Patchwork of fun

Today was a combination of fun from very interesting directions.  We started the day from our hotel in Shipshewana, Indiana, called "Der Ruhe Blatz Motel"  This means "the resting place".  We did rest there.  It could have been that we were so tired from driving all the way through Michigan yesterday, or it could have been the hotel had a comfy bed.  Not sure.  We slept so quickly when we got there that it is anyones guess.  We made a lot more distance than we had planned.

Click the picture it is really pretty and it will zoom for more detail.

We ate at this wonderful restaurant called the Wana Cup for breakfast.  After which time I started taking pictures.  I had wanted to get going with that earlier but their was not enough time between the hotel and the restaurant for more than about three snaps of the shutter.  We then made our way to Auburn for the museum.  This was wonderful.  All the old cars were great and we had a terrific time going through taking pictures and taking our time.  There was not a crowd so we were able to enjoy it to the fullest. So after visiting the museum, we went to meet Nathan, Troy's friend at our hotel.  We visited for a little while and then went back to Auburn to another car and truck museum.  Pretty cool but really couldn't rival the Auburn-Cord Duesenberg museum. 

After the museums we went around taking pictures of amish houses and looking in stores.  We had dinner at Das Dutchman Essenhaus restaurant.  It was very much like Zenders.  I liked Zenders better.  It was really good but they didn't have the great salads.  I had my heart set on an amish made quilt.  We looked in a variety of stores around the area but every store that had quilts only carried quilts with labels marked "made in China".  Really, I didn't know Amish labeled there stuff this way.  I decided I could do without a Chinese Amish Quilt for $400.00. So, we gave up.

I did manage to get 542 pictures today in all my travels, despite the lack of a quilt.  Maybe I will just patch them together in a scrapbook and call it done.

Tomorrow - an 11-hour drive home.  Goodbye Indiana, Goodbye Kentucky, Goodbye Tennessee, Hello Georgia