Visit from Sarah's Parents

In June, Sarah's parents came out to visit us.  This included a trip to the zoo (of course), a meal at Rudy's and a visit to the Oklahoma City Memorial.  (I don't have any pictures from the zoo because Sarah and Lisa went while Wes and I hung out at a Braum's where Wes read and I worked on...

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Gettysburg

While we were in Washington DC, we rented a car for a couple days and drove up to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  We spent a whole day at Gettysburg and I was amazed at how large the battlefield was.  We prepared for our trip to Gettysburg by watching "Gettysburg" on the flight out to Washington...

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Mount Vernon

Similar to how visiting Monticello gave insights into Thomas Jefferson, visiting Mount Vernon gave insights into George Washington as a man.  One of the things that stood out to me was that George Washington was a farmer at heart and that whenever he found better methods of farming, he freely...

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Washington DC

After spending a few days with Ben and Alyse, we took a train from Richmond up to Washington DC.   Once getting to the train station, we decided to walk to our hotel, which was about a mile and a half away.  (We could have taken the metro one stop and then been about 0.7 miles away, but...

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