Lehigh Valley

Yeah, I’m late… Too tired/busy/injured to do this earlier, but better late than never huh? Well, the story of our trip to Pennsylvania starts last week, at 4am for me as I went into the office at an ungodly hour so I could get a whole days work in before we left, so we left at 3pm with Robyn’s parents and after a few miles I was pretty much asleep.

When I woke up we were in Virginia… It’s a strange journey, about 90 minutes in North Carolina, 3½ hours in Virginia then about 30 minutes in West Virginia, 10 in Maryland and 2 hours in Pennsylvania… West Virginia and Maryland shoot past really fast. Anyways, We arrived at Robyn’s grandfather’s (hereby known as Pop-Pop) house at 11:30… We were all beat at this point.

Thursday morning I was shown around Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton, and for lunch I had the first of many, many steak sandwiches, I also got to see the Dixie Cup building and I even got to meet Maryann (Robyn’s godmother). That night we spent time with Dee and Tuna, having dinner at Neff’s Hotel then back to their home for a few after dinner drinks, Robyn and I also got a ride on Tunas Harley, they have a cat that looks exactly like Felix, actually, they have five cats (here’s another), and I thought we were bad with three…

The next day we visited Robyn’s great aunt Edna in her home before heading to Dorney Park for the evening, well, only me, Robyn and Ruth went. We had a great time, Robyn and her mom rode the big thrill rides I wouldn’t go on, they also went on a big water ride, ending up totally soaked afterwards. Robyn also went on the biggest ride I’ve ever seen…

On Saturday we celebrated Pop-Pop’s 91st birthday, albeit a little early, with a dinner and some cake afterwards. And then Sunday was the long drive home, another exhausting drive, even though I was the passenger… 8 or 9 hours in a car is very tiring, at least for me.

Lehigh Valley, PA. – July 2007 (set)

Originally uploaded by FLC.