Dave's trip to the USA - Part 4
Monday, August 12 - Lake Tobias Safari Park
On my way back from camping, I met up with my parents, my brother Tony and my kids at this park. We saw longhorn steers and bison.
This is an elk. They are similar to deer, but much bigger.
The safari vehicles were old school buses with the roofs chopped off.
I ate a bison burger for lunch. It was pretty good.
Satoshi enjoyed feeding some ducks alongside some local Amish boys.
We could pet the alligators after the reptile show was finished.
There was a gorgeous sunset that evening. This view is from my parent’s front yard.
Tuesday, August 13 - Escape room: part deux
I did a second escape room at a different place in Lancaster. This time we had 11 people on the squad, including my brother Chris and part of his family, my friends Jerry, John and John’s son Aaron. The theme was Atlantis and we got out in just under 40 minutes. After our escape, we all hung out at a local sports bar for a while.
Wednesday, August 14 - The Franklin Institute
TFI is a long established science museum in downtown Philadelphia. I was probably last there sometime in the 1980s. My brother Mike and my sister-in-law Amy took the day off to join us.
We took in a planetarium show and another show featuring combustion. The boys had a great time running around interacting with all of the exhibits.
The final few days of our trip we tried to spend as much time as we could with our family.
On Friday the 16th, we went up to my brother Chris’s house and had a cookout complete with s’mores around the fire pit.
Ta and Sa had fun hanging out with their cousins.
Saturday, August 17th was my father’s 75th birthday.
It was also the first time during our trip that we got all 4 Fulvio brothers, significant others, and all 6 grandchildren together in the same place.
We had seen everybody separately, but somebody was always missing until that day. We spent the day just hanging out at my parents’ house and my Dad had 2 cakes.
On Sunday we drove to a hotel near Philadelphia airport because our first flight on Monday was at 6:47am, so we got up at 3am .
Overall, we had an awesome trip this year. We did so many fun things and got to see lots of family and friends. I’m already thinking of the trip next year!