Monday, October 10, 2022- Gettysburg to Home

     We reluctantly got up this morning and asked what else we wanted to do.  Abby wanted to stay in the room and watch Mickey Mouse Funhouse so we let her do that and brought breakfast back to the room.  After the car was packed up, Scott wanted to go to the 64th New York monument to play a song and get a video.  He and Brian S. did quite a few recordings like that when they visited in 2018.  Scott had wanted to do something at the 64th NY monument back then too, but didn't really have the right song.  He thought he had a good one for this morning and had lugged the guitar and music stand all the way to Gettysburg in case he got the chance to.

     Before we even entered the park we saw the top of a tree fall.  A guy was up in a "cherry picker bucket" taking a tree down, on private land next to the park, we think.  When we entered the park, we once again saw roadblocks on the usual route that we would have taken up to Little Round Top's summit.  We drove past that through Devil's Den and were ready to make the left-hand turn onto Brooke Avenue, but there were roadblocks there too.  We didn't remember them being there when we drove past it on Saturday.  We wouldn't be able to get to the 64th New York monument today.  We stopped briefly in the Wheatfield, and sure enough, we could hear chainsaws doing work "rehabilitating" what seemed to be the Rose Woods area.  

    Gettysburg seemed to be sending us a message, so we set the phone's GPS for home and started on our way.  Julie had come in on Saturday on 15, and she likes taking other routes home.  We ended up going over several ridges of mountains in southeastern Pennsylvania that we don't think we have been over before.  We eventually made it to Phillipsburg and things started to look a little more familiar, on the route we used to take home all the time from Virginia.   We made it to 80 and Julie stopped at the exit that she remembered had all the restaurants.  We ate a Burger King because it actually still had a play area and we hoped Abby would be able to play there.  It was a little big for her, though, and she ended up getting caught in it a few times and Julie had to get help from other children to get her out (remembering when similar things happened at Peppa Pig World of Play in Chicago).  We went to the nearby Lowes so Scott could use the restroom there.  We bought a doorknob for the new downstairs door, and as we were cashing out, Abby saw a display of toy cars.  We told her she could get one, and she eventually chose a red sports car.  While Julie was paying, Abby pushed the car across the floor and it zipped underneath a palette that was stacked high with jugs of water.  Abby had to pick different car.  

     The rest of the way home was pretty uneventful.  We got to our house at about 4:30 and had our traditional welcome home dinner of Mighty's.  We had picked up some CoreLife for Emma.  

      Anyway, a bad day in Gettysburg* is still better than a good day at school.

* As long as it's not 1863, of course.