Saturday, August 11, 2012

Shipshewana & Kimpel

Well it is down to the last day of vacation. We spent the morning driving from Grand Rapids to Shipshewana, Indiana. We are on our way home. Bummer. It was goodbye Michigan today. We spent several hours looking at the shops in Shipshewana before meeting up with Troy's friend Nathan Kimpel. I really love that town. It is very Amish. Most of the stores are really run by non-amish and the stuff is from China but there are a couple of places that there is authentic stuff and it is worth the trip for that. I really did love the cloth and quilt stores. I got some nice stuff there. We picked up some other "much needed" souvenirs as well while we were there. I didn't take any cool pictures today. I just enjoyed myself and enjoyed the sights.
When we met up with Nathan, we went to the Auburn Cord Duesenburg Museum and NATMUS, which is an acronym for lots of different kinds of restored vehicles and some that haven't been restored yet. No really, National Automotive and Truck Museum - see the resemblance to what I just said. It was fun.
We finally got to our hotel around 9:00 pm and we will have to get up pretty early in the morning to get home at a reasonable hour tomorrow.  That will be the end of the vacation for us, a long drive from Auburn, Indiana to Silver Creek, GA. So, thanks to everyone that has followed along with us and I hope you have enjoyed reading the blog.

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