place for me to choose a birthday gift it started raining, so we skipped the buggy ride and went to lunch at Dienners, an Amish buffet. The food wasn't anything to write home about, but there was lots of it.

We thought we were headed straight to the hotel after our late lunch (a 3-hour drive), but we ended up taking a detour through Gettysburg. It's a nice auto tour and there's a big visitors' center with tons of artifacts from the battlefields and a huge bookstore. We left there at about 6:30 and got to our hotel at 8:30. Birthday dinner at McDonalds. Sirloin burger in lieu of cake. Went to bed alone, woke up with Aliya's feet literally in my face. It's obviously not my birthday any more.

More photos to follow...gotta hit the road.

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