We looked at the news programs in the morning until 11:00.
Then we drove to the Masonic Home and toured it. It is built on the scale of and appears like a European castle or high end resort. The only other dining room I have seen similar is the one at the Del Coronado in San Diego, am infinitely rising wooden Gothic arch in a huge room at least four hundred feet long; massive and majestic. Suzette compared it to the lobby at Old Faithful Lodge at Yellowstone. In a word majestic.
The terrace and gardens are equally majestic. It appeared to be built on a similar scale and design concept as the palace at Versailles, a huge terrace elevated above a long formal garden with hills of forest behind.
Originally built as a self sufficient orphanage by the Masons, it has been converted into a old folks home on a grand scale. IF I EVER CONSIDERED GOING TO AN OLD FOLKS HOME, this the one I would wish to go to.
We drove to Lititz, about twenty miles away for lunch at the Tomato Pie Café. It is located in what appears to be an old hotel and tavern. As far as I can tell the two main industries in Lititz were manufacturing chocolate and pretzels. Unfortunately both the Wilbur Chocolate factory and the pretzels stores were closed ion Sunday in this very religious part of PA.
When we arrived there was a crowd, so we waited for about twenty minutes for a table. When we finally were seated and I was given a menu, I noticed three things; it was extremely limited and that the prices were exceedingly inexpensive because the dishes were almost all vegetarian.
Jean ordered a slice of Tomato Pie with spinach and artichoke. Mrs. Lindemuth ordered a slice of Tomato Pie, Suzette ordered the stuffed Portobello Mushroom cap stuffed with sausage, onions, and bell peppers, topped with two over easy fried eggs and served with rosemary seasoned cottage fried potatoes. I ordered the quinoa bowl with sautéed quinoa, sausage, kale, sub dried tomatoes, onions, mushrooms and bell peppers. It was delicious and nutritious but I was hard pressed to find a piece of sausage larger than a speck. The impression I was left with was that theTomato Pie Café was a fancy vegetarian restaurant by intent and execution. Interesting. Jean graciously paid for lunch. After lunch we said goodbye to Jean and drove to two covered bridges in the area and then back to E. Town. These were the first covered bridges I have ever seen and I loved them. We took photos and then drove across them. Here are photos.
We then drove back to E. Town. I lay down for a nap until 4:30.
We drove to the liquor store and bought two roses, a Cotes de Provence with Grenache and a Loire with Cab Franc. We then drove to K Mart and Suzette bought a closet organizer for her mon and packing tape to box up some items she wants to take back to Albuquerque.
We then drove to Bev and Don’s for dinner. When we arrived Bev was steaming Couscous and starting to sauté a large pot of fresh vegetables, including zucchini, red bell peppers, mushrooms, and onion. There was a pork loin baking in a covered dish in the oven.
In a few minutes the Academy awards programming started and the food was ready to eat. We ate hardly and sipped the Cotes de Provence rose. It was a 3.9 on the vivino rating scale, dry clean tasting and light, a great Grenache Cinsault rose.
We later opened the Loire rose and it was not as clean, probably because made with Cabernet Franc.
Dinner was more than adequate. We ate seconds.
Then we watched an hour of Academy awards and went back to mom‘s home.
I made a cup of tea and ate some chocolate chips and watched the Academy Awards. I was happy to see that The Shape of Water won best picture and director categories.
Bon Appetit
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