A HARD DAY'S NIGHT!

 SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26TH., 2017
           A HARD DAY'S NIGHT!

   My apologies to regular blog readers
who anxiously await my daily post around
11:30 each night. I didn't get home till
about 4am today!
    My hard day's night began with my
Saturday morning call in to Coal Region
Connections on WLSH radio.
    After about 12 minutes on the air I
grabbed by camera and tripod and
headed into downtown Plains Township
where I videoed the annual Santa Parade
hosted by the Plains Lions Club.
      That was just the start of our adventures.
Despite my advice against going Thanksgiving
weekend, two of my daughters and my son
agreed to get the family together for a visit
to Koziar's Christmas Village, not far from
Lebanon in Berks County.
       Now in it's 70th season this farm-like
setting boasts tens of thousands of Christmas
lights and displays that makes it look like a
New York City in the middle of nowhere.
       For nearly three hours, however, it
looked like the only lights we were going to
see were the tail lights of the hundreds of
cars moving at 5 to 10 miles per hour (when
they moved at all) heading towards the
attraction. The traffic was so congested that
my son and his family arrived, saw the entire
village, and was leaving about 20 minutes
before we ever arrived!
        Though we missed him and his part
of our family our two other vehicles
arrived at just about the same time so we
toured the village until about an hour after
the last tourists were admitted.
          Sine I had hoped to spend part of
today at the annual Unityville Fire Company
Pancake and Sausage dinner (which operates
24 hours a day from the day after Thanksgiving
until 9 o'clock tonight) we decided to go there
for an early morning breakfast.
         Of course Unityville is in Lycoming
County, about an hour and a half away from
Christmas Village! Out came the GPS and
we made the trip through unchartered
territory (to us that is) and dinned at about
2:30 this morning.
          Of course home is about as far from
our breakfast venue as the pancakes and
sausage were from Christmas Village. Hence
our "early arrival."
          Still, as they say, a good time was had
by all.
          Hope we get some sleep before
tomorrow and that all your NEWS is good!