christmas trip 2011

Christmas Trip - 2011

From Whati to Yellowknife to Edmonton to Toronto to New York to Pennsylvania to

Cincinnati and

Back Again

More than 10,750 km

Left home Dec. 17 arriving in Pennsylvania Dec. 19

Whati Sunrise @ 9:38 a.m.

Spraying the wing with de-icer before we take off from Yellowknife

View from Edmonton 4:05 p.m.Landing in Toronto

Off to New York

– view from the back seat

of the plane

This plane is a twin to the one we were flying to New York

New York3D Murals in JFK Terminal 8

Downtown Manhattan

Paris

London

Scenes from the Airport Shuttle to AmTrac Train Station

from the World’s

Fair

Miles and miles of graves

Left-overs

Streets of New York

The buildings are built to bebeautiful not just functional

My favorite New York people shots

LET’S REDISCOVER why we’re best friends(How romantic!)

Daddy Norman and his sisters Beaty & Mary’s placethe house they all grew up in

Dec. 31 the men are sitting outside in their shirt sleeves enjoying the quiet

It was unusually warm – even for Pa.

Daddy Norman, Mary, Jim & Beaty

Savannah looks at the Amaryllis

Brunch at Beatty’sJim’s eating Scrapple

I just love thisdog and cathouse – they gettheir own couchand it even hasa blanket on it

Jim and his Scrapple

Beaty’s Christmas Rosesamazing even for Pennsylvania to have them still alive in

December

Amaryllisthe

ChristmasFlower

So Gorgeous

Beaty teaches Alanna & Christie how to braid rugs

Marina reallysuited Grandpa’s fur cap

Beaty & Mary look at their Christmasgift of books from Lois, Mary Elaine & Steph.

Debbie Macomber was a new author for them

Making pulled toffee. I never saw it actually work before. Steph is candy maker extraordinaire!

Cousin Dorothy& Lester

BrothersHorace & Norman

Sisters Kas & Mary

Daddy Norman, Cousin Ella, Cousin Anna & Jim

Aunts Ruth, Kas & Mary & Uncle Eli

Uncle Eli, Cousin Jake& Daddy Norman

The first Deutz diesel ever sold

Jim’s Uncle Amos started this business

You have to share the road with horse & buggys

I find them very

fascinating but they don’t like

their photo taken so

you have to be fast with the “click”

Unique sights of Pennsylvania

Covered bridge not in use any more

Christmas Village

Christmas visitors from long ago and far away came to church to tell us the story of Jesus Birth

ChristmasFeast

New Year’s Eve Day Brunch at Yoders’ withthe whole Clan

Daddy foundsuch a funpicture of

Mamma SusieI have to put

her in with us.

Gas prices in Pa. per gallon

That is roughly 4 liters, $.80+ cents a liter

Steph works @ Garden of Eden

They sellHomemade

AmishHmmm!

We couldn’t get over

all the fruits sitting

outside and it doesn’t freeze

And they sell @Green Dragon

Market on Fridays

Road trip with Daddy Norman to visit Matt & Alanna

Somewhat tense driving conditions

Scenery along the road

Matt &

Alanna

Fixing up their place

Matt is installing their new TV stand, but what is Alanna doing?

Over-look at CCU – can you read “Cincinnati”?

Matt’s Office at Cincinnati Christian University

Cincinnati Christian

University

Cincinnatiscenery

Driving by view of the same Church

Newport on the Levee

At 1 a.m. Jan. 4 we started our Journey home with Dale on his daily ride. A different and new point of view for me, Lois.

Dale dropped us off at Jamaica station to take us the rest of the way to the JFK airport by AirTrain

We travelled by 8 planes, 2 trains, 2 busses, a minivan and a Peterbilt

(but not buggy)

Some humongous planes @ Kennedy airport

Coming into

Toronto at about 11 pm