With Mother's Day right around the corner, you may be scrambling to find ideas of what to do for mom if you live in the Poconos. If you still haven't come up with any ideas of what to do for your mom/wife, I'm going to throw a few quick ideas your way. Luckily for us, the Poconos lends itself to a variety of great gift options from the very affordable to finer gifts and … [Read more...]
Shawnee Mountain Hot Air Balloon Festival
Shawnee Mountain has a variety of events throughout the year, one event that I wanted to get to but I'm just way too busy this weekend is the Timber & Balloon Festival. This past week has been a mess weather wise - snow, rain, cold. The festival ran from Friday night through Sunday, Saturday morning it was snowing so it probably would have been pretty miserable, but today … [Read more...]
Apple Picking, Pumpkin Picking, Cut your Own Christmas Tree
Monday was Columbus Day so we left work a little bit early to head out to do some pumpkin and apple picking. The problem is I really couldn't find anywhere that had both available. PUMPKIN PICKING When "pumpkin picking" you really need to be sure that you read the fine print so that if you're actually expecting to pick pumpkins off the vine that they have it available. … [Read more...]
A visit to Callies Candy Kitchen and Callie’s Pretzel Factory
Last weekend was unusually warm for March in the Poconos (above 60 degrees) and after being holed up inside all winter we were more then ready to get out for some weekend fun. My son was dying to play outside but the warm weather had caused all the snow to melt making our yard and the local parks one big mudfest. My husband and I decided some indoor fun might be a better … [Read more...]