My husband and I vacationed at th beach for the last 25 years. We used VRBO for that rental and ended up using the same property every year. now that our kids are grown, we decided to try something different, peaceful, and closer to home. Little did we know that we found our own "Little Paradise" practically in our own backyard. Your summer home is exactly what the doctor ordered! It is so quaint and beautiful and you really don't have to go anywhere for anything if you didn't want to. We only live three hours away and what we didn't know was the History that Lancaster County has to offer. When we left our house, we went without a plan. We decided we would just drive and do whatever came first. We could have spent another week and still could have found more to do! We had the best of both worlds. We had our privacy of living on a farm and we also had an opportunity of sitting out on our beach and swimming in our own home made "ocean" without driving to the ocean. The pond with the fountain is bluer than any water I have ever seen. It was as warm as bath water. The sandy water edge made you feel like you were vacationing at the beach. Your Gazebo with the screened in porch with table and chairs makes for a nice picnic lunch before swimming. We started our days very early, out of the house by 800 am and we visited all kinds of sights. We toured the pretzel factory, we went to all the different small homemade craft shops. We went to the village in Blue Bird and visited the popular 200' SHady Maple Smorgasbord, if you left there hungry, well you did something wrong lol. We then went to the gift shop downstairs which was probably the size of the entire town of Blue Bird. IT would probably take about three hours to look at everything really good. The highlight of our trip however was a 2 hour Amish horse and buggy tour. We had an Amish man take us around the back roads of Intercourse, Blue Bird, Ephrata, and Lancaster He took us to dairy farms chicken farms and a cattle farm. John gave us the entire History of the Amish and Mennonites and how and when they settled. I could keep going on and on, and to think all of this was at our back door and we never knew it. I am so sorry that we didn't get a chance to meet you in person. We left very early and when we got home and showered it was already bed time! Our children and their spouses would like to see this home that we bragged about also. You will be seeing us again!