Labor Day Weekend

I need to catch up on September's events & their pictures. Here is what Scott & I did Labor Day weekend.

Scott & my Get-Away weekend

While the boys went to youth camp, Scott & I have a get-away weekend. We hadn't done this since all the weddings & since he actually had the weekend off, we went for it. To save money we asked if we could use Scott's mother's place at Deep Creek. She was thrill to have us use it, so we headed down.


We just enjoyed our 1st afternoon there driving around the area.
We had a great time finding new things...









...and enjoying what we knew was there.

















The next day we got up early & headed up to Grantsville to get breakfast. Of course we got cinnamon rolls & sticky buns. We came upon this Amish buggy as we were leaving to head on over to Cumberland, MD to catch a train ride.








We had always planned on doing something like this, but never had. We were so excited!














This train ride went from Cumberland to Frostburg & back. It was so neat to ride on a train with an actual steam engine.























The conductor took our tickets & off we went, slowly chugging our way up the mountains.













Since it was a while before we got to our destination, we took a walk through the train to the last car. This was the snack car.











It was so cool to see out the back of the train!












We enjoyed many sights along the way. When we got to Frostburg, we had lunch while they turned the train around.










After lunch we re-boarded the train & headed back to Cumberland.







I think we enjoyed our trip back better. We decided to watch the scenery through the open windows. We could see more & we could watch the engine.
















We had great views on our way home. This one is on Rt. 219 just below Keiser's Ridge.




These were around the lake as it was getting dark.