Day 6 began with an early morning tour of Amish Country -- or as Zach Bart calls it "Amishland". The students were able to visit a petting zoo that had goats and chickens. Many of them stood around feeding the animals. As I was attempting to take this picture of Nick, I suddenly felt something moving around my leg. I turned around quickly to find a goat digging in my pocket!! It was then I heard the mischievous cackle of Andrew, who had placed some goat food in my pocket when I wasn't looking!!! How many more days of this do I have???
We went to an Amish quilt shop, where many of the students bought the famous quillow! For those who don't know, this is a quilt that folds up into a pillow -- the Amish never cease to amaze! We also climbed into an Amish buggy and spoke to a real live Amish boy! The students resisted the temptation to pepper the young man with questions -- although you could see the questions burning in their eyes! They were all shocked when they discovered that Amish children stop going to school after the 8th grade! I am afraid some of you may have some Amish converts on your hands. We tried to explain that this meant they had to use an outhouse and they could NOT use their cell phones ... but apparently that is a small price to pay for freedom.
Amish Country is very well known for their bakeries -- so of course we stopped off. The fact that it was 8:30 in the morning did not stop them from enjoying a nice cold ice cream cone. Coach Evans was kind enough to buy her group some Whoopi Pies ... the students were very curious about where the name came from -- Coach Evans claimed to have no idea (whether or not she really knows the meaning, I don't know ... my question is, do the Amish know?).
After Amishland we headed off to New York. This was a rather long drive, so to entertain the students we watched "High School Musical" on the bus. As I am sure you can all imagine, it quickly turned into East Coast Musical ... and I'm not going to lie, it was not a very good one. Ashley belted out just about every song there was and was accompanied by none other than Andrew Elffers! At key moments the entire bus broke out into song together - we were able to contain their urge to dance -- but it was touch and go for a while.
Anyone who was not singing, was SLEEPING -- including Mr. Zach Bart and Kevin Geddes ... who were thrilled to discover that their picture was "blog worthy" -- as stated by Bart.
Once we arrived in New York we headed to the Empire State Building. Everyone made it to the top ... overcoming their fear of heights. This was a good introduction to New York City -- from the top of the building the students were able to see the yellow snakes down below -- 9 out of every 10 cars on the New York streets are cabs (this of course is a very accurate statistic -- not one that I just made up ... okay I made it up, but I think I'm close).
Off to bed, in preparation for a BIG New York visit tomorrow.
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