Journaling reads:
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Woke up at 6:20 a.m. with a headache. Got up to use the bathroom and took some Tylenol and went back to bed. Next thing I knew, it was 7:40 and someone was calling Ilene’s phone 3 times only to be a wrong number! By that time we were both awake.

I took a shower and we dressed and went to breakfast in the hotel lobby. When we came back to the room I took our suitcases to the car so I could get my coffee mug and Ilene’s foot medicine. When I came back in, Joy and Company (Joy, Rita, Roman, Cathy) were up and going down for breakfast. Ilene fixed her foot bath while I made my coffee. Then we played a game of Qwirkle before packing up the rest of our stuff. It was 10:22 and we had to be checked out by 11:00.

First stop was Sheetz for gas. Then Joy called The Carriage House where we would be staying the rest of the week to see if our rooms were available for occupancy. They were, so we headed there, arriving around 11:40 as the hotel was only 20 miles from Holiday Inn. We unpacked and Ilene and I began our Qwirkling.

At 1:40 everyone was bored so even though it was raining we decided to go to Kitchen Kettle Village in Intercourse, PA. Ilene and I only went to the Jams & Relishes shop and Pappy’s Kettle Corn for Carmel corn. I bought some marked-down Pecan Gooey Buns and Blueberry Bread at Jams & Relishes and bought a large bag of the Carmel corn at Pappy’s Kettle Korn. We went to the car at 3:00 to eat some of the Carmel corn. YUM! Then we sat in front of the Kettle Korn shop with Joy and Cathy and watched the sparrows hop around and beg for food while we waited for Rita and Roman to return from their buggy ride.

We got back to the hotel around 4:00 and played Qwirkle until we left at 5:00 for supper at Casey Jones Restaurant made out of an old train car.

Back to the hotel at 6:00. Showers for everyone and then we played games until 9:00. Joy and Company went to their room and Ilene and I listened to our Bible devotions while Ilene did her foot treatment. By 10:30 we were in bed.

According to Google Maps Timeline, we traveled 34 miles today.