Blogs from Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States, North America

I'm leaving here in 5 days to go to Perth, Australia. I am going to try to keep a record of my trip, complete with pictures on here, for everyone to read. You can subscribe to this blog if you would like, and it will email you everytime I update it with a story or pictures. You can also get to it by typing: www.mytb.org/britnikress. I'm really excited for what awaits me in Australia; hopefully I'll have lots of interesting things to post! ... read more

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas!! We did.........very quiet and peaceful. We TRAVELED to Midway, to have dinner with our daughter and her family. GREAT dinner!! Got TONS of gift cards this year, so we made out very well. We had set a limit for the amount to be spent on gifts, this year, however. Money is tight and we hate to see our kids spending so much for gifts............and us, too. Today we're going to TRAVEL to Washington Crown Center Mall to see what bargains we can find, if any. I would like to buy some of their crystal which will be on sale out in the hall-way, today. They only come out once per year, and the crystal items are unbelievable and the price is cut in half........and in some cases more than that. ... read more

Posted by: Onaxthiel: We tried for an early start out of Clair to clear MI as rapidly as possible. There were only a few stops along the route we wanted to make on our way to Pennsylvania, and they were things that looked like they had potential to be interesting on our big map. The first stop was sleepy hollow state park. Usually we wouldn't have bothered stopping, but since it's getting towards Halloween, our curiosity (and the fact that we needed some breaks in our driving after yesterdays marathon driving session.) got the better of us. Sleepy Hollow state park looked like any other that was charging us admission to spend almost no time in, so we bypassed it and drove back to an unused church nearby for some shots of it with the autumn ... read more