Thursday of our vacation was a rather full day! After visits to Annin & Company and Pearl Valley Cheese in the morning (see previous posts), we finished with a drive deep into Amish country to have a private meal with an Amish family on their farm. We had an absolutely wonderful evening of food an fellowship.
Thanks to helpful people at Amish Tours of Ohio, the six of us (me & Karen, Dad & Jane, and Mark & Jenny) were scheduled for a home cooked meal with John and Fannie. Their farm is located back in the hills of Holmes County where buggies are much more common than cars.
John directed us where to park our cars and invited us into their farm house where we got to know each other a little bit before dinner. Then Fannie called us to the table and what a meal we had: patato-stack cassarole, home made noodles, green salad with cheese and real bacon bits, fresh salad dressing, green beans with ham, pickled beets, and home made applesauce, peanut butter spread and apple butter. Did I mention fresh bread still warm from the oven? Or the apple pies and raisin cream pies for dessert? Oh my...
After we couldn't eat any more, John grabbed the portable battery-powered floor lamp (the Amish don't use electricity) and rolled it into the living where we spent the next hour and a half telling life stories, learning about Amish ways of life, and laughing till our faces hurt.
It was a fantastic evening. While we don't have any photos to share, as photographs aren't considered appropriate within the Amish culture, we do have some wonderful memories and maybe two new friends from another culture.
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