The Joy of Audio Tours

Jon and I drove up to Gettysburg, PA. yesterday. Since he has to work tomorrow, on Labor Day, we wanted to at least get out of the house on Saturday. So we treked up there (it was only an hour and a half) and saw Gettysburg.

We were "super-nerds" this time around and bought the audio CD tour. And on top of that, not only did we buy the cd for the tour, but we have cd-rom to use at home, where just today, we learned all about how to load a cannon (actually, pretty interesting), and other stuff that I ignored. Yes, you pay extra for that sort of entertainment! The driving tour was only supposed to be 2 hours, but I think that is for people who don't get out of their car. Which we did. A lot.

Jon really loves battlefields. They are growing on me. I like the scenery and the ambience and sometimes I pay attention to the actual story or the battle itself. But this time, I was actually engrossed. Maybe engrossed is too strong of a word. I paid attention. The first picture is at Devil's Den. It's a big rock formation that kinda reminded us of the rocks out west. The second picture, is, uh, Confederate soldiers. Or reinactors. One of the two. I guess it was a big weeked with the reinactors. I really wanted a picture with one of them, but never got up the nerve. We didn't see one Union soldier though. We were above the Mason-Dixon line, but not by much. Jon reminds me that we did see a whole encampment of Union soldiers somewhere, but they weren't very exciting.

And the last picture is the view of Little Round Top from Devil's Den. You'll just have to look up the actual battle to figure out what happened here. Or borrow our cd.

In other Funk news, I start school on Tuesday. I'm starting a master's program at Johns Hopkins- for my MA in Communications. I'll still be working full time, while taking 2 classes. This is my first time working and going to school at the same time, so wish me luck!

Happy Labor Day! Don't work too hard!