Shipshewana, Baby!

Last Wednesday I headed to Shipshewana, which is in northern Indiana. It's an Amish community, but they have tons of really cool little shops and then a huge flea market. I went with some friends, but they're blognonymous (feel free to use that word if you'd like) so while this post looks incredibly self-indulgent, please know I was having a good time with my friends.

We ate lunch at this cute little place, WHICH provided my "this would only happen to Bekah" moment of the day.

They had tables inside and outside, so we elected to eat outside. It was a BEAUTIFUL day. One of my friends went to the bathroom and when she came back to the table, I asked if it was a multi-person restroom. She said no; in fact the restaurant was so small that there was just one bathroom period. One for everyone. She said no one was in there, so I hopped up and went inside. Walked past the very full room of people, right by a table full of people - and opened the door to the restroom just in time to say hello to a man inside.

Oh. My. Word. Yes. There was a man in there! He was just getting ready to wash his hands, so I missed anything that might create irreparable damage on either of our parts, but it was still UBER embarrassing. I mean how do you even recover from that? I said sorry, closed the door and stood there (with the entire room of people looking at me, I'm sure) until he was done and then we sort of traded places. Good night, Irene.

(To his credit, he probably thought he'd locked the door but it was a weird "push in and turn to lock" sort of knob, so it um...didn't work.)

Here I am waiting on lunch:

And THIS was lunch. It was a "teeny weeny panini" plate. Or as I stated in my order: "I'll have the ham and swiss panini situation." (They laughed at me.)

And um....THEY HAD CUPCAKES!!!!!! I was the only person in my group who got dessert. Does this look like a girl who cares? NOPE! I mean, seriously, do you see the cupcake???

It was chocolate peanut butter in case you were wondering.

So then we went to some of the little shops in town. I walked into this one and saw a grouping of windchimes and thought...I wonder...

...yep! Woodstock Windchimes! I interviewed the owner of the company a few weeks ago. Really great guy with a fascinating story of how he got into the windchime business. So I took my picture with them because I'm just a dork like that:

Then I walked into another store and saw these and thought...I wonder....

...Yep! Red Letter Words! Lynne and I interviewed Dee Kasberger, who creates these when we did our Etsy show a few months ago. I told Mom later that my job is once again taking over my life, but this time I don't mind! I love it!

Then I saw this and willed myself not to buy it:

Hee hee hee!!!!

And at the end of the day, I rested on a glider on the porch of the Blue Gate Restaurant to ponder my adventures...you know...like busting in on a guy in the bathroom.

A fun day with fun friends!