Memory Lane

Rebecca and I were sitting watching a popular show (well, it's popular in our house, anyway)  about a bakery one state over from us when we saw a commercial for the show (another cake decorating one) that would be airing after.  I commented that the building that the commercial showed looked familiar.  So we decided to stay tuned - sure enough, the bakery was in my hometown, and it was one of my favorite places to meet my friends for ice cream!  Becca was seriously impressed (she needs to get out more...) and after a run by the rest of the crew we decided to take a little trip down to visit at the end of the week.


Our first and probably most important stop was lunch here:

an amazing little Irish tavern

for these:

fabulous sandwiches that you can only get here - SO worth the two hour drive ....

Then we decided to make our way down "the Hill"...

First stop was to see trains at Grace's insistence.  She has a thing about them.  And we had to stay until the train moved. Even though there were some mutterings from older children about how strange our family is - we all sat at the train station to watch a train pull out - just for the fun of it.

Onward to my old (and I do mean OLD) elementary school.  This school is still in use today and covers k-8 in 3 floors.  

Once upon a time the girls used this entrance on one side of the school and the boys used the entrance on the other side of the school.  My father-in-law, who is almost 86, also went to elementary school here and I'm sure remembers the segregated entryways.

After some serious walking around it was time to head to the place that started the idea for the trip...

and Evan picked out his next birthday cake....

It was so much fun taking the kids to my hometown, it's so different than where they are growing up that it really gave them a different perspective - I hope it's not too long before we get to go back.