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Finished the show I was watching last night around 2am. Another show, Half Ton Dad came on, about this black guy that was bedbound for several years. I watched that until 2:15am or so and decided to turn in for the night.

Actually got out of bed at 11am and talked about going to Amish Country in Lancaster. The drive starts in Morgantown. We have an hour drive to Morgantown then the entire scenic drive to Lancaster, which is the heart of the Amish Country I suppose. From there, we're driving straight back here.

I got in the shower at 11:30 and was out by 11:50, so I made a delicious cup of coffee and looked at some Shady Maple Farm Market & Smorgasbord coupons to see if we should print any, and here I am at exactly noon.

The weather right now is 28, feeling like 15 degrees. Cloudy and Windy. Middleburg is 48 feeling like 43 degrees. Sunny!

**Registered my mobile blog @ wincop417.blogspot.com so I can keep up to date with my postings. I want to see how it adds it (separate posts or whatnot, kind of like Twitter, but there is an option to merge it to my existing blog, I don't want it creating 50 new posts. This way, I can always use my mobile blog as a reference to copy and paste it over, then completely delete my mobile blog when I'm done. Also, I can send pics straight to it, so I can save those and transfer over. This was all completed at 12:15pm**

Now I'm looking at some other things to do in Lancaster. I was interested in seeing the 28 covered bridges. I love bridges! They are scattered, so I'm sure we'll see a bunch.

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We didn't see the bridges!

Anywho, we left for the Amish Country at 12:53PM. It was very cold! I saw the most beautiful scenic route through philly and some million dollar houses around 1:35pm. I would love to live there, or the city. It's nearly the same price, but it's more secluded over here, very beautiful though. At 2pm we stopped at Baja Fresh. I ordered two steak tacos @ $2.50 a piece! The walk inside was absolutely killer, it was VERY windy. We got back on the road at 2:37pm. VERY VERY windy, absolutely FREEEEZING. My hands hurt just walking from the restaurant to the car.

We reached the scenic route of the Amish Country around 3:37pm. There was lots and lots and lots of farmland. The land looked so beautiful with the sun. We saw about 10 horse carriages the whole day, and found out they had headlights AND blinkers. It's a shame I didn't get many pictures, I could have literally gotten a TON of pictures from the view. It was too hard since we were driving, and I didn't want to exactly pull over. It's too hard to get the artistic photos I want alongside the 500 pictures I've taken (literally 506 as of tonight) of trying to get pictures of everything I see for souvenirs and for others to see. Oh well!

At 5:05pm, we stopped at one of the largest pet stores, apparently. It's called "That Fish Place." It was pretty neat, they had all sorts of pets, and half the building was a fish store, I took some pictures. We saw some very beautiful saltwater tanks. Talk about pricy! They almost farm their own plants. They are about the size of a quarter and they are anywhere from $20-$200!

We arrived at the Smorgasbord at 6:15pm. We walked around the gift shop for 15-20 minutes. A lot of the furniture was VERY expensive, but very good quality, as it was made by the Amish. Then, we headed upstairs for the $20/person buffet! MAN was that nice. It wasn't the most perfect food, but it was definitely a high class Golden Coral. At 8:13PM we left the Smorg. Still VERY cold and windy. I was partially falling asleep on the ride home. We arrived at 9:25pm.

Philadelphia: 22 degrees, feels like 6 degrees. Clear and windy.
Middleburg: 37 degrees, feels like 31 degrees. Clear.

Done posting at 9:50pm. Going to sit back on the computer and watch TV for a bit.

Browsed the internet for a while, checking up on everything. Got a shower roughly before midnight and then got back on the computer. Chatted with a friend about his situations and tried to help him out. Now I'm going to bed at 1:42AM.