Historic Langhorne

Today I went to the historic section of Langhorne which is just a few miles from Newtown. It's nice quiet place with friendly people. After I parked my car and started walking I saw an older guy wearing a barber's smock standing in front of an old barber shop that had a spinning barber pole. He nodded and said hello, I walked around and took a few pictures then came back to get a haircut. The Barber shop is called Buddy's Barber shop and the guy that said hello was Buddy a really nice guy. Buddy had a customer but his apprentice(whose name I can't remember) cut my hair. During the the haircut they both welcomed me to the area and gave suggestions for things to do. Buddy invited me to watch the annual memorial day parade from his shop. Later I met another couple who were hanging potted flowers along the street and they gave me directions to a revolutionary war burial ground and told me that the local coffee shop was a makeshift hospital during the revolution.

Trenton

I went to New York today. It was a ten minute drive to Trenton New Jersey then an hour and fifteen minute train ride to Penn station in NYC. When I got back to Trenton I took this picture in front of a Municipal building near the train station. Some guy on a bike was making a big deal about me taking pictures of a federal building and how it's against the law. Sounds like an urban legend to me, but if the Feds knock me to the ground and take my camera.....well I guess he would be right.

Tomorrow we pick up the keys to our apartment and Wednesday morning we move in. Yippee!

I'll post some New York pictures on the Something Sighted blog.

Houses

Newtown has hundreds of these beautiful old houses, I wonder how long it will take for me to find my favorite one. They're fun to look at but I bet they are a lot of work to keep up.

I have a free day tomorrow, and the weather is supposed to be nice. Maybe I'll take the train to NYC.

I've heard from several people that summers here are brutally humid. I've spent summers in Mississippi, Texas and even the Philippines, so how bad can Newtown be?

The winters should be interesting too for these California kids. So stay tuned. :-)

Newtown

Today my wife and I drove to our new neighborhood for lunch and a walk. It's very different than what we're used to. Newtown was established in 1684 and has less than 3,000 people. The buildings, shops and houses are very quaint and there are plenty of mature trees.

Then we took a short drive to an indoor farmer's market where we had ice cream that was made by Amish people. Yum!

So far we love it here. Tomorrow we go to our new church.

Here at Last

I finally made it, but my wife and cat's flight was canceled do to bad weather. So I able to spend a few unexpected hours walking around Baltimore. From there it was only supposed to take two hours to drive to Langhorne Pa, but the Philadelphia Phillies had a day game so it took four hours. I hope the Dallas weather is better tomorrow. Now we wait for the movers while we get to know our new area.