Our trip
Such an awesome trip!
Thursday was the day that we ended up going to Amish country. We went to a cheese factory then to Menno-Hof. It’s a museum about the Amish and Mennonites. That was really cool….they had the history, how they settled, what they believe, what’s the difference between them…then after that, they had a TV set up and you could listen o these two story tellers and they would tell stories that were just hilarious…like Amish are not stingy, they’re frugal. Know how copper wire was invented? Two Amish guys fighting over a penny. J Another cool thing there was a tornado simulator. They put you in a room and there’s a screen…it shows a tornado coming, it blows tremendous amounts of air in there, makes tons of noise, even vibrates…sooo cool!
Right after Menno-Hof, Amanda, Kip’s best friend, came and picked up Kip, Nina, Ben and I. She took us to her house, well to the mill. Her family has an old flour mill. We packaged pancake mixes for a while…that was so cool…To entertain Ben, we gave him a bin with about three inches of flour in it and a few cups….that kept him good for a while.
Then we played with Amanda’s kitties….then the rest of the family got there and they took us on a tour of their old mill—built in 1846 and still fully operating. Incredible. The beams that the thing was built with were 13 by 13 inch beams of solid white oak fifty feet long. Now, imagine that being hoisted up to the top of a three story frame that was being built on top of an twenty-one foot deep river. The river goes under the mill and runs the generator. But hoisting up that beam….before the walls and floor…fust a frame…and this was done by the Amish folks…they weren’t using cranes…this was a serious building! Planks on the walls were over three feet wide and 26 feet long!
Anyways, we got to see the way that the flour was milled, separated, sifted, and everything.
I am so glad Kip could come! We all had such a blast with her…and that really did help Nina…made it a little bit easier to leave…she's been living in a big huge building with all her friends for a year, and now she's going home...so it was really good for her to have kip that week.
For plenty of pictures, visit Nina. Go back in her achives for even more from earlier in the trip.
Thursday was the day that we ended up going to Amish country. We went to a cheese factory then to Menno-Hof. It’s a museum about the Amish and Mennonites. That was really cool….they had the history, how they settled, what they believe, what’s the difference between them…then after that, they had a TV set up and you could listen o these two story tellers and they would tell stories that were just hilarious…like Amish are not stingy, they’re frugal. Know how copper wire was invented? Two Amish guys fighting over a penny. J Another cool thing there was a tornado simulator. They put you in a room and there’s a screen…it shows a tornado coming, it blows tremendous amounts of air in there, makes tons of noise, even vibrates…sooo cool!
Right after Menno-Hof, Amanda, Kip’s best friend, came and picked up Kip, Nina, Ben and I. She took us to her house, well to the mill. Her family has an old flour mill. We packaged pancake mixes for a while…that was so cool…To entertain Ben, we gave him a bin with about three inches of flour in it and a few cups….that kept him good for a while.
Then we played with Amanda’s kitties….then the rest of the family got there and they took us on a tour of their old mill—built in 1846 and still fully operating. Incredible. The beams that the thing was built with were 13 by 13 inch beams of solid white oak fifty feet long. Now, imagine that being hoisted up to the top of a three story frame that was being built on top of an twenty-one foot deep river. The river goes under the mill and runs the generator. But hoisting up that beam….before the walls and floor…fust a frame…and this was done by the Amish folks…they weren’t using cranes…this was a serious building! Planks on the walls were over three feet wide and 26 feet long!
Anyways, we got to see the way that the flour was milled, separated, sifted, and everything.
I am so glad Kip could come! We all had such a blast with her…and that really did help Nina…made it a little bit easier to leave…she's been living in a big huge building with all her friends for a year, and now she's going home...so it was really good for her to have kip that week.
For plenty of pictures, visit Nina. Go back in her achives for even more from earlier in the trip.
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Great! It sounds like you had a blast!
~Joanna~
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