Not Quite an In 'N Out, but Close, Very Close

We were sooooooo hungry for In 'N Out the other day. I'd mentioned that to Valerie Armstrong, a former co-worker one day and she told me about "Five Guys" which is as close as you can come to the famous In 'N Out. I did a search on Mapquest and located this one just north of Akron (about 35 miles from our home). The drive was well worth it. We mentioned to the guys behind the counter that we'd heard this was similar to our favorite burgers and they wanted our "feed back"...no pun intended. We knew it was going to be good when we had trouble finding a parking place and it was hardly 11:00. The place was packed. The place smelled like In 'N Out when we walked in; that was a good thing. We were sorry when our meal was over. We will be anxious to try it again. Thanks Val!

It says "burgers and fries", but they also have hot dogs. You can also have mushrooms on your burger and they offer grilled onions as well as raw. We went with the raw.

Happy Groundhog Day!

In October we took a drive to Punxsutawney, PA. "Groundhog Day" is one of my favorite movies and I wanted to see where it was filmed. We found out it wasn't actually filmed here; it was filmed in Illinois. Too bad, because this town is really very quaint. The day we visited, we had Gobbler's Knob all to ourselves. According to the news , there were over 40,000 people there this morning to see Punxsutawney Phil predict 6 more weeks of winter. I'm not real happy about that!

I can't imagine 40,000 people descending on this little town.

This is where Punxsutawney Phil actually lives...the picture is not very good since it's taken through a window in the town library. Phil did not want to pose for a picture.

There are statues of Phil all around the town. Someone told us there were 50 some. We didn't bother to find all of them, but here is one. (the statue is the one in the middle)!