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... of the little girls who play Sarah. They have had to cast three more little girls to alternate the role throughout the run. (Child Labor Laws....)<br><br>Rehearsals are going well and we open on Friday! YAY!!! The show will continue throughout the holidays and will close Dec. 31st. <br><br>Doing a Christmas show like this always makes me in a sentimental mood. Keep in touch - all of you!<br>Erica<br>

... SO WHEN WE ARRIVED IN NEWARK TO PICK UP OUR NEXT CAR FOR OUR TRIP TO PA, WE HAD HIGH HOPES OF OUR CLUB 1 MEMBERSHIP WORKING THIS TIME. NOT !!!! NO CAR, BUT THIS TIME WE DID GET AN SUV INSTEAD OF A SUB COMPACT, BUT 20 MILES INTO OUR TRIP THE TIRE PRESSURE LIGHT WENT ON, SO WE PULLED OFF AND FILLED ALL 4 TIRES WITH AIR. 20 MORE MILES THE LIGHT WENT ON AGAIN.....WE PULLED OVER AND CALLED HERTZ. THEY WOULD HELP US FIND A TIRE STORE ...

... experience that is coming and how it effects not only the lives of the families that we will build beside, but the lives of each and every individual on this trip. In the words of another colleague that was in Guatemala with me two years ago, "I came here to bless others, but I, in turn, have been far more blessed. I feel that my cup is overflowing because of it. My prayer for you is when you leave, your cup will be overflowing, too."<br><br ...

... sure enough, we showed up later in the evening to donate our blood! We went through all the paperwork, and donated simultaneously. It was actually kinda fun! I sipped two cans of Sprite and ate a few cookies while I saved a life.<br><br>We felt a little light-headed and very fulfilled :)<br><br>Well, tomorrow's our day off! We'll sleep in a little bit and head to New York (yikes, that could be crazy)<br><br>g'night!

This [extended] weekend, we're staying in a wonderful little motel--family owned, specializing in extended stays. So we have a little kitchenette, and a separate bedroom. How refreshing it is to say "Hey I'll be in the other room"<br><br>We're in the quaint little Pennsylvania town of Mohnton, and we're staying here just in time for the annual Pumpkin parade!<br><br>It was fun! Pictures attached!

... opened the doors and just kinda lounged. Why? I don't know. It was just nicer than being in our hotel room. We organized the van a little bit, read, talked... it was chill :)<br><br>That night, we decided to go watch a movie. So we drove to the next town over and watched The Invention of Lying. It's a very funny and clever movie, until the point when it gets downright sacreligious. I don't want to spend the time and blog space here to discuss it, but ...

1. Waking up bright and early we leave our Hershey, PA hotels and venture about 15 minutes to Indian Echo Caverns. Our adventure begins as we follow our guide through the underground limestone cave and stay in awe of the beauty. Though many tours are taken through the cave it is still conserved and the growth of most of the cave has been left untouched. The coolest part of this tour is when they turn ...

... Hum? We weren't sure if that was true or not, but we decided that we should sample the fare anyway. We had heard about a place where you can tour a house, go on a bus tour through the region, ride a buggy, etc. So as "Disney" as it sounded we decided we would give it a go and see if we couldn't at least learn something about these people. There it was "The Amish Experience" on a great big sign, so we pulled in to see what we ...

Today we started to head south to the state of Pennsylvania and to the centre of the Amish country. This was a full day of travelling being in the bus for 9 hours. During this time we travelled through many states. Starting off in Massachutsettes then into Connecticut, New York State, New Jersey and finally Pennsylvania. We commenced the day by stopping at a place near our hotel which contained a church, mill and school. The pictures today come from this stop.

... were going to leave later than we usually do to go on vacation.  We normally leave as early as possible but we wanted to leave later in the morning so that we could walk Oreo at a normal time and try to miss the morning rush-hour traffic around Manhattan and Philadelphia.  We had to start off the vacation right, though, so we decided to meet Aunt Stacy, Alan, and Alison at the Kings Plaza Diner at 8:00.  There was no way Mike was getting out of bed any earlier than he had ...