LABOR DAY TRIP TO MERCER COUNTY

During Labor Day Rita and I took two families with us to Mercer County to visit some of the sites where I grew up. Our first family was Michelle Smith and her daughter Taylor and son Colton and Sherrie Jackson and her daughter Lauren and son Preston. Michelle's husband is a Major in Iraq and they are members of our church family. Sherrie and her children are also members of our church fellowship. We all left around 9am in the morning on Saturday and went to the Victorian town of Volant, near New Wilmington and the kids had fun playing in the creek and visiting the shops. After that outing we traveled to Sharon and had lunch at a great Chinese buffet we had been to before(worked out great with the kids). We spent another hour at Daffin's candies where the kids could spend their candy money. Later we went to Clark,PA where we last lived before moving to California. In Clark we visited the bed and breakfast that was replicated after Tara from the movie "Gone With the Wind" I had played in that home when I lived there and it is always fun to see how they have transformed the house. From Tara we drove to Pymatuning Lake and the Spillway area(just redone this last year). It is mentioned in "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" books because there are so many carp fish in the dam area and the ducks walk on their backs to get all the bread that folks throw to the fish. This was the highlight of the day for the kids and we finished off our time there and drove back to Pittsburgh getting home around 8pm or so. What a day, but we enjoyed it a lot and I know the families had fun. In fact we are talking about our next outing already for the Fall time. Below are some pictures from that trip.