DAY 4: Steaming Creamed Chicken!
Today was the day we saw miles and miles and miles of corn. The horizon was flat for what seemed like forever and the only thing breaking the horizontal monotony was the occasional highway overpass.
I heard a funny noise at one point and discovered a loose panel on the RV, flapping wildly in the wind. We had to pull over so Richard could fix it with duct tape and some of my craft wire.
Max entertained himself with a plastic skeleton, some tape and a tissue box.
We entered Elkhart, Indiana around dinnertime and passed by some Amish farms. I love restaurants featuring Amish recipes and we were easily able to find one. I ordered Creamed Chicken and the plate they brought me a huge, steaming pile of it! In case you’ve never had it, it’s shredded chicken, swimming in gobs of gravy, lying on top of biscuits, which are lying on top of mashed potatoes. I’ve heard it’s a negative calorie dish!
Richard wanted to know if they expected me to go out and work all that off in the fields after the meal. I didn’t even come close to eating it all. I asked the waitress if anyone does indeed eat that entire plate and she said only two of her customers have….and they were men.
I also ordered one of my favorites, pickled beets.
And, there were 30 PIES ON THE MENU! I had a huge piece of Banana Cream Pie and it was heaven.
After dinner, we walked to some shops. I bought some crafting supplies (you can never have too many of those!) while the boys each got a small toy. We then drove to a local grocery store, which had hitching posts for the horses belonging to the Amish. The store seemed quite old (it had those old sacker carts) but it was very clean and all the sackers had on ties!
We are heading through Chicago traffic tomorrow, on our way to Wisconsin. Richard is going to try to time our departure just right so that we won’t encounter any traffic in Chicago. Ha ha ha ha ha!!!
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