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Another Anniversary, Another Trip To Amish Country, Part 2

3/9/2018

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...Continued from yesterday:
On Friday morning after a leisurely breakfast,
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...at The Berlin Resort's great breakfast buffet,
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...and after I'd made a dash to the front desk to once again nab first dibs at the 7 pm movie, Tom and I drove into town to commence doing what one does as a tourist in Amish country:  walking up and down the  street perusing  the Amish crafts shops, Amish edibles shops, Amish antiques shops, Amish book shops, Amish quilt shops, Amish candle shops, and all the the other Amish-themed establishments that line the commercial strip that is the town's mercantile artery.  
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   We started out at the German Village Center, a shopping mall at the starting point of the Berlin's strip,
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...where we shared the parking lot with cars and buggies.
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      After a once around the interior of the German Village Center,
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...we walked across the parking lot to Sol's Palace, a vast, multi-leveled emporium,
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...and a mecca for aficionados of country arts and crafts.
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     After our visit to Sol's we decided to drive a few miles down the road to the Amish & Mennonite Heritage Center,
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...famous for its  Behalt Cyclorama, a10-foot-high, 265-foot-long mural-in-the-round that tells the history of the Amish and Mennonite people.
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     However, as we'd already taken in the Behalt Cyclorama with the accompanying lecture twice previously we opted to just visit the Center's museum and book store.
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     When we'd finished our tour of the Amish & Mennonite Heritage Center we drove around the Holmes County countryside for a bit,
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...then on to the town of Charm for lunch at a little place we discovered on an Amish Country visit a couple of years ago and has since become our go-to-lunch venue, The Charm Family Restaurant,
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...where the ambience is wholesome,
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... and the food awesome.
     Tom had the perch with mashed potatoes and salad,
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...while I had a most excellent  veggie wrap with french fries.
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     After lunch we took another drive around the area,
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...then we drove back into downtown Berlin where we parked and strolled the strip.
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     We visited the Berlin Village Antique Mall,
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...which we found to be full of intriguing stuff.
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     In fact I fell under the spell of this  enchanting little tea pot and milk pitcher set which now resides on my kitchen counter.
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    And so we wiled away the afternoon along the Berlin commercial strip, then we returned to The Berlin Resort where we continued whiling away until it was time for dinner.
     We opted for an East of Chicago pizzeria in town on the edge of the strip, 
that has  a good pizza buffet and salad bar.
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    Then we returned to The Berlin Resort in time for the 7pm movie which I'd chosen that morning.
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    This time I chose "You Don't Mess With The Zohan," a political satire comedy in which Adam Sandler stars as an Israeli army officer and counter-terrorism expert who dreams of becoming a hair dresser.
      I laughed from start to finish.

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    On Saturday morning Tom and I packed up and checked out of the Berlin Resort, hoping that next time we came it would be with our grand kids, who love the resort's  miniature children's village.
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     Then we drove back into town and joined the other Saturday morning tourists for a farewell stroll up and down the Berlin strip,
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     Before leaving Amish Country we drove back to Charm for one more yummy lunch at the cheerful Charm Family Restaurant,
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...where Tom tried the meat loaf dinner, which he pronounced delicious,
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...and I went for a replay of the awesome veggie wrap I'd had the day before.
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     We topped off the meal with a shared slice of the most wonderful cherry pie served with a side of  most wonderful vanilla ice cream.
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    Then we headed back down U.S. route 62 towards Columbus and our suburb of Gahanna, a glorious sunset over which I captured later that evening.
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     Afterwards, going through the pictures I'd snapped during our trip I came across this one of a sign in front of one of the shops along the Berlin commercial strip:
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    I showed the photo to Tom and asked him what he thought. We both agreed that after 41 years of marriage we probably didn't need one.
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