The One Where We Went to Gettysburg (part 1,2, & 3)

As I’ve said we’ve been through Pennsylvania quite a bit, and while we still haven’t toured Pittsburg (despite being there a lot) we have been to Gettysburg three times. We love it.

The first time we went, we were in the next town over or two towns over. I hadn’t used any personal miles because we spent the weekend with friends and they’d drive us places, or I’d walk, or stop on the way and it was the end of the month (our miles don’t roll over). My exact words were “I want to use up some personal miles so I don’t look boring”. After our show, we decided to go. We ended up taking the auto tour and it was a blast.

We walked through this field – just because – it was a beautiful day and I got a little bit sunburnt. After taking a million pictures of fields (a large amount of the same few fields but at a different angle :P) we were tired and ate some dinner at friendlys.




The next time we went we stayed in the wyndhym right next to the theater and we decided to do the town tour. So we walked up and down the shops – it was a Tuesday and most of the museums were closed – as were the books stores. So we went in a bunch of antique and thrift stores but didn’t find anything worth buying. But we did find this cute little shop that sold guns and jewelry and bought some cameo earrings. Then went to a field of course.

And we watched the hunger games! … again :P

Then we stayed for another weekend and there seemed to be a greyhound convention at the days inn. But we walked around the town, hit up some book stores, antique shops, and went back to the jewelry store for more treasures. And Reeb bought a sword. The Museum of History was finally open (we always seemed to go when it was closed) so that was interesting. The owner is a private collector with a wide selection of artifacts, like locks of hair, Lincoln’s opera glasses, a small patch of bloodstained limousine upholstery from JRK’s assassination, and the flag that flew during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He opens the exhibits free of charge and if you’re ever in town I highly recommend it. Then to finish of the weekend we played freebie on a battlefield.

Gettysburg is probably one of my favorite tiny cities.