Thursday, Aug. 6th, was our last day in Amish Country, at least this time around. We slept in and packed everything up and made sure the cabin was in decent shape. Once everything was okay, we headed over to the town of Berlin, where we headed over to The Farmstead for brunch. We again avoided the buffet that every restaurant seemed to try to throw at us, and ordered single meals. It was a good restaurant, and I hope to get it on the Amish Country rotation.

After brunch, we drove over to a local furniture store. The two men in the store, who appeared to be in their 30s, were speaking Pennsylvania Dutch when we came in, and they continued to switch effortlessly between Pennsylvania Dutch and English while where we there, depending on who they were speaking to. Both men were very friendly, and we spent quite awhile lusting after beautiful wood furniture that was very reasonably priced. The owners also told us that we needed to head out to a local farm (near Miller’s Bakery) and get a “fry pie.” It turns out that a fry pie is the perfect way to get your fruit. The Amish take a fruit spread, like strawberry, wrap it in a pie crust, deep fry it, and coat it in a glaze. Wow, were they good.

We took the men up on their recommendation and went out to the farm. The fry pies were as good as advertised, and there were lots of other wonderful baked goods available as well (of course). We wandered around the yard a bit after we had our food, and we looked at the various animals.

We then pointed the car homeward, although I wanted to make one more stop. There is a store near Berlin that is advertised as a forge and iron works. It turns out the actual forge is in Pennsylvania, and this is a retail outlet, but it was still fun to look at the various metal pieces. While Mer was in the bathroom, I bought her a pair of earrings (with cats on them). And because this was Amish country, the earrings got me a coupon for a free piece of pie at an Amish bakery on the way home. We decided that Amish country was now aggressively flinging food at us wherever we went, and so we saved the coupon for another day.

Keep in mind that we were in Amish country for only ten possible meals, and we skipped three of them. In a little over 50 hours in food central, we both managed to pack on 10 pounds each (which we have since both managed to take off). On our 11th anniversary, there was just more of us to love!