On Day 2 of their stay we made our way to Gettysburg. It is harder to plan a 2 day trip rather than a 2 week trip. With 2 weeks you have lots of time and can go lots of places - and there are a ton of cool cities around: Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, and New York City. However, you don't want spend 3 hours in a car there and 3 hours back when you only have 2 days together. So, Gettysburg it waas. Plus, it is a very historical place and many consider it the turning point in the Civil War. Also, it is the place where Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address, perhaps the most famous speech in US history.
We also ended up meeting Jesse, one of the many people who have stayed with the Aochi family. Jesse was from Baltimore so Gettysburg was about half way. I think Hiroko and her dad had a good time although there was a lot of English, which was probably hard for her dad. We ended up going to the museum, watching the movie, checking out the cyclorama (a 22 ft high 279 ft circumference painting [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Cyclorama], going through the museum, grabbing some pizza for lunch, and checking out some of downtown Gettysburg before stopping for ice cream. I am a history geek. I loved Gettysburg.
Afterwards we stopped at Cabela's on the way home before having some Pennsylvania Dutch food for dinner - pigs in the blanket, which is sausage and porcupine meatballs (meatballs with rice) wrapped in cabbage and cooked in a tomato sauce. We spent the evening checking out deer and chitty chatting outside. And that concluded their stay in Pennsylvania. Otousan did invite Rebecca and I to stay in Japan for a month before going to Vietnam so we are going to take him up on that offer! Otousan, see you in Japan!!!
(Otousan at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center)
(The gang hanging out with Abraham Lincoln)
(Unfortunately Rebecca wasn't feeling so hot and ended up spending that night and the next 2 days sleeping...)
(Checking out a few artifacts from the Civil War)
(One of the views of the cyclorama. Can you imagine how long it took to paint a 22 ft high 279 ft long painting?)
(As you can see, it is pretty detailed. I think they said the artist had 22 assistants helping him with the painting...)
(Ammunition box)
(Old Flag)
(The bucktail brigade)
(Old cannon)
(Fused Bullets - that's a lot of lead being fired)
(Otousan being happy!)
(Deer in the front yard...)
(How can I get a good picture???)
(I have an idea...)
(Otousan stealth crawled over behind the bushes to get a closer shot of the deer)
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