Three weeks later, I get a call while sitting in my home office again.
"Is this Mike?" the girl on the other end asks.
"Yes, is this Ashley Tisdale?" I ask.
"It is, I'll be arriving tomorrow morning at about 11 o' Clock." Ashley tells me.
"Great, I'll be there to pick you up." I tell her.
"What was Vanessa's verdict on her visit?" I ask.
"Oh she told me she had a lot of fun while she was there." Ashley says. "Never saw so much beautiful scenery in one place before." She continued.
"Well, good, I'm glad she gave you a good review, are you excited for your visit?" I ask.
"I am, I can't wait to get out of Cali for a while." Ashley tells me.
"Well, I'm excited that you decided to come out to visit, not many celebrities would probably do anything like this." I tell her.
"That's for sure, most of them are stuck up assholes and wouldn't lift a finger for anyone." Ashley continued.
"So, your from New Jersey, have you ever been up to Amish Country, Pennsylvania?" I ask.
"No, not really, I've driven through there with my parents, but I've never spent any time there." Ashley tells me.
"Well good, you'll probably love it up there." I say.
Ashley and I spend almost an hour on the phone, talking back and forth and making each other laugh.
The next morning, I hop into my Plymouth and head down to Philadelphia International Airport to pick up Ashley.
I waited at the restaurant as I did when picking up Vanessa a few weeks earlier. At half past eleven, Ashley's plane touches down. I head into the terminal to meet her and wait for her.
I didn't see Ashley until the last few people were off of the plane. As soon as I saw her, I walked over and introduced myself to her.
"Sorry I'm late." Ashley says.
"Hey, it's not a problem, I have all day." I say jokingly.
Ashley and I head over to the baggage claim to pick up her things before heading out to the parking garage. We get into my Plymouth and make our way to Lancaster County.
About a mile from the airport I hear the blaring of a police car siren behind us.
"Oh shit, what did I do?" I thought to myself.
I look in the rear view and see that the police car was right behind me. I pull my car to the side of the road and hit the "P" button on the push button transmission.
I reach into my pocket for my wallet and license. When the police officer reaches my window I begin to hand him my license.
"Oh no, no call for that." The officer says.
"I just wanted to tell you how nice your car was, My father had one like this when I was a boy." he continues.
"Really, was it a Belvedere like this?" I ask.
"No, I think his was a Savoy or a Plaza, I can't be sure though." The officer tells me.
Bending down and peering through to the passenger side, the officer catches a glimpse of Ashley in the passenger seat.
"Your Ashley Tisdale aren't you?" the office asks.
"Yeah, hello." Ashley says, reaching out her hand for the officer to shake it.
"I'd hate to bother you, but my daughter really loves you, would you mind if I got your autograph for her?" The officer requests.
"No problem at all, I have some promotional pictures here in my bag." Ashley says and reaches into the back seat.
Ashley pulls out a color promo picture from her bag and a red sharpie marker and she begins to sign her name to it.
"What's your daughter's name?" Ashley asks the officer.
"Her name is Wendy." The officer responds.
Ashley writes a short greeting on the photo and hands it to the Officer.
"She's going to love this." The officer exclaims. "Can I bother you for a picture with you?" he asks.
"Sure, I don't mind." Ashley responds.
"Great, I'll be right back." The officer says, and heads back to his patrol car.
Thirty seconds later, he comes back with a small digital camera in his hand. Ashley steps out of the car and I slide out my side and walk to the back of my car with her.
"Ok guys, get over there by the divider and I'll take the picture for you." I tell them.
Ashley and the officer stand by the lane divider and smile for the camera.
I snap a picture and hand the camera back to the officer.
"Thank you, so much, Wendy will be so happy that I got your autograph." the officer says.
"It's no problem, tell her I said "Hello" ok?" Ashley says.
"Oh, I will." The officer responds.
Ashley and I get back into my car and continue our ride to Amish Country.
"Wow, that was bizarre." I tell Ashley.
"I know, that cop seemed weird, but nice." Ashley says.
"Yeah, he seemed nice, but wow." I joked with Ashley.
Just over an hour and a half later, Ashley and I arrive in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. As with Vanessa, I took Ashley shopping at some of the stores in the area, and after shopping we stopped at Good 'n' Plenty. At Good 'n' Plenty, Ashley seemed kind of nervous.
"Why do they sit like this here?" Ashley whispers to me, over the table.
"It's called family style, the Amish sit man, woman all the way down the table." I tell her.
Our waitress introduces herself to the fifteen or twenty other people who were seated at the table.
"Ok now, where is everybody from?" the waitress asks.
"Ohio." one couple says. "Missouri." another group tells her. "Mississippi." says another group. "California." Ashley says. "Pennsylvania." I tell the waitress.
Following that, the waitress begins explaining the Amish style food that they will be serving, and begins listing all the food. "We have fried and baked chicken, crushed corn, ham loaf, real mashed potatoes..."
The waitress continues naming all of the food items that we will be served.
Ten minutes later, the waitress comes back with a huge tray with varying dishes on them and beings to set them through the table. The party at the end of the table begins dishing out their meal and passes it down for everyone else.
Ashley and I spent an hour at Good 'n' Plenty and we decided to skip having any dessert. We leave the restaurant and head out to do a little more site seeing before heading to the Red Caboose motel.
Around 9:30 that night we arrive at the Red Caboose and head over to the office. At that time of night the office was closed, by all reserved Cabooses keys were left in a drop box on the front of the store. I grabbed the key for the Caboose that I reserved and I headed back to my car. We drive around the parking lot to the third set of Cabooses to our reserved Caboose.
As soon as we got there I knew something didn't look right. I get out and walk over to open the passenger door for Ashley. Then we head into the Caboose.
"Awww man!" I shout.
"What's wrong?" Ashley asks.
"They gave me a single family Caboose not a double with the divider in the middle like I requested." I tell her.
"Don't worry about it, Mike." Ashley tells me.
Well, I'll figure something out." I tell her.
Ashley and I head out to the car to get out luggage and head back into the Caboose. We set out stuff down and I turn on the T.V.
"Well, how do you like it?" I ask Ashley.
"It's neat, I never thought I'd ever sleep in a train car before." Ashley says.
"You don't like it do you?" I ask, detecting a tone in her voice.
"No, I really do." She replies.
Ashley and I settle down to watch one of the complementary DVD's supplied by the motel staff.
We watch the movie "Sum of all Fears" starring Ben Afleck and by midnight, the movie ends.
"I'm so tired." Ashley says.
"Me too, but you had a long flight this morning." I respond.
Ashley excuses herself to the bathroom grabbing one of her smaller bags as she walks past me. A few minutes later, Ashley emerges from the bathroom wearing her nightwear. A pair of form fitting pajama pants and a tight white T-shirt. She lays down on the bed and closes her eyes.