Our 2nd Anniversary!! - May 23rd

I will just start by saying that my dear husband had to be one of the happiest men in the world when he asked if we could take the motorcycle and I said yes : ) !!! It was his turn to plan our anniversary (we trade off planning every other year), so he surprised me with a lovely camping trip! We left Sterling with my parents and headed out on Friday afternoon into southern Pennsylvania.
We had the most wonderful weekend together! It was so sweet and refreshing to just have time to reconnect with each other surrounded by the peace and beauty of God's fabulous creation! We laughed together more that we had in a while! I told Tim it was like we both turned into comedians for a couple days! The greatest story of our weekend was - looking forward to going to bed the first night only to find that our air-mattress had gone flat! It wouldn't have been half so bad had it not been a really cold night and the ground just sucked all the warmth out of us!!! We settled in as best as we could and fell asleep. I woke up about an hour later hoping that it was near morning only to find that it was midnight. Some how that hit my funny bone and the only thing that stopped my laughing was that my dear husband wasn't quite so amused : ) We fell back to sleep only to wake up hourly until dawn. By the second time that we woke up Tim began to see the humor so we laughed till we cried each time we woke up! At some point we scooted as far to one side of the mattress as we could and Tim pulled the rest of it over us for another layer : ) Oh what memories we created!!! My philosophy on things like that is that memories are better made when things don't go quite as planned!

Loaded down and ready to go! Tim managed to fit ALL of our camping gear, food, etc. onto the bike - I was very impressed!

Beautiful drive!


Our first morning - eating oatmeal out of the pan together : )

Tim made a really yummy taco salad for dinner the second day!

My handsome husband!!

My great provider : )

Our little tent.


The Iron-master's Mansion
The park where we camped is the location of the former Pine Grove Furnace, an iron furnace that operated for 131 years. We had a lot of fun exploring the history of our surroundings. The highlight (especially because we just happen to be reading Uncle Tom's Cabin together) was finding out that the Iron-master was part of the Underground Railroad. His mansion had been built with 3 hidden rooms under it and we had the privilege of a personal tour of them.

The round windows were used as signals for approaching refuge seekers.

Just to give you an idea of how small the hidden rooms were...Tim is standing on the ground here.

This is all the further I could stand in the underground room.



Packed up and ready to head home. After having such a great time together it was exciting to anticipate seeing our little man!!!