Over the Fourth of July weekend we went to Gettysburg PA for the 150th commemoration of the civil war battle. We had so much fun!
We left on the fourth and stayed the night in Alexandria, VA and watched the fireworks from the National Mall.
On Friday, we headed into Washington DC and checked out Arlington National Cemetery. It was so amazing! Mr. RCGG’s uncle is buried there so we found his grave.
We also saw President Kennedy’s grave. It was such an emotional site.
As we were walking around we found some really cool graves. One of them was Abner Doubleday, the founder of baseball!!
We also visited the Tomb of the Unknowns and caught the changing of the guard.
All I can say about this is WOW!!!! This was such a moving ceremony and I am so glad that we were able to catch it. It is for sure one of the things that everyone must see at least once in their life!
After Arlington we drove around DC for a little bit trying to find the White House. We saw it from the road, but that was about it. I couldn’t get that great of a picture so we will just go with no picture.
After DC we drove up to Gettysburg!
We had such a fun time in Gettysburg! There was so much to see that we didn’t get it all done in this one trip! It is such a quiet little town except on the reenactment weekend! There were people everywhere.
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We are already talking about going back next year!
