Last weekend the boys and I picked up Mary Ann on Friday evening from Phillie airport. Sandwiches and a cup of tea were provided!!
Saturday morning MA and I went to the gym while Nicholas was in the kids club. We picked up bagels on the way home. After putzing around home for a while it was off to Hershey Park which is about 2 hrs away in Pennsylvania. We got to the hotel we were staying about 2.30 and then went off to a brew pub for a late lunch early dinner.
We arrived at the park about 5pm (it was open until 10). MA was a trooper, going on all the rides with the boys as Daddy is a complete wimp when it comes to roller coaster rides. MA and Kieran even went on the really fast, super high one.
Nicholas and I spent a bit of time on the bumper cars, but fortunately, he was old enough to go on quite a few of the rides himself.
Sunday morning we had breakfast at the hotel and then drove to Gettysburg to have a look around the battlefield. We went to the cemetery where Lincoln gave the famous "Gettysburg address". The story Lincoln penned the words on the train up from Washington to Gettysburg. he had been asked to say just a few words to commemorate the soldiers who had died on the battlefield. The Governor of Massachusetts had just spoken for 2 hours before Lincoln got up. Lincoln spoke for 2 minutes and left the stage thinking he had disappointed the 20,000 odd people who had turned up. At the time he didn't know it would go down as one of the most famous speeches given by an American President. I tried to use that story as a lesson for Kieran and Nicholas - brevity is good!!!
We bought a CD and did a driving tour of the battlefield. It was really interesting, and over quite a large area. I think the boys got a bit bored during the drive.
We stopped in Gettysburg to have an early dinner, then drove back. We stopped MA at Phille airport and then I drove the boys back to Anita's.
If Kieran ever becomes a world famous American historian this could be the photo on the dust cover of his best selling book "My first trip to Gettysburg".
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