Day 7 – Today started with another really good breakfast at the B&B: scrambled eggs with cheese, sausage, some really good coffee cake, fresh fruit, and orange juice. The kids went out to gather eggs after breakfast. Kelsey was an old pro at doing this since she helped a couple of days ago.

Our agenda today was to drive the back roads through Amish country. Our host family put together a back road route with places they thought were good to stop at. Our first stop was a place that sells farm toys. There was every kind of John Deere farm toy imaginable at this place. They also had Breyer horses, so Kelsey found a new friend to bring home. His name is Barley.

Next stop was Lititz. This little town has a chocolate museum and store called Wilbur’s. While we were waiting for the store to open, we found a park with a feed dispenser for the ducks. Kelsey let most of the feed fall to the ground because the ducks were crowding around her to be fed! Wilbur’s was less commercialized than Hershey, we found chocolate buds here and some chocolate soap. It smells really great: Orange Chocolate and Chocolate Raspberry Truffle. We are saving the Chocolate Raspberry Truffle soap for someone’s 50^th birthday later on this year!

Then we stopped at a couple of homemade quilt stores. The quilts were absolutely beautiful! While driving through this area, we saw our first Amish buggies and people working the fields with horse drawn farm equipment. We found the pretzel store that started the Auntie Anne’s pretzel chain for a quick snack. I thought the hot dog and cheese pretzel wrap was pretty tasty with that cold lemonade!

After a couple more stores we browsed through, we worked our way toward the Lapp Family Farm. Here they raise Swiss cows and sell fresh milk, butter, eggs, and homemade ice cream. While we were there, we witnessed a little calf out roaming around. He was rather cute, but looked a little lost.

While we continued our drive on this really hot and humid day, the kids both took short naps in the back of the car as we drove towards Lancaster. Our stop here was Wheatland which was James Buchanan’s home before, during and after his presidency. It was rather interesting to tour his home, being the 15^th President of the United States. After he died, he left the home to his niece. She eventually sold the home, but the James Buchanan Foundation acquired the home in the early 1900’s. The home has a lot of original furniture and items in the home.

We headed back to the B&B for some rest time before getting some dinner. After dinner, we had to start figuring out where everything was going to go in the luggage! We acquired just a few things on the trip and they had to get home somehow!

After dinner, Kelsey spent some time riding around on the little tractor toy and playing with the kittens. We got everything we needed to into the luggage and went to bed somewhat early so we would be ready to wake up at 5:45am to get ready to head to Philadelphia for the flight home.