After New York for a couple days (a couple weeks ago now) we drove out to Pennsylvania to visit my mom, grandma, and our friend Kimberly who just bought a house out in Amish country. Have you ever seen a bait machine? We did on the way. More photos after the jump.




My grandma had an epic photo of my dad about to jump out of a plane, that’s him on the right and my Grandpa with Weiss on his helmet. My Uncle Allen’s in the middle and I don’t know who that other person is. For photos of Eli from this trip you’re gonna have to check out his website.

This is Kimberly. We’ve known her for ages from Boston and then New York. Well, I guess she got sick of New York and bought a house in Kutztown, PA that is hundreds of years old that is beautiful and needs lots of work. You can actually follow the whole project here.

This room had layer upon layer of wallpaper on the walls and ceiling.

attic.



Send her letters.

She brought us to some kind of Amish/farm/thrift store thing that was unlike anything I’ve even seen before in my life. There were multiple barns with tons and tons of crap and a few goodies in them. A thrift store junkie’s (Claire) heaven.

Kimberly found some kind of lawn cutting device.

These two bought the house together to bring it back to it’s glory. Two New Yorkers rebuilding a house in Amishtown.

Kimberly’s searching for a nice farmer, any farmer’s read our blog?

Mama and son.

Her floor was really nice, you can buy things she makes with her hands HERE so she can keep working on her 500 year old house.

Almost forgot, Eli grew a stache while in PA.