PA Sister Weekend, Day One

It's almost 6 pm and I think I'm starting to recover from my big weekend.  Good grief!  I felt like an old, old woman today!

We had such a wonderful sister weekend!  We call this the PA sister weekend, since we are the three sisters that live in Pennsylvania and can thus get together more often than the whole crew of sisters.

Mary Ellen and Doris arrived here (from Lancaster County) right around lunch time on Friday.  What good guests!  They brought lunch!  So we first of all sat down and had a delicious lunch of chicken salad sandwiches with chips, olives, and bread and butter pickles.  Also Mary Ellen's homemade applesauce and Doris's gluten-free chocolate cupcakes.  All absolutely scrumptious!

Then we went to the arboretum.  We were so glad to visit when the tulips were blooming. 

Anyone know what the upside down yellow flower is?  I see I have it two of these collages.  We were so fascinated by them, but did not see any sign that said what they were. 

We took pictures of some old ladies taking pictures of the tulips, hahahaha!!  And checking out each others' shoes, I guess.

When we left the arboretum we went to the nearby Penn State Berkey Creamery.  There was no indoor dining, so we had to take our ice cream outside to the patio, but it was starting to feel really cold.  So we didn't manage to take any pictures of that very special tradition.  

After we came home Dick started a fire in the fire pit, and we had hamburgers and hot dogs.  We were expecting rain on Saturday, so we were trying to do as many outdoor things as we could on Friday.  It was NOT warm anymore at that time of day, so the fire felt really good.  We weren't proud of the way we looked, wearing any old coat I could find that would keep us warm. 

 

That evening we watched a movie and laughed ourselves silly - another tradition, haha!!

Day two coming up as soon as I can find a few minutes!  Hopefully I'll also find the time to catch up with some of you blogger friends.  That did not happen last week at all.