This weekend started off with Saturday evening and a pizza party to celebrate Louise’s 91st Birthday. Barbara made a chocolate truffle cake, this cake has over 1 pound of Chocolate in it and just about as much butter (see picture), total sugar overload. Louise’s great niece and grand nephew came from Ohio for the occasion; a good time was had by all.
Sunday morning Barbara and I packed up some clothes and some provisions and headed to Makayla’s Christening. It was a 3 hour drive to the Church at Hemlock Farms in Tafton, PA. As we where driving north on route 206 through Sussex county close to the school where Barbara taught, a black bear crossed the road two cars in front of us. At the church the minister made all the young children in attendance feel comfortable about what baptism is all about and what it represents. Back at young Larry and Laura’s house all the kids had lots to do, they have a pool and trampoline. There was plenty of good food and good talk; I think everyone had a good time. Barbara and I left and drove to Scranton, PA to our hotel. We where all set to go for a swim in the indoor pool, but someone had thrown some chairs and plants into the pool so it was closed. The room was clean and comfortable and we had a good nights sleep.
In the morning Barbara and I went to the Electric City Trolley Museum ( www.ectma.org ) in Scranton. It is a very nice museum that tells the story of the trolley systems that ran in and around the Scranton area. They even had commuter rails that ran from town to town.
After leaving the trolley museum we drove to Norristown, PA to the Elmwood Park Zoo ( www.elmwoodparkzoo.org ). The animals they have on display are all from the Americas. The animal program we saw was very good, I liked the tarantula best.
After seeing all the animals in the zoo we headed home.
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