The Pennsylvania Tour Round 1

This will be the first installment of a series of post with our trip to Pennsylvania. It was great fun and we thought we might make it a bi-annual trip...yes, we talked about that the week we were there relaxing in our host house (The Whitehill family was brave nice enough to take us in for a week)..that was before the trip home. Now we are thinking once every 8 years might just be enough for us..

Daddy set up a rolling entertainment center

 See our 19 inch tv there in the left hand corner.

You know - we really did not watch it a lot. We listened to so many audio books though! I found that the kids were more ansy after watching something so we just decided that it was easier and nicer on everyone to just listen to our books. They really enjoyed it - we listened to The Black Stallion, Ralph S Mouse ( I would never recommend this book- that mouse has a very bad attitude), Ben and Me, Little House in the Big Woods, and Shiloh - I think that was all of them...

 



Loved this house on the Mississippi - beautiful view

Jack and Jay with the memory game I bought for the trip - they really enjoyed this

 

Thomas helping Katie with her stitching

 



at a State park we stopped at for lunch

They really liked this little pinecones

Jay thought we could not see him since he could not see us

 

I looked back at some point and saw these put together in the floor

 



really neat fence in Pennsylvania - this was at the Gettysburg battlefield

the houses up there are SO big!

Look - its a WAWA (only Christi will get this)

These neat old houses had their age printed on them! There was a town full of these!

eating lunch at Longwood Gardens

Bella found a friend

nice to see he does not act any better for Katie

 The fountain at Longwood Gardens was fun for the kids

Katie posing Card

Card posing Jay

and Mommy just having fun

Card took this one of Jay also

Everyone was super happy to take this

the "Big Hill"

 on our host recommendation we went to a place called Boomers on a really nasty rainy day. The kids had a blast on the big indoor slides

Katie got a couple of pictures of some Amish buggies