Jocelyn's blog
May. 3, 2008
Last week in DC
Posted in USA Trip
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I've looked back at the blog and realised that the whole week has gone by!!! Monday was a home day and shopping day. Tuesday, we hired a car and went up to Gettysburg. It's only an hour and a half from here and it was a pleasant drive. The Houghtons had an audio guide which takes you through each stage of the battle over the three days. Putting that on and driving around this huge theatre of the war was incredible. I certainly had a greater appreciation for the significance of this battle and the huge sacrifices involved. That pretty much took the day - by the time we got there, spent 3 hours going around the battlefields, tried to find Andrew a donut and a coffee, bought Civil War caps and then came back. Wednesday, we stayed home and caught up on washing and other tasks. One of those was getting our hire car or the last leg of our trip. Andrew had to get himself out to Dulles airport to pick it up. It was good to have a down day after Gettysburg. Thursday was full-on! We got up earlier and drove out to the National Zoo. It is a nice zoo but some exhibits were empty and we were glad it was free as if we had paid a lot of money, we'd have been disappointed. We did see the giant pandas and the orang-utan walking across the huge rail that goes through the zoo. The zoo is pretty, with lots of trees surrounding it. Later that day, we had the Bozarths coming over to join us for dinner. It was just great to see them all again and to talk. Little Hudson was much grown and he and Mark hit it off together. Ginny is a gorgeous little baby and the older children were just lovely. Friday, yesterday, was Adam's 7th birthday! The Houghtons had a Renaissance Day at Lachlan's school so we got all dressed up and joined them for those festivities. The pictures are on Facebook. You'll see monks who were ministering to physical needs - operating cotton candy, snow cones and popcorn. It was a hit on the day! The jousting tournament was fantastic - Adam won through 6 times and tied on several other occasions! The archery was done well with pipe used for the arrows. Some creative person did that well. My boys knocked down the apple several times and were quite good shots. The "Queen" arrived, followed by singers and proclaimed the day open and there were some items in the hall as well. Older students did the last act of "A Merchant of Venice" and younger children did some Renaissance dancing. It was great but a really sunny day and we got a bit tired from it in the end. Dinner was Adam's choice - meat pies. Meat pies in America? Yes! Carmel showed me how she makes it herself so we had that with roast potato and then the cake. Today, we head off to Philadelphia and we will stay in a farm stay on the edge of Amish country. It's unlikely that we'll have email access again until Tuesday. At that time, we'll have spent all of Tuesday heading north to Niagara Falls. Must go - gotta pack, |
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