Spending Some Time In Gettysburg

We live just 15 min from Gettysburg Pa now so we decided to take a drive today. It worked out great, being Presidents Day, Daddy had the day off and the American Civil War Museum and Gettysburg Gift Center was open and free for the day.

We had to take the opportunity to stand next to a canon for a family picture (all but me, the bonus for being the photographer).

Sissy had a great time, the museum was great. The entire thing is a winding hall of life sized, period, scenes. Each one a three dimensional photograph of the people and places of the Civil War period. There were plaques detailing what the scenes were about and some had moving parts and audio to go along.
 
The only thing that I didn't like was that the entire thing made the Civil War about freeing slavery. Don't get me wrong, ending slavery was a bonus for the war but it isn't what the war was about. Perhaps they change the scenes to reflect different aspects of the war from time to time.

Overall, we had a great day with Daddy and that was just as great as going to a famous place!