I think I'm going to have to rename this blog "whenever-I-can-get-to-it" impressions now that school has
resumed! I feel so behind in all that we've been doing! Let me start catching up with a review of what we did over the summer. We had planned on going out west this year, but with the cost of gas, and the schedule that Dave has had traveling, it just didn't seem possible. So, we opted to "piggy-back" on his final week of classes for the NECHLI program, which happened to be in DC. So, we too
k a week and went out to PA to stay in a condo offered to us by my alternate parents, Larry and Nancy Heacock. It was a blissful week in Blue Knob PA, where we were able to enjoy the quiet mountains. The kids love the nature parks, especially looking for crawdads in the streams! Jason puts his scout know-how to good use when we're on hikes!We visited the Altoona railway yard museum and the Horseshoe Bend. It's difficult to show a photo with a good perspective of this train-man's mecca, but SO very impressive in person. We paid our respects at the Flight 93 Memorial, which is currently a work in progress, but very poignant. And of course, always in search of a National Park that we haven't received a stamp from, we went to the Johnstown Flood National Memorial which was very well preserved and included a nature walk out onto the old earthen dam that failed.
Then we headed into DC for Dave's class. While he worked away, the kids and I toured DC. This time we focused on the Smithsonian Museums, which we had not done 3 years ago when we did the monuments. We also were able to visit the National Archives, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Holocaust Museum (briefly) and the Georgetown area. The kids and I took one night and went up to Annapolis to have dinner with the Heacocks, at their son's house - and the next day out for lunch with their eldest sons family.
I will have more updates coming soon - mixed in with some sneak peeks for my upcoming craft show / open house, so make sure to stop by each day!
Susan
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1 comment:
OK...as a "train man", let me correct you Suz and call it "Horseshoe Curve." That's what us railfans would call it. I've always wanted to go there, and plan to some day with the camera. Cool stuff there for sure.
See ya...Mark
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