Rights of Passage

Another daughter is on her way to fun and learning. We took dear daughter #2 to college on Saturday. She is gonna have the experience of her life! She has a great attitude and she has some fun classes. She has been emailing her new roommate and I know she will really enjoy the girls in her apartment. I am envious of her new opportunities and fun times she will experience. Needless to say, I got a little choked up as we drove off leaving her there. It's all apart of these kinds of transitions and I will never be good at it. We love her tons!

Hard at Work

Well, remodeling is going slow. DH has been working a lot in the evenings. Not much here being done while he is gone. We ordered the cabinets, appliances and countertop. The next step is to get the "box" out and have him build up the east wall a few inches, bring in the tape-man and then paint. Here DD#2 is hard at work pulling up the tack boards and base boards.

DH has been doing a beautiful job up on the ceiling. He is here putting on a second coat of paint.

The paint color is called "cement". I really love it! He hung the lights in ready to take the scaffolding down. 

Last Day 14

Time to head back home! This vacation totally rocked! We checked out of our hotel and headed for a nice brunch at a Diner on the Triple D television show. It didn't disappoint. 

The Red Arrow Diner

Lots of famous people had their names engraved on the counter where they sat. We headed over to drop off our van and a shuttle took us over to the Manchester airport. 
  Our flight took us down to Atlanta where we had a two hour layover. There again, good old McDonald's for dinner and a dark journey back to the Salt Lake Airport. 

Day 13

Happy Birthday DD#3!
Unfortunately we had the biggest driving day of the whole vacation on her birthday. We left the Hotel and went down to tour the Philadelphia Mint. Enjoyed it! Drove towards New Hampshire stopping a little above Providence at an Ice Cream Parlor. We sang "Happy Birthday" over a cone. Had troubles finding ice cream parlors on the good ole' GPS. One of the places she led us to was directly on someones driveway in the middle of no where.  Heck if the owner of the home knew where the ice cream parlor was. We had a laughing time finding a place. We checked into the Manchester Sheraton and the girls went swimming. 

Day 12

It's Sunday. We slept and slept. We slowed down the day because #2dd had a horrible cough. She has been sick the last couple days. We are in Philadelphia. It's a pretty city, at least where we are staying. It's the 5th largest city in America. I can attest to that! Sure has some beautiful old buildings too.
   We drove uptown to see the Liberty Bell. It was very hot today,(and humid).

We didn't get tickets for the Independence Hall because they were so limited and the crowds are many. We took a few pictures. 

    From there we went back to Lancaster for a Sunday drive. We saw Amish buggies and lots of families on their porches. TOO COOL.  The countryside is just beautiful like a post card! The beautiful large white homes, red barns and grain silos are a sight. 

   We drove back to the hotel area and found a place where we ordered pizza, Philly sandwiches and chicken wings. Good food and nice people there. We went back to the hotel and watched a movie. Good relaxing day.

Headed toward Providence, RI