Gettysburg

We visited Gettysburg, which is something we've always wanted to do, but thought we would have plenty of time to go and see it. But, "time marches on" and suddenly we are racing to visit the places we have taken for granted for the past four years. The Visitor's Center was quite humbling and was so impressive -- we could have spent hours in there, but our spunky two-year old had a different idea about it! We went on a tour of the sites and was accompanied by a nice man on a tape that explained the significance of the sites. It was a long time in the car, but amazingly Garrett slept for most of it and we entertained Cole with Thomas the Train DVDs. At one point the boys got a little fussy, so I had to squeeze my not so small behind between two large car seats (as you can see in the pictures). I rode back there for a bit of the ride home, but when we stopped for gas I had to move to the front seat. My inflexible body wasn't made for sitting like that!


One of the places we stopped was the Eisenhower Tower that overlooks the area and the battle fields that have been preserved. Cole insisted on walking up the tower with me and wanted to do it himself (can you tell he's two?!). He kept saying, "I do it myself!" whenever I tried to carry him. While Cole was heading up, a man stopped and said to Cole, "Tell your mama to carry you" and acted like I was the worst mother and was forcing him to walk the stairs. I kindly explained to the man the Cole's determination to be independent, but really I wanted tell him to worry about his own business! Cole and I made it up and down just fine and even got a few pictures in the process.