PAS#5: NIttany Lion Inn Sunday Brunch

An iconic location at Penn State is the Nittany Lion Inn.  This Inn has been operating on Penn State campus since 1931.   As a special treat for my birthday my grandparents who live in nearby in Woodward Pa took me to Sunday brunch at the Nittany Lion Inn. 

It was a great experience not only eating at the Inn but walking around inside.  The building is amazing.  It is mainly a hotel that harkens back to the late 1800’s early 1900’s.  There are big wood burning fireplaces, beautiful columns and even real trees growing from the ground inside.... that was pretty neat.   I was unable to explore everywhere... but the building is huge.  Everywhere I went did not disappoint.

Now back to the Sunday Brunch.  For the brunch you could either do the buffet or order off a menu, of course my grandparents and I did the buffet.  I can honestly say this buffet was the highest quality buffet I have ever eaten at.  There was not a huge amount of choices for breakfast or lunch, but what they did have was all amazing and high quality. The bacon was without a doubt the best bacon I have ever had. 

The breakfast part of the buffet consist of waffles, pancakes, French toast breakfast burritos a few types of eggs and different types of meat.  I of course had to take a few rounds through to adequately sample everything, something more than once.

 

The lunch part was great with a four or five different types of pasta roast beef and other stuff. The best part of the lunch section in my opinion was they had smoked salmon, which I could honestly come and eat exclusively, but that would be a shame. 

To finish off there was a desert table.  Of course in the dinning halls there are desert tables, but this ones quality was vastly superior.  There was traditional cheesecake (My favorite), apple cobbler, and mint cheesecake, Pecan pie just to name a few.  It was amazing food; I probably ate more in that sitting than I had in the last week combined. 

Of course this breakfast buffet is not cheap in about 20$ a person, but it is defiantly worth it once in a while if you are going for quantity or quality.  It would even be worth it if you do not intend to gorge yourself.  I will be going back again at some point.  It might have been a bad thing that my grandparent introduced me to this place.  It will take real self-control to not just wake up on Sunday morning and walk over to the inn. 

The Inn does more than just the Sunday brunch buffet.  There is breakfast lunch and dinner everyday if you would like which is of course amazing as well.  It is a nice option to have on campus if you are ever in the mode for a more upscale eating experience than the dinning halls or Panera.

PAS#4 Spring Break

This will have been my first blog post in a while, partly due to Spring break.  Spring break will be the subject of this post since it encompassed the last ten days for me.

As any college student I look forward to my breaks, especially spring break, because it offers a chance to get out of the cold wet north and head south, where I am from, for some better weather.  This year I headed way south all the way to West Palm Beach in Florida.  My good friend and I drove from my home in North Carolina, to West Palm to meet up with some family that has a house on the beach there. 

Before we had even arrived I was aware of the beautiful weather.  I had left a cold PA earlier that same morning which was a cool 40 degrees.  In Florida it was a sunny 80 degrees.  It was defiantly worth the drive for the weather.

Once we arrived we immediacy set out to go fishing on Lake Worth, we waded which is super fun in nice water.  That night we caught some pretty good sized snook.  Of course our real play was going fishing out in the ocean for sailfish, which can be caught year round right off the coast of west palm.  The reason is the Gulf Stream is the closest to the shore in west palm compared in anywhere else’s in the US.

The next day we went with my grandpa to his boat to go out into the ocean.  We could tell from the house that the water was really rough because the wind had picked up, but we decided to go out anyway.  As we cruised thought the intercostal water way we say there was a wind warning and 10-15 foot swells in the ocean.  Those are some pretty big waves even in a good size boat.  We went out and had some fun riding the waves but did not do any fishing because of the weather.  Unfortunately, the wind only got worse through the week so we had to find other things to do.

The next day my grandpa in an attempt to makeup for the bad weather took us around to all the exotic car sales places.  We went to three different one all of them where kinda disguised and all the cars where inside.  The first one we went to probably had 20 Ferraris and a mix of Lamborghinis, porches, and Mercedes.  There where a few cars that where one-million plus which was mind blowing.  The other places we went had a mix of cars but they were more focused on high-end luxury like Bentleys and Rolls Royce still really neat. 

The rest of break we hung out at the beach explored an island and even braved the stormy ocean again before heading home.  Expect we did not drive straight to NC we had to make a stop at the University of Florida.  

My twin sister is on the gymnastics team for UNC Chapel Hill and they were having a meet in Florida Friday night.  If you don’t know anything about gymnastics all you need to know is Florida is 3X’s in a row national Champions. It was a really cool meet to go to because not only in Florida really good but it was there last home meet of the season so the gym was packed. 

After the meet I hung out with my sister who has a different spring break than me so I would not have been able to see her any other way.  It was strange to meet my sister in Florida so far from home.  The rest of my spring break involved driving and flying back to Pennsylvania where we return to cold damp sunless weather.  Hopefully spring will show up soon.