Oct 26-27 Gettysburg

Sunday was our trip to Gettysburg--a memorial to a Civil War battle that covered 24 square miles. After a visit to the memorial center, a two-hour tour of the wonderful museum, along with a half-hour film, we bought the self-guided auto tour CD and drove the 24-mile route. Because it is such a vast area, it was really difficult to find meaningful pictures--guess you had to be there to have it make any sense. It was a tour of some beautiful, rolling countryside and hundreds of statues and memorials, but looking at the pictures today, I'm not even sure what they represent--other than it was a three-day battle that took the lives of over 50,000 people. Unbelievable.

Monday, we took off for Virginia, and thankfully, we made it. We had been leery of the traffic around the Washington, DC area, and it was just as bad as we had dreaded. White knuckles all the way with big rigs surrounding us on all sides and people who were obviously late for work whizzing in and out of the whole mess. What a relief to finally pull into the RV park in Williamsburg. We plan to stay here three or four days so we can see the sights here in Williamsburg and in Jamestown and Yorktown. It's pouring rain tonight, but we're expecting clearing weather tomorrow. We have dog grooming appointments for Jessie and Cody tomorrow--boy what a mess they are--lots of tangles and knots in their hair. Worse than mine was before I was able to find a groomer for myself :-0

Biggest news of the day--we paid only $2.29 for gas here in VA. Yippee!!!