It's taken me a little while to get this blogged. Because of course, when you have a trip planned, win a trip, and have several other major expenses come up, the best thing that can happen is that your computer dies. The desk top is dead and I am now trying to get used to the new lap top. Anyway, now that the lap top is up and running, here are a few pictures.
Here we are at I-Hop on our first morning together.
After breakfast we headed over to the historic section of Philadelphia.
We saw the Liberty Bell.
And this guy in the Visitor's Center.
We explored a cool old grave yard where Ben Franklin and several other Founding Fathers are buried.
Then we visited some of the other buildings in the area.
On day 2 we explored Valley Forge. This was a really cool old chapel.
This is a monument to the only soldier buried at Valley Forge whose grave was actually marked.
Outside of the chapel.
Another cool monument at Valley Forge.
As pretty much everyone now knows, I won a trip to Israel a couple of days before we left for Valley Forge. I knew that I was going to win this trip as soon as I qualified for it. On the morning of the drawing I snapped this picture. You can't really tell from the picture, but the rainbow ends right at my car. As I took this picture I wished for a pot of gold, but if not I would take a trip to Israel.
This is the trail head to Baer Canyon. Some idiot set the area on fire a few days ago. I can't believe they were able to put it out before it spread any farther.
We were hiking up the canyon when I found Shady standing at attention just looking at this little bird. I was so proud of her for not eating it. Unfortunately, I couldn't find it's nest and I'm sure it died or was eaten by something else.
