Hampton Inn Carlisle Pa

So, I just had to post this awesome story. In this show, I am playing the mother, Kathryn Dover, to five little girls (one at a time of course!) who play my daughter named Sarah Dover. As they are all different, with different personalities, they all get different middle names, and as their 'mother' I get to pick those middle names. And one little ...

... to pinch myself!! The History of this State is something that is mind boggling: I feel soo blessed to have been able to stand in these places and be a part of understanding and learning about the History of this great country.

Being at the Arlington National Cemetery and Watching a Military funeral with all the pomp and ceremony just left me soo moved. The tomb of the unknown soldier.. WOW!!

... of the little girls who play Sarah. They have had to cast three more little girls to alternate the role throughout the run. (Child Labor Laws....)

Rehearsals are going well and we open on Friday! YAY!!! The show will continue throughout the holidays and will close Dec. 31st.

Doing a Christmas show like this always makes me in a sentimental mood. Keep in touch - all of you!
Erica

... loss of life.

The park has a great visitors center, where we started the day with a 30 minute movie on the basics of the civil war and how significant the Gettysburg battle was. They then escorted us to the cyclorama......which we said "what is this all about"?? It was sooooo cool. It was a 377 foot painting that showed a 360 degree view of the battle. It was painted in 1884 ....and recently restored. The detail and ...

The big push continues with another day of cloud watching as some spectacular scenery rolls by. I loved riding up thru WV and MD. Beautiful horse farms, mountains and fall colors kept me from staring too hard at all the dark, ponderous clouds lurking along the hilltops. The temps ranged from 54 to 72 F (briefly). Do not expect to see the 70s again.
But at least we are tucked in and no drops have touched the big fella. Just a frost warning for tonight and chilly temps tomorrow.

... This season's corn had not yet been harvested and the never-ending blanket of cornfields that covers the eastern half of our country was in its glory. The ubiquitous corn cover had actually begun in New Jersey, less than 25 miles from New York City and would continue until the land was too parched to support this crop (along about the Kansas-Colorado border). We had discovered its eastern boundary when we departed Interstate 287 to have a quick lunch of peanut ...

We were on our way to meet Reena's old school friend from back in Singapore. We found ourself driving straight threw Pennsylvania. This is where Ram when to high school.

We made some quick calls and Ram found a high school friend that he hasn't seen or even talked to in 8 years! We stoped only for a couple hours and we had to be on our way....

... are usually located on slight uphill climbs, to make handing out the musettes easier. However, this one was a flat stretch at the bottom of a slight hill, and to make matters worse, the lead group had attacked just beforehand, so the pace was pretty extreme.... However, we went alright, and the adrenalin rush was pretty cool...

... to Friendly's.  We sat at a long table in the back that was up against a big booth and we all ordered sandwiches.  The food was delicious, I love Friendly's!  Dad and Aunt Stacy got free sundae's with their meals and we all wound up sharing them.  By the time we got out of there it was around 10:15.  We usually have dinner at 5:30 so it was definitely a late dinner!  But so what?  We were on vacation! When we were done eating we decided that we wanted to see what stores ...

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Despite the fact that it was the middle of October, there were still plenty of tourists (particularly children) in the battlefield museum, which was our first stop. We went inside to look at the exhibits. The museum does contain some very interesting artifacts, like a shell and the roof rafters it pierced. However, many of these artifacts were in displays that were very outdated. Even the building itself had peeling paint and a very dated feel ...