Good-bye Summer

So it's fall already, which is my favorite time of year, but I don't have any suitable pictures on my hard drive, so instead I'll post some pictures of a trip to Pennsylvania we took this summer.

In July we went to visit my parents for the July 4th weekend. My mom heard about this restaurant in Wrightsville, PA, called -- go figure -- the John Wrght Restaurant. There's also a store inside that had some unique items. The building is a restored warehouse, and that was pretty cool. They have some nice pictures on the website, but I'm going to post a few of mine. They're not photographic masterpieces, but they're good enough for what they are.

Here's the entrance. We went in through the brown door.



The dining area inside wasn't that large, but we ate outside on the patio. It was a little windy, but it was nice being outside. The dining area is under the green and white striped awnings.



From the patio, we had the view of two bridges that crossed the Susquehanna River. We crossed one coming and went home using the other. My dad, who is a Civil War fanatic, proceeded to give us a history lesson of how the visitble stone abutments date back to the Civil War. He told us that the Union soldiers burned the bridge to stop the invading forces.



Not that I doubted my dad, who could probably teach a history class on the subject, but where I went down to take some pictures, there was a plaque that read, "In 1814, the first bridge connecting Wrightsville and Columbia was completed. It was the longest covered bridge in the world (5,690 feet.) Since then, five additional bridge have spanned the Susquehanna at this site. Of the six, two were destroyed by natural forces, and one was burned in 1863 by Union militiamen and townspeople to prevent Confederate troops from invading Lancaster County and reaching Harrisburg."