92 County Tour: Huntington County

Ready for another break from health chatter? Today is your day!

Can you believe we haven't been on a county tour in FOUR MONTHS?? The end of last year got a little bit chaotic on us, and our attempt to take a tour in January was derailed by the beginning of the gallbladder debacle, so we were DETERMINED to get one squashed into February. Of course on our appointed day, Indiana got MORE snow, but we didn't care. We went anyway!

Next up for us was Huntington County, which actually borders our own county to the north. I drive through Huntington County FREQUENTLY during the winter months, because my trusty "back way" to work treks right through it. Because of that, this kind of felt like another home county for me!

Huntington County was named after Samuel Huntington, whose signature can be found on the Declaration of Independence. This county also really has only one significant city - also named Huntington. Originally I intended for us to also stroll through Roanoke which is an adorable little town just north of Huntington, but we didn't end up getting there, which was okay. We had fun doing what we did!

This was our first time to do a county date DURING a snowfall, and it made for some very cute pictures.

Our first stop was the Forks of the Wabash. We'd been there before...last fall, actually, when we went with Ryan's mom to have our Christmas card pictures taken. The Forks are a beautiful place for pictures!

There are several historic cabins and a little gift shop there, and we thought they were very pretty in the snow!!

After we left the Forks, we tried to go to the Sunken Gardens, where we also had Christmas cards taken last year but alas, the parking lot had not been cleared, and even in our 4 wheel drive car, we were afraid we would get stuck. So we skipped that and headed to lunch instead.

Last month, after we left the ER, we stopped at the Pizza Junction, which is a pizza shop in an old train depot. I was too sick to eat last time, but this weekend, we went back!!! It was snowing pretty hard by the time we arrived:

We ordered subs, since I am trying to be careful about greasy pizza right now. A train actually came through while we were eating, but we were on the wrong side of the restaurant to see it. Pretty cool to hear it zoom by though!

After lunch, we went to a vintage store, called Antiqology, which several people had recommended as a must-see stop while in town! They actually sold ice cream - like a soda fountain counter kind of feel, but we were headed for coffee, so we didn't do that this time. They did, however, have a full WALL of craft sodas in glass bottles, and we picked out a bottle of root beer. We asked the guy his root beer recommendation, and he said they had SIXTY-TWO kinds of root beer alone! WHAT!?!? We brought it home to have POST surgery.

The rest of the store was filled with REALLY COOL vintage finds. Check it out!

My favorite find was this original file cabinet, custom made for the Huntington County Courthouse back when it was first built over a hundred years ago! It was several hundred dollars more than our budget allows...so we couldn't have it. But it is amazing.

After leaving Antiqology, we went to the Party Shop - a little coffee shop that also specializes in fine chocolates. Sounds like the perfect pairing to me!

I got a fru fru raspberry crumble latte, and Ryan got fresh brew and one of their delicious turtles.

They were serious about their candy in there!!

And our last stop before leaving town was Huntington University. We had to stop by for a photo opp for some of our friends who went there. We have some memories here too, as the Fandana Music Festival that we we worked a couple of summers ago was held on its campus!

So that was our snowy, Huntington County date!! We had a great time, despite the crazy weather. Can't wait to head to the next destination!