Good Eats And Other Amish Country Attractions

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Good Eats And Other Amish Country Attractions

...Continued from yesterday:   
    We started off Friday morning with the yummy offerings of the Berlin Resort's breakfast buffet,

...my favorite being the  gooey  iced cinnamon rolls.

   After breakfast we drove back into Berlin to walk around the town and peruse the crafts stores, which in Amish Country are legion.

   We started with a big,  new, many-roomed store at the edge of downtown  called Country Gatherings.

     The interior was open and airy,

...and full of cute, bright, homey things,

...and cheerful, inspiration-themed decorative pieces,

....which one perused while gentle music and a light, pleasant potpourri wafted throughout the store.
    "Isn't this place soothing?" Tom asked as we strolled among the wares with fellow perusers.

    I agreed that it was indeed,

...as was the place next door,

...which was of a similar genre,

...down to the dulcet  music, pleasant potpourri,

...and up-lifting decoratives.

     We then continued up he block,

...stopping into some of the stores along the way to look at the merchandise on display.

    We stopped at a used book store,

...where the offerings were mostly of the chaste, wholesome,  variety,

...though I did, surprisingly, find this copy of Hemingway, which I bought.  I'm not a big Hemingway fan, but I did start reading the first few pages of this one and was hooked.

     "Think they'd stock my book?," I asked Tom in jest, even though I believe the story I tell ultimately has an altruistic, even spiritual  message about how we inhabitants of this big blue and green marble need to watch out for and care about one another. It's just that the characters in my book aren't very  wholesome or chaste.  (Definitely not chaste).

 We also stopped at a thrift store,

...where I found these kicky banners for my grand daughters' birthday parties,

...and another thrift store,

...where we picked up a few useful items for which we spent less than $8 altogether.

...including this ceramic goose clock,

...thanks to which my piano is now stylin'.

  But, alas, I'm suffer non-buyer's remorse over this beautiful $20 set of dishes, below, that I let go.
  (Dang you, Marie Condo for getting  all up in my head!)

     By then it was lunch time, so we walked back up the block to our car,

...then drove four miles through the countryside,

..to the town of Charm,

...and our favorite lunch spot, the Charm Family Restaurant.

   I had my favorite, the veggie wrap with garlic mayo and a side of excellent fries,

..while Tom had the perch, which  he declared very tasty.

    While deciding what kind of pie to order for dessert we had some church spread  and jelly.

Church spread - also known as Amish peanut butter -  is an Amish delicacy served after Sunday services made of peanut butter, butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, marshmallow creme and vanilla extract.
    Is it good? Oh yeah.

     For dessert Tom had blueberry pie,

...and I had pecan.

     After lunch, swearing we wouldn't eat again for the rest of the day and needing to walk off our pie, ice cream and church spread, we returned to Berlin for a visit to Sol's, the area's largest country crafts outlet,

     We then walked next door to the German Village Center,

...where we visited all the stores,

...including the pharmacy with an old-fashioned soda fountain,

...the hardware store,

...where I bought a rubber chicken toy,

...for my new grand poochie, Jack, Emily and Tommy's new doggie, who they told me loves his toys,

...and the Gospel Bookstore, which we reckoned likewise would not stock my book.

    Having finally done a decent job of walking off lunch - foresooth, we were by then even bouncing around the idea of dinner down the road - we returned to the Berlin Resort, where the sun was beautifully setting,

...until that good Amish Country cooking , did, in fact, start calling to us again,

...and lots of other folks, apparently, who we joined at Boyd and Wurthmann's Rsetaurant, which was opened until 7:30 pm on this Friday night.

   Tom got the all-you-can-eat fish dinner, which came with a side of mashed potatoes and beef gravy,

...and a mountain of really good coleslaw,

...while I had a grilled cheese with fries,

...with an Amish peanut butter and jelly sandwich on the side.

    After dinner we walked around the resort grounds for a bit,

...down to the children's village.

   Then we walked back to the hotel,

...in time to watch the evening's movie, "The Hunger Games,"

...which are definitely not played in Amish Country.

       To be continued...