Ramada Limited Delaware Water Gap

So it may be sappy to have a journal entry the day BEFORE our road trip starts, but seriously...our cats are going through some sort of withdrawal. They can sense that we are leaving for 5 weeks.

We made sure that good people will be taking care of them, and we laid down some ground rules for Rocky and Oliver (the cats):

1) No more than 5 lbs of ...

... of the visit. The wonders of the 3-yr-old mind!

When we picked up our tickets at the entrance we were given 5 tokens for each child. These tokens were to be used for some crayola vending machines outside the demonstration area. In total each child put in their token and received a specific crayola item (markers[3] and crayons [4]). We proceeded to the first area,which consisted of a section to use modeling clay, an for 5+ to use melted crayon wax ...

we took the kids to the Strawberry Harvest Festival at Alstede Farms in Chester, NJ.

Besides picking delicious strawberries the farm had other great activities such as pony rides, hay rides, moonbounce ...

Gramps lives in a cute little house on Culver Lake in NJ ~ cute as a button, both he and the place. I love the water & the town & the company, & it's one of the most comfortable places I've been. I'm looking forward to the next time we visit, when Gramps will make me an Old Fashioned in the evening while we sit overlooking the moon reflecting on the lake in the eve, and eggs over easy just the way I like em in the morn.

One more day. I'm so excited! We finished packing today and somehow manage to fit the whole shopping cart of extra supplies. Good thing cotton balls are light and they make excellent packing material. Two 50 lbs bags each. That's 20 bags total or 2000 lbs! wow.

... us that he drives that route six days out of the week - 2 to 4 times a day). Sigh. Then another 3 hour layover in Newark and onwards to Seattle. I am on the wait list to be upgraded... yay?! Oh yeah, the leaves are starting to turn out here. What a change from coconut trees and plumerias!

"Every heart which earnestly asks, Which is the path to God? is shown. Each is given a heartfelt Truth. Come to Me along the path of your heart, not through a journey of you mind. You will never find Me in your mind. In order to truly know God, you have to be out of your mind." Quoted from God, Conversations with God - Neale Donald Walsch I'm at a loss for words ...

... have fallen by now. I would have gone sauntering through them, but with all the rain I would have needed some hip waders. Sorry...no pictures. I left the camera in the trailer. Hey! It was raining when I left. They are promising beautiful blue skies tomorrow. I do believe I will stick around for another day. I've started having doubts about this Journey. Maybe I should have stayed home. Am I just ...

... d have a long driving day so I stuck to the Interstate, though I knew it would be more stressful. I might be a slow learner....but I am learning. I don't believe everything the GPS says...anymore. It was suppose to be the "faster" route that it was showing me. Since I'm learning that that might not always be true, I checked what route it was showing on a paper map , before actually getting there. Well....the route it said was ...

My First Assignment was in East Stroudsburg, PA. I stayed several months here and was able to enjoy winter, spring and summer. A few years later, I did see the beautiful fall foliage. While here, I did a lot of exploring, hiking and a couple of trips into NYC and one to Philadelphia. I loved visiting Bushkill Falls, one of my favorite places to get away. I also went to the Crayola Factory in Easton, PA.