We slept until 7:00AM this morning. After an excellent complimentary breakfast that featured actual real food, we set off. We found ourselves at a cool place about an hour down the road from our hotel called the Seven Springs Resort. It's mainly a ski resort, but in the summer they have mountain biking, golf, and one of the coolest things we've ever done...Alpine Slides. I always wanted to ride one of these and I figured Jennifer and the boys would like to as well. I was right. Seven Springs is way up in the mountains of Pennsylvania. It looks like a great place for downhill skiing...and a perfect location for an Alpine Slide. Everyone loved the chair lift to the top. The dual tracks are 1980 feet long. There are lots of banked turns and sudden drops. Jennifer and Justin rode on their own sleds and Josh and I rode together. I guess they took one look at me and decided I couldn't safely pilot my own sled, so they paired me up with Josh. Sorry Josh! Anyway, we hooted and hollered all the way down the hill. We all wanted to ride it again, but a long ride home lie ahead so it was back in the van. Our only other stops today were for lunch at Wendy's in Pennsylvania and for gas and Slurpees at a Speedway gas station somewhere in Ohio. Other than that we drove, drove, drove. Oh yeah, we did stop for a quick photo at the Ohio border. Josh was sleeping when we finally hit the Michigan line, so we skipped that one. It was smiles all around when we pulled in to the driveway around 5:00PM after 12 days, 9 States, 32 Slurpees and 2126 miles. Sadly, the lawnmower fairy hadn't visited us while we were gone, so i have some cutting to do. We took our time unloading the van and putting things away. Tonight it's pizza for the boys and early bed for me. Work tomorrow...
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Home at Last
We slept until 7:00AM this morning. After an excellent complimentary breakfast that featured actual real food, we set off. We found ourselves at a cool place about an hour down the road from our hotel called the Seven Springs Resort. It's mainly a ski resort, but in the summer they have mountain biking, golf, and one of the coolest things we've ever done...Alpine Slides. I always wanted to ride one of these and I figured Jennifer and the boys would like to as well. I was right. Seven Springs is way up in the mountains of Pennsylvania. It looks like a great place for downhill skiing...and a perfect location for an Alpine Slide. Everyone loved the chair lift to the top. The dual tracks are 1980 feet long. There are lots of banked turns and sudden drops. Jennifer and Justin rode on their own sleds and Josh and I rode together. I guess they took one look at me and decided I couldn't safely pilot my own sled, so they paired me up with Josh. Sorry Josh! Anyway, we hooted and hollered all the way down the hill. We all wanted to ride it again, but a long ride home lie ahead so it was back in the van. Our only other stops today were for lunch at Wendy's in Pennsylvania and for gas and Slurpees at a Speedway gas station somewhere in Ohio. Other than that we drove, drove, drove. Oh yeah, we did stop for a quick photo at the Ohio border. Josh was sleeping when we finally hit the Michigan line, so we skipped that one. It was smiles all around when we pulled in to the driveway around 5:00PM after 12 days, 9 States, 32 Slurpees and 2126 miles. Sadly, the lawnmower fairy hadn't visited us while we were gone, so i have some cutting to do. We took our time unloading the van and putting things away. Tonight it's pizza for the boys and early bed for me. Work tomorrow...
Saturday, July 18, 2009
That was a long day
5 different States today. we started at 6:45AM and headed for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. It was 18.7 miles of stunning views of the ocean. Too bad it was so cloudy this morning. Oh well. By 11:ooAM it was sunny again. Along the way we stopped for pictures at the North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania borders. Good thing we're almost home because Josh has had it with the roadside photos. We drove between Washington DC and Baltimore, missing a ton of traffic going the opposite way. Our only stops today were for lunch and later for gas and refreshments. It was a long day of driving and we're all happy to be to the Quality Inn in Bedford, Pennyslvania. We rolled in at 5:30PM. The room looks real clean but the heated pool is reportedly quite chilly. We're going to bed early tonight so we can hit the road for the ride home early tomorrow morning.
Arby's for Jennifer and I...McD for the boys.
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