Gettysburg Part 1

We got a bit of a late start this morning, but finally made it to the brand new (only 8 days old) visitor's center to get some info on how best to tour this place. Had to park kind of far away and weren't allowed to bring in backpacks (which is our diaper bag right now) so Jonathan ran it all the way back to the car. While he was gone Jackson said he had a stomachache and so I tried calling Jonathan on his cell phone to have him get some Tums out of the bag. Jonathan didn't answer...so he had to huff it back to the car after he showed up and realized that we needed them. While he was gone Jackson started complaining that he was REALLY hungry so I called Jonathan's cell phone to have him get some crackers out of the bag before he came back. He didn't answer until he was half way back, at which time he had to turn back around and get the crackers. This is how happy he was when he finally made it back to us...

Thank you Jonathan! I love you!
Once inside the spiffy new visitor's center we bought a car cd audio tour so that we could take the tour from our own car on our own time. We also decided to take a look at the museum they had there too. It ended up taking us an hour to make it through the museum, but we saw some pretty cool stuff. Actual drums, guns, and uniforms worn by soldiers, as well as medical instruments, flags flown during battles etc. It was very informative and a great starter to this tour. The picture of the whole family is taken infront of the Gettysburg address written on the window. Jonathan and I were really excited this morning about getting to see this place (Gettysburg), but the reality of what happened here and what it meant as well as how tragic the deaths were was all summed up in this quote.


After the museum we had some lunch at the "refreshment saloon" aka extremely over priced lunchroom. We decided that our table was cursed. During the course of the meal Cooper knocked over his cup of water and ended up with a soaked lap. I mean soaked. After getting it all cleaned up we proceeded to eat and during the coarse of our meal two different people spilled drinks right next to our table. We kind of laughed that there was something wrong with the area we sat in and then...Jonathan knocked over a completely full glass of water on our table. Hah hahahahahah.
We only made it through half of the tour today due to some other 'incidents'(kids), but here are a few pictures of what we've seen. Through out the whole day we kept saying how much my dad would love this place. I think this kind of stuff is his cup of tea. Anyway, I don't remember exactly where the next three picture were, and it's too late and I'm too tired to find the booklet and figure it out right now, but Cooper is in one of the pictures if you look close. The boys loved being able to get out and run around in the grass. I do remember that the last picture was taken on a lookout on Little Round Top, an important part of the battle (if you care to look it up).