Thursday, December 25, 2008


After a relatively painless four hour lay-over in Dallas (compared to other travelers we saw and heard about), we arrived in Philadelphia on a freezing rain soaked night. We managed to find ou friends, Shaun & Nanci's beautiful new house about an hour east of Philly. Unfortunately, we arrived just in time for the brutal 24 hour stomach bug that was sweeping through the Folkerts gang. Madelyn and Nanci had already suffered through it and Shaun was feeling cocky that evening, but succumbed and yakked his friggin brains out the following morning (sorry, Shaun).

Anyway, the house is beautiful and the hospitality was as generous as it could possibly be under the circumstances, but we did leave a little earlier than planned and so far we seem to have avoided the bug (fingers crossed).

From there we stopped off at Paul & Sherryann's for a few hours and were treated to some goodies and some tea and some good conversation.

So, here we are at Nan & Pop's at the Villa at Morlatton. It's a lovely facility with plenty of amenities and we're comfortable and well fed here. To walk off the 
copious breakfast, lunch and diner buffets we've have over the last day +, Sue and I explored the area, braving the 
railroad tracks next door and reading the gravestones on the neighboring colonial area church grounds, featuring some graves dating from the early 1700's.

One more visit in the area tomorrow and we're NY bound.

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