Gettysburg

I put these pictures in reverse order and am too lazy to switch it out. On the long Thanksgiving weekend, we went to Gettysburg and did an auto tour (you buy a CD and follow along in your car). It was fascinating and educational. It truly puts things in a different light when one can be in the location where something took place and one can envision it so much more clearly. This picture was at the end of the day and at the place of the final battle on the third day. We had a lot of pictures, but I will not bore you with them all. The light on top of Anna's head makes her look like an angel (which she is, of course).

This is one of the many statues at the scene of the final battle, but it was also one of my favorite pictures that Alex took.

Here is Christopher inspecting a cannon.

The boys enjoyed running around. As we were listening to the information on the CD, Christopher was taking notes in his notebook. At one of our pitstops, Christopher commented that even though Alex and I might think that he was bored, he wanted to reassure us that he was listening and learning and finding it all very interesting. We were glad for the reassurance.