Vacation: Summer of 07

This is my friend Clive from England. He came over to visit us and we were determined to show him a brilliant time while he was here. After all, he hosted me last summer and gave me a vacation I'll never forget. Following are some of the pictures I took during the week. Thanks for coming Clive, we had a great time.

I had to introduce him to my rockin friend Stef aka "Madonna". We hung out at her house and drank and watched "The Facts of Life" with Mrs Garrett and the "girls girls".

I took Clive to the Woods campground on Saturday. It was a beautiful day to be outside.

We wanted Clive to feel welcome in America so we had a little get together on Saturday so he could meet some of our friends. Everyone seemed to have a good time...some more than others.

Gary and Isaiah.

Jim, Clive, and Tiff.

Since it was Clive's first time in PA we had to give him a tour of the area. This is the Pagoda which sits atop the mountain overlooking the city of Reading.

Picture borrowed from Clive.

Monday as you can see we went to Atlantic City. We hoped to go home with a lot of money but unfortunately that didn't pan out.

John at the slot machine. Lady Luck was not smiling that day.

I'm not saying there was any monkey business going on but you can draw your own conclusion

Tuesday was New Hope PA. A very old town on the banks of the Delaware river.

On Wednesday we went to NYC and waited in line at the Port Authority. Gee, I wonder how long they had been waiting before we got there.

Clive "met" Samuel L Jackson at Madame Tussaud's.

The Flatiron Building.

The Empire State Building.

The American Indian museum at the entrance to Battery Park.

The Brooklyn bridge.

A beautiful Gothic church(can't remember which one)...

...and it's cemetary. In the middle of NYC. Very cool.

The UN building.

Thursday we went to Intercourse PA. because he wanted to see the Amish. We didn't see a lot of Amish and I didn't want to be rude and take pictures of the ones we did see so I shot him molesting this cow instead. Looks like she enjoyed it though.

We took a tour of an Amish house with Clinton our tour guide. He was actually cuter than he looks in this pic.

For Clive's farewell breakfast, John made his new fave...Schumann's Sunny Hole. Yes we made the name up because we couldn't decide on what it was really supposed to be called.

After a whirlwind week of travelling it was time for Clive to go home unfortunately. We took him to the Philly airport and set him free. Hopefully with enough love of America for him to come back again. If not, I'll just have to fly across the pond and invade Britain again.