Gettysburg

A few weeks ago we took a drive over to Gettysburg, PA to see where the 3 day battle during the Civil War was fought. It is beautiful countryside with monuments everywhere. We did the car tour with a CD and went at our own pace. The CD was great with story after story and explanations of every stoping point. We camped overnight with a campsight with showers (of course!) and Landon did pretty well considering he was pretty sick. I really enjoyed seeing Gettysburg because when I was teaching fifth grade US History is part of the curiculum. One of the schools I taught at did a 3 day reinactment which was really fun.

Here's a story for you to laugh at.....Landon wakes up in the middle of the night at ends up on the air mattress with us. Since Landon is having a hard time getting comfortable and wants to lay horizontal, I offered to Troy for him to use our huge, puffy, extra blanket and sleep on the other side of the tent so he won't continue to be kicked by Landon. He went and when he got off the air mattress I realized that there is a hole in it because I sank down to the ground and continued sinking the rest of the night--no fun. Landon gets comfortable and goes to sleep but will only sleep on me. When I move him to the other side of the mattress he comes right back. Meanwhile, Troy is on the other side of the tent snoring like thunder. I can't get up to go tap him to stop so I see our shoes next to me and start throwing them across the tent to wake him up so he'll adjust. He wakes up, looks around, and before I can tell him anything, he lays his head back down and starts snoring again. I was out of shoes and hope at this point. The next thing I know, birds are chirping and Troy wakes up saying he didn't sleep a wink. Oh, I let him know that he slept more than a wink and that I needed a back rug and a large Coke. We had a good laugh about the shoe toss!

This is Day One battlefield.
Troy at the ongoing lighted flame monument.

General Lee and his horse, Traveler.

Day Two battlefield.

Here we are at a lookout tower.

At camp.

We had a duck get really brave and come visit our camp! Landon loved it. The duck followed him to our tent. Can you see it in the picture below?

Our campsight was on this creek and we spent the evening throwing rocks in.

This is Day 2 of our sight seeing and also a continuation of Day 2 battle. We are on Little Round Top which is the opposite side of the Day 2 battlefield.

Day 3 battlefield, this is where Pickett's charge took place.

The cemetary.