Another weekend in Erie

Well, it's officially seven days till Christmas, and we have had no snow for like more than a week now. We're getting worried - what happened to our fantasies of a White Christmas - building snowmen, riding bobsleds, throwing snowballs at each other.... ohhh.

With hardly any snow on the horizon for the next ten days (so the forecasts say), we thought we'd head out to the ski slopes about 20mins from Erie (Peak'n Peek) to see what they were looking like. To be honest, they're not looking that great. Only 2 slopes were running, and they both had man-made snow on them. They were kinda brown too.... ewww! We treated ourselves to a yummy lunch there too.... all you can eat surf, turf and earth. We definitely ate all we could.

Also this weekend we took a country drive to Astabula County which is about an hour west of Erie. Whilst taking a look at some of the 16 covered bridges in the county, we found ourselves in Jefferson, an Amish county. When 3 Amish guys passed us in a horse and buggy and yelled out 'Nice Car!!' mum felt compelled to yell back 'Nice Horse'! Then there were laughs all round, then, in fact, the horse did a big green poo on the road. Fun times had by all!!

This is a house we found in Ashtabula. Pretty good example of how patriotic some Americans are. I think these people are putting a flag out for each soldier who dies in Iraq. Check out even the windows of the house.

Kimbo and Christine.... Future covered bridges.

The pretty dismal looking ski slopes. Mark and Lara, you have plenty on us.

This is Bromley after lunch displaying with his fingers how many plates he ate.