Hickory Bridge Farm

We got an early start today loading the motor home and made good progress.  We could have finished the job today if we hadn't made dinner plans.  That's OK, we really enjoy going to the Hickory Bridge Farm restaurant in Ortanna, PA.  The restaurant is located in a barn believed to have been built in the 1840s.  If you look at the floor of the restaurant and the beams above, it is surely possible that the barn is that old.

Cassie, Jack and Lexa joined us for the dinner which is served family style.  They have a model train that runs back and forth above the ceiling on a track.  Usually it has an engine and some cars, but today it was just the engine chugging along.  As you can see in the picture, they have old sleighs and many old antique farm pieces in the restaurant.  No animals though.

They had Crab Imperial, fried Chicken and Steak as the main courses, along with all the fixins;  potatoes, broccoli, carrots, salad, corn fritters, peach halves, cooked apples, bread and desert.  We all managed to eat our share of the food and when the plates ran out, they brought us more.  It is impossible to leave there hungry.  I am allergic to shellfish, so I had to pass on the Crab Imperial, but it must have been good since we went through two helpings of it.

They have a great dessert menu and I picked pumpkin pie and it was so good I ate it before I took a picture.  Gerry showed more restraint than I did and I got a shot of her dessert of Moose Tracks Ice Cream Pie.  It sure looked good also and she didn't offer me any.  That is always a good sign that the dessert was great.

We took the back roads to the restaurant and on the way back Jack spotted a flock of wild turkeys along side of the creek.  What made it even more interesting was that we were playing Animal, Mineral or Vegetable on the way there and Cassie selected Wild Turkeys as her mystery object.  I think she may be psychic or something.

We returned to the cabin for a visit and some more work and they left to get Lexa to choir practice.  Later on we picked Lexa up after practice and we joined them at their house to watch The Amazing Race, which is our favorite TV program.  It was a good episode and we hung around for a while and left early so we could get an early start in the morning.  We said our goodbyes, but we will see them at Thanksgiving so it isn't like a long goodbye.

Now it is time to say goodbye for now and goodnight to you.