Pennsylvania in April (Part 3)

On Thursday morning, we headed southeast of our hotel area to an outdoor shopping area called Peddler's Village. Since I had not been there in years, I wasn't sure what to expect in terms of interest for all of us, but it turns out, we enjoyed ourselves with mostly just window shopping.
Kate was more interested in Seth showing her pictures of Flossy on his phone while we waited for Laura to snuggle every stuffed animal in a store called The Total Animal. 
It was fairly quiet since it was just after opening, so we had plenty of space to walk around and enjoy the sights before other visitors arrived. Before we left, we visited the indoor carousel and gave Kate a chance to ride a horse before making one last stop at a fun toy store called JaZams which had so many of our family favorite toy items. 

After lunch, I suggested we continue to enjoy the warm sunny day by driving a bit further southeast toward the Washington Crossing area on the Delaware River. This meant driving through the popular town of New Hope along the river. The streets and sidewalks of New Hope were packed with tourists, motorcyclists, and delivery vehicles. Many restaurants with outdoor patios and stores with open doors and sidewalk sales had people spilling out in the slow moving traffic and busy crosswalks. It felt like it must be a summer holiday, but no, it was just a beautiful spring Thursday! Since I was driving I couldn't take any photos so you'll just have to look it up online.
I had a feeling that adding New Hope to our tourist attractions after our visit to Washington Crossing was going to be too much for my traveling family and I was right. We enjoyed walking around the historic buildings and museum but when we came back through New Hope they waved off any interest in stopping. We did stop outside of town at another historic site to see the sheep and Laura took some pictures of the ones who had wooly bangs covering their face. She called to some of the more distant sheep and the dark brown one came trotting right over much to her delight. A few minutes of patting him and some loud baaing from another sheep by the barn and all the sheep went trotting into the barn. Laura is our resident animal lover and she's all ready to start sheep and goat farming.

On Friday morning, we headed over to the newly renovated Barnes & Noble bookstore in the mall and had a very relaxing time exploring all the new displays and items being offered. I bought two illustrated editions of Robert Frost poetry and Thoreau's Walden that were in the bargain shelves. Then we headed for a mid-morning visit with family friends before going to my parents for lunch and supper one last time. I had brought some of our old family photos for my Dad to look over and identify some of the people in the pictures. So we spent more time in the afternoon working on that project before I cooked supper for all of us one last time. The next day we drove for about 12 hours to return home to Shane and Flossy who were waiting for us.