Amish Country Spent another wonderful day with a terrific family whom we have known for 19 years and haven’t seen each other for 15 years and it seems that we can just pick up on the friendship where we left off. I was bridesmaid for Wade and Janelle’s wedding and Kelsie is their beautiful daughter. Anyway went to Friedens Lutheran Church this morning and it was like going back in time as this was a church where our team Captive Free played back in 1991. A...

Gettysburg Battlefield Today we went to see the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg. This was a devastating, yet turning point battle between the North and South fought on July 1,2 & 3 of 1863. The Civil War has been described as the second war for independence. It was fought for 3 fundamental reasons. 1. The freedom of slavery 2. The preservation of the United States, and 3. What it meant to be an American. The first two were settled, however, the th...

Hershey Park Everyone was so excited when we woke up because we are going to Hershey Park!! Hersey is a chocolate factory, which has an amusement park attached to it. We went with the Salem’s and went on rollercoaster’s but first went on a slow ride through the factory. But we got a free bar of chocolate at the end! The very first ride we went on was a carousel that went quite fast and then rode on rollercoaster’s! The second was the sooperdooperl...

Valley Forge Today was a hot and humid day with a temperature of 97F. Not the best day to go and wander a huge area set aside to remember Valley Forge, but the only day we have so …. Sunscreen on and map in hand we drove through the rambling countryside of Pennsylvania. No road is straight and without the help of out GPS (Julia) we would never have found anywhere. Being so humid the countryside is so lush and green – I love this area. We always thought Val...

Philadelphia We went to historic Philadelphia by train today. The train ride was long because it had around 25 stops. When we arrived we walked to the visitor’s center and watched a movie about the Independence of 1776. We also got our junior ranger badges, where we learned lots about the colonial period. We walked over to Liberty Bell and found out that we could get some free trading cards with the founding fathers of the USA on them. We ended up getting ...