September 5, 2007, Mina

After our hour and a half drive from Buffalo, we headed towards Jamestown, the hometown of Lucille Ball. I had been waiting for this since the beginning of the trip. I’ve recently been watching the “I Love Lucy” episodes from Netflix for about two years, and I loved every millisecond of every show. We went to two museums. The first one was about the early lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez, where each of them came from, how they met, what early jobs they had before they started the show. Then it ends with their divorce. The second museum was the replicas of the sets that were used for the “I Love Lucy” show. On the other side of the room, there was a display of costumes that characters used for the show. If you walked outside and looked at the buildings, there were these giant murals on the sides. That was my moms’ favorite part of the town. My parents were constantly holding things up to me in the store and I’m running back and forth between them trying to decide what to look at.

LATER THAT DAY:

Lenny’s driving the car, moms reading the map, and I’m in the back seat texting and ipoding. Then my parents decide to drive through an Amish area. This place was the most amazing place. The people there only drive horses and buggies, don’t have any electricity, grow their own food, dress like pilgrims, and they wear top hats when their out riding their buggies. We stopped at some of their homes just to see what it’s like on the inside. They have these beautiful quilts they make by hand and beautiful food that are grown fresh from their gardens. Every time we saw a horse with a person riding it we would all say “Oh, my gosh! There goes another one! Quick ! Get the camera!!” then we would take a picture and act like nothing had happened by smiling and waving nicely to them. Of course they didn’t think anything of it. So they would smile and wave back.

-- Mina