Amish country here we come ….

As we didn’t need to be out of our room until 11.00am today and having stayed up late binge watching a Netflix series called ‘Behind Her Eyes’ (bloody brilliant), we only ventured out of bed at 8.30am.

We had breakfast and then packed the last few things before meeting our Uber at 11.00am. It’s only a 10min drive to the train station so we were there quick and our train didn’t leave until 12.45pm. We did Dave’s favourite pastime of people watching.

All Kenz wanted from America was a Philly’s Eagles hoodie and we couldn’t find any in Philly (well we did at a sports store who wanted $180 for it which I refused to pay). Well low and behold the train station had one so we got that for her.

So happy we paid the little extra for business class seats as the line for coach was HUGE!

A quick hour train trip and we were at Lancaster Train Station and we went looking for the car hire place. I reserved one from Hertz that said they were situated at the train station. We walked around and around and couldn’t find anything. We asked the lady at Amtrak and she gave us the address which was nearly a kilometre away. No biggy if we didn’t have 1 large suitcase and 1 carryon each.

After googling for a while I finally found a phone number for Hertz and they said that on their website it says you have to organise a pickup. I said when I booked it said nothing about that but all good as they sent someone over to collect us.

Went back to the car hire place, paid for the car and we were we on our way. Dave didn’t want to drive so it was up to me! We were given a red Kia Forte which is the Kia Cerato in Australia (which so happens to be the car I wanted to buy but we ended up getting an Isuzu MUX, if we ever get it!). A quick look over the car and connecting Apple play so I had maps and we were off. I even drove on the interstate. I have driven heaps in the States before but each time I do I get nervous but it’s really just like riding a bike, you never forget!

Where we are staying is about 20 minutes from Lancaster and the drive went perfectly. We made our way to our room, looked at the size of the fridge and then headed out again to Walmart to get some food, clothes for Tommy and another carryon suitcase.

Back at our room just in time to witness our first Amish sunset. Looking forward to exploring tomorrow and the next 5 days. As we were driving here we saw our first Amish horse and cart and have seen quite a few trot past our room.Leia mais