Day in Lancaster County

In 2011 we started a tradition of going to see one show at Sight and Sound each year. Our first time was to see Jonah in June 2011 to celebrate Nadia's third birthday. They actually did Jonah again this year. We didn't go. Had I known I was going back to work, we would have gone. The next year they do Jonah again, I am planning on getting tickets for all of us to see it. Yesterday we saw the Miracle of Christmas. It was the seventh different show Nadia and Ian have seen there. Next spring we are planning to see their new show titled "Jesus." The previous six shows were all from the Old Testament (Jonah, Samson, Moses, Joseph, Noah, and Daniel). Since we had tickets for the 3:00 show I thought we should do something else down in that area before the show. We decided to go to Turkey Hill Experience where we learned about how ice tea and ice cream are made. We were able to sample different kinds of lemonade, iced tea, and ice cream, and we each made our own pint of ice cream. Oliver went with a cotton candy flavored ice cream that had gummy worms and other things in it. Nadia and I both made an apple pie flavored ice cream but we mixed in different ingredients.

Nadia's favorite part of the museum was the part where you could make your own commercial. She made MANY commercials. Ian named his ice cream "Nutsaroo" after the name of a squirrel in a book series we've been reading lately. Ian's favorite part of the museum was a video arcade game where you were trying to shoot the bad bacteria. After the show at Sight and Sound we had dinner at Applebee's to celebrate Pop Pop's 75th birthday (his actual birthday is today) and Ian's 8th birthday last week. Kids eat for free there on Tuesday nights, and because we were celebrating Pop Pop's birthday he was able to select one dessert from the menu for free, and because they forgot Nadia's meal at first, they also let her select a dessert for free.

From the time we left our house until we got back home a little more than 12 hours had passed. We had a wonderful day celebrating Christmas and Pop Pop's 75th birthday! I get both the Miracle of Christmas show and the Turkey Hill Experience two thumbs up!