Gettysburg

We were happy to have visitors for Thanksgiving! One day we traveled up to Gettysburg. It happened to be special day (but now I have forgotten what it was) and so there were authors there and we were able to meet Jeff Shaara who wrote Gods and Generals and whose father wrote Killer Angels which is a favorite book of ours. We enjoyed the film and the cyclorama show but we didn't have enough time to see the rest of the museum. We wanted to get out and see the actual battlefield. The kid's favorite parts were climbing the tower and climbing the rocks on Little Round Top. One of the neatest things was that at night they lit hundreds, probably thousands of the graves in the cemetery. It was a beautiful sight and being there makes you appreciative of all those who have given their lives for our country. (I think the event was the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.)