The Maximum Vacation, Part VII

Day 7 - afternoon and evening

After lunch, we made our way east on the Pennsylvania Turnpike to Route (U.S. Highway) 522, where our trip took a mostly northern heading toward the first day of the 30^th annual Creation Music Festival just south of Mt. Union, Pa.
Though we hadn’t placed this stop on our original itinerary, we thought it would be a good addition, both to spend time with our first-stop hosts and experience something we wouldn’t often get a chance to do. Plus, Amanda has fond memories of previous visits to the festival and got a chance to make some new ones.
We made our way through the entrance and to the parking area, then met up with our hosts.
We heard a speaker, ate some great festival food and saw several musical acts, including the David Crowder Band.
Jadyn figured out not long into our stop how to relax.

She also accurately determined the conditions we faced were quite warm, so she drank water.

This is mostly likely the biggest crowd Jadyn’s ever been in before, but she took to it very well.

She danced and had a good time ...

and so did we. We’re very grateful our hosts graciously allowed us to join them.
We continued on our original path toward the Lancaster, Pa. area, seemingly outrunning – and then getting caught by – a thunderstorm which appeared to follow us a good bit of the way to the east.
We got into Lancaster in the early hours of Day 8 on our trip, and we hurriedly got to bed so we could follow Day 8’s schedule as soon as possible.