Local Fallen Heros Ride & Pig Roast

beer line

This weekend we attended a fund raising event at the Cementon play ground created to benefit the children of Jesse Reed and Adam Keys, both were graduates of Whitehall High School.  Jesse gave his life serving our country and Adam was left severely disabled.  This event was very well organized, extremely family oriented, and had something for everyone :)  The people who organized this event are incredible people, as are the local businesses that made such grand contributions.   For $20 an adult (kids were free), it was all you could eat and drink, and the variety of food options was amazing.  There was over 300 motorcycles parked out on the grass, and roughly 1000 people came out in all.  The Chinese auction had over a hundred donated items to bid on, there was a moon bounce, face painting for the kids (free tattoos for the adults) door prizes, a live band, and beer. 



Chinese auction table



Tattoo artists were available if anyone wanted some ink, patriotic designs seemed to be the most popular.

Main Street New Hope With The Kids

Let me just start off by saying that Main Street New Hope with kids on a Saturday evening was a poor choice.   It was loud, crowded , smelled bad and there was nothing to do there (according to our 7 year old).   There was a few new shops that caught my eye, and we picked up a few interesting things, but there was also a lot of empty retail space, so I wouldn't consider it a really great shopping destination anymore.  But if your looking for a wide variety of restaurants to choose from, it might be worth the trip.  We had a late dinner at Bitter Bob's, This place had great barbecue, but the sides were nothing to rave about.  We sat outside to eat and they let us buy beer at the bar next door. It's possible that we may have outgrown what this quaint little town has to offer, so I won't be doing that again, and next time we'll just do Peddlers Village and just come over to Main Street to try the Triumph Brewing Company:)

Out with the kids: Tika's on Main St.

We headed out with the kids last night to get some dinner and unwind.  Our favorite place to go to be a public nuisance (our kids are better behaved then we are) is Historic Bethlehem.  There's lots of restaurants to choose from with outdoor seating, a great coffee shop, and because there's so many bars there's always live free entertainment (there's always an alcohol fueled spontaneous street performance).  The restaurant we frequent most often is Tika's on Main street,  it's got a great children's menu, Hop Devil on tap, and the most incredible french fries and pulled pork sandwiches.  I also like their salads, and I'm not easy to please when it comes to lettuce, usually only my fresh garden lettuce will do.  We took advantage of the empty outdoor seating area, it was to hot outside for the other patrons, so my husband had the whole area to himself to be obnoxious with his cigar :)  The kids had a great time doggie watching, and keeping an eye out for "eccentric street performers" (eccentric is a fancy word for drunk).  While we were eating, I noticed that my favorite vintage clothing store had relocated down to Main street, so my daughter and I of course had to check out The Attic the second we finished eating.  It's a nice little shop, the old store was crowded and not accessible with a stroller, so browsing their fierce inventory of vintage fashions is so much easier now.  Then we grabbed some coffee at the Wired Gallery, looked at some of the new paintings we hadn't previously viewed and headed back out to Main street to wrap things up with some window shopping on the way back to the car.  If you'd like to view Tika's complete menu, check out the link below, I also added The Attic and the Wired Gallery links.
Tika's
The Attic
Wired Cafe and Gallery

Night out: Sands Casino Resort

Last night we dropped the kids off at my mom's and headed down to the Sands Casino Resort in Bethlehem, PA. We had a great dinner at St, James Gate, this Irish pub had the best curry sauce and calamari appetizer I've ever had, and the selection of Beer was outstanding! I was not real impressed with my free range roasted chicken entree though (it was bland, and a bit pink inside):( After that, we headed out onto the floor to play the slots and check out the new table games. The live entertainment was nice and if your a people watcher this is the place to be. This was our first trip to a casino, we had a good time getting robbed by "the one armed bandit", I think we might make it a regular thing. :)
for directions check out: http://pasands.com/