Harrisburg
So we went to Harrisburg last weekend. We took bus as usual back and forth between Philadelphia and Harrisburg, and as usual the bus was late. Really, I think because many Americans drives their cars instead of taking buses, only people who can't afford more takes the bus and thus the bus companies doesn't have to care as much about service. We made a bet how late it would be, and I won. A half hour late! Although, if you already are prepared that they will be late, it isn't as frustrating. Only sad thing is, if the service is bad, then most people will continue to drive their cars instead of taking the buses, and the service will continue to be bad. And of course, it's not good for environment.
Anyway, after arriving in Harrisburg we tried out an Italian restaurant nearby. The waiter was new, it was made obvious by the almost too much attention and service he gave us. Usually one wouldn't complain about too much service, but this poor guy really tried to hard and made us a little bit uncomfortable coming to our table all the time. Well, the food tasted great. First the free garlic hummus with chili and olive oil and bread,
and the pulled pork sandwhich that Issac ordered. It really was delicious.
I ordered sweet potato pasta, and the taste was great but..... hey... I thought it was one of the main dishes? The size is more of an appetizer.... Yep, as you can see on the picture, I was only given FIVE raviolis! Seriously...
The weather wasn't so nice during the weekend, as expected of course. Out of seven days, the two days that are weekend days just simply can't be good I guess. In a post a week ago, I wrote that spring had arrived and the temperature was already 19 degrees. Well this weekend it was down to 6 degrees, with rain and chilly wind. Seems like the weather changes back and forth between winter and spring just as much as it does in Sweden. How unlucky, haha. Isn't it every Swedes dream to for once live in a place that have a stable and nice weather all the time? Oh well, when it comes to weather, there is nothing to be jealous about living in Philadelphia at least.
I thought it looked a bit odd and funny with an old traditional church between modern age normal buildings. But there was many churches places like this in Harrisburg city.
Even though I spent about an month in Harrisburg last summer, I never walked around in the town. So here we are, visiting the city hall.
Inside the city hall. Fancy!
In here, all senates and representatives of the Pennsylvania state works.
We got sneak peek-a-bo into the offices when we walked past as the workers when in and out of their rooms. They were all reall, really fancy, and fanciest of them all was of course the govenor's office.
A mini Christmas villiage and electric trains inside the train station.
Interestingly, there were many scales around trains stations and bus stations. One of them even had the sign "Doctors recommend you to weight yourself once a week". I don't know if this is a way trying to make Americans more aware of obsesity, but who would actually weight themselves like this in public?? Not to mention, you have to pay a few pennies too for it to work! Cheap haha.
We didn't do much in Harrisburg, mostly just visited people. First day we went to the bible study for college kids in the Korean church Issac used to go to. The pastor really knew how to make a person shy and embarrased, by asking me infront of everyone about Issac's good and bad sides. My face was burning red and even worse, two students afterwards tried to show their comfort by saying "Your face was so red". Haaah... But they were nice, the pastor too. We went to the same church on Sunday morning too for the service and ate lunch there too.
Breakfast a la Lancester (made by the hostmum's boyfriend who is from Lancester. Lancester is a small town nearby). It's baked oatmeal made in oven with cinnamon and sugar, served with fresh strawberries and milk. It was good! But very sweet of course.
Saturday evening we ate dinner out with the hostmum, her boyfriend, two of her daugthers and their boyfriend and husband. In the States, Mexican food is really popular, but surely Americansized because it's not spicy. They all seemed to understand the meny perfectly too even though the names was mostly in spanish. I tried to read the description but most of it just seemed like burritos for me? So I just took a guess and pointed something out, but it turned out to be really delicious!
My dish
Issac's dish, which included a seperate plate with grilled meat and veggies.
They called this "Mexican coke". I thought it was another brand located in Mexico, but it's just the same coca-cola we all know. Only thing is, it was made in Mexico, but the taste was the same anyways? Tsch, I feel tricked!
I was a little late this time with updating the blogg this time, no specific reason. Everything is fine. I will update more soon!
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