Saturday, October 14
Not to be outdone by Tan & Chez, we also visited Gettysburg. DH loves history and had just recently read a biography on President Lincoln, so we decided to take a trip up there to visit the battlefield with my parents. Gettysburg is less than 2 hours from my parent's house, just past the Maryland border into Pennsylvania. It turned out to be a pretty chilly and windy day, but it was interesting learning some of the history of the war and seeing the pretty countryside.
We climbed a very tall observation tower there to see across the valley. You can't tell how tall it is from these pictures, but M&M counted 121 steps as we were coming down. It was VERY COLD and WINDY up at the top!!
Gettysburg is an interesting place to visit because you drive around an auto tour of the battle site and can stop at designated sites along the way which have descriptions of what happened at that particular spot. All along the driving tour though, there are monuments all along the road which have been erected by different groups to recognize different groups/people that participated in the battle. One could easily spend several days there trying to see and read everything.
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