Hi everyone!
As spring break comes to a close, I figured I would tell you guys about my spring break trip and of course the restaurant I went to while I was on break! First of all, the original plan was to go to the Pocono Mountains for a ski trip. I checked the weather prior to my trip and it didn’t look too good. We went this past Tuesday-Thursday and it said it was going to rain the whole time during our trip 😦 I started going on panic mode. What am I supposed to do in the Poconos if we can’t ski! Welp! That’s what Google is for right? So like any American this day and age would do, I went to Google:
and clicked on the first link:
As I began my research of things to do, I discovered that a lot of these places were closed because it wasn’t spring yet and since many of these things had to do with being outside, the rainy weather wouldn’t make things better. So my boyfriend and I kind of just went with it and tried to think of things to do inside.
Tuesday afternoon we checked in at the Comfort Inn – Pocono Mountains. Then decided we would go out to dinner and watch a movie afterwards, cute little date night, I know 🙂 We decided on a restaurant called “Forks Family Restaurant“. When we looked at the menu, everything was reasonably priced for us being college kids and there was a variety of items on the menu. When we looked at the directions, we were surprised at how close it was to our hotel. 
Here are some pictures of the restaurant:
For my dinner I chose a caesar salad and one of the restaurant’s dinner specials, bacon wrapped in pork tenderloin with a balsamic glaze and apple chutney. The entrée came with mashed potatoes and vegetables of the day.
After our meal, my boyfriend and I looked at each other and said “we have to come back here again next time we’re up here”. For a family restaurant, this restaurant was one good ass place. The service was really good and the waitress was helpful in suggesting items on the menu since we were first time visitors. If you’re in the Pocono Mountains area, I high suggest you visiting this restaurant! Afterward, we went to a movie theatre in Wilkes-Barre, a nearby town next to the town we were staying in. The movie we watched was “London has Fallen”, very good movie to see if you’re an action thriller lover like myself! After the movie, we drove home and went straight to bed.
The next day was the day we were supposed to go skiing. That morning I checked the snow report for Jack Frost Big Boulder:
COOOOOOOOOL. This was the main reason on why we decided to go up to the Pocono Mountains! To be honest, I was tooooootallly pissed like beyond pissed.
We still wanted to make the best of our time there so we went to our hotel lobby and asked the hotel employees for some help. They had pamphlets of activities to do around the area and we looked at each of them. There was a paper the front desk receptionist printed out for us that had local activities. One of the activities was bowling. I thought, “why not?”. Ryan, my boyfriend, and I have been dating for almost a year and we haven’t gone bowling together yet so why the hell not. We got ready for our day and decided to go to a nearby Subway for lunch then afterward we would go bowling. We chose a bowling alley called “Stanton Lanes” because they had a deal on Wednesday. Their awesome deal was 2 hours of bowling, 2 slices of pizza, a beverage drink, and shoe rental, all for $9.95. We definitely couldn’t pass this offer. Also the bowling alley was only a half hour from our hotel, also in Wilkes-Barre, like the movie theatre. We had a really great time bowling and kind of got a bit competitive, like all couples do when it comes to sports.
I take a look back at my Spring Break trip and regret nothing. Though I wish we could’ve went skiing, I was still able to spend time with my boyfriend and that was the ultimate goal of my trip. Not being able to ski this year just gives us an excuse to try again next year! Let me know how your spring break went and what you did! Also thanks for showing some love and viewing my page 🙂
-Elisa
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