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Gettysburg

July 11, 2010 by kim.

Chris and I were visiting his family in Fredrick, MD over the 4th of July, and we decided to take a side trip to Gettysburg, PA. I had never been to Gettysburg before and this was a fantastic time to go, since the battle took place from July 1-3 in 1863 and how neat to be in such a historic spot right around the time it happened all those years ago and it was RIGHT THERE, so we went.

We opted to do an audio tour instead of walking around to different battle sites, only because it was in the upper 90s and we thought it would be a shame to see one monument and get heatstroke, thus putting a damper on the whole vacation. We ended up buying a CD from what we thought was the official visitors center, only to find out at the end of the tour that we had entered Gettysburg from a back way and missed the MAIN visitors center which probably had an audio tour CD that didn’t sound like it was from the early 50s. It almost sounded like one of those filmstrips from grade school minus the beep to tell you to change to the next slide. Instead we would hear, “drive left past the stop sign and continue on to the next monument. You should be driving at 15 miles per hour so that what I say matches up with what you see. If you haven’t gotten there yet, turn me off, and turn me on again when you arrive. Then, pull over to the side, and I will tell you more about this monument.”

Weird.

We stopped at many monuments and took many pictures, but we moved quickly so we wouldn’t melt. Then, we came upon Longstreet Tower, named after General James Longstreet. Naturally, we wanted to climb this behemoth, so we tore ourselves from the air conditioned car and began our ascent.

After the first set of stairs, I was already winded. I couldn’t believe it! All the walking I do and one set of stairs almost does me in? Well, I wasn’t going to let that happen. I was determined to get to the top, and get to the top, I did. All 120 steps. Then I sat down for a while to catch my breath. When I finally recovered, I took a couple of pictures.

This is the East View:

Isn’t it pretty?

This is the South View:

Well, the South View sign, anyway, and the parking lot, of course.

Here is a view looking down:

Both interesting and a bit freaky, no?

Finally, the tower itself:

Tall, isn’t it?

What – did you really think I was going to show you monuments and things of that sort? I’m showing you things that people don’t get to see much of. Parking lots, signs, large towers …

Okay, okay. You win. Here’s a monument that I found rather interesting:

No political statements here – I just like the statue.

Isn’t history fun?

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April Holidays

March 31, 2010 by kim.

This is it! The final installment of weird and/or unusual holidays!

MONTH
National Pecan Month -
http://www.ilovepecans.org/pecanmonth.html

Stress Awareness Month - http://www.speakersfornurses.com/planning/Stress.htm

WEEK
April 18-24 – Sky Awareness Week –
http://www.weatherworks.com/events/skyawareness/main.html

DAYS
April 3 – Happy Tweed Day – http://www.hartford.com/event-detail.php?id=582

April 5 (First Monday after Easter) – Dyngus Day – http://www.dyngusdaybuffalo.com/

April 5 – National Deep Dish Pizza Day –
http://www.pizzamarketplace.com/article.php?na=1&id=17809

April 11 – Barbershop Quartet Day – http://www.hartford.com/event-detail.php?id=598

April 15 – That Sucks Day – http://www.thatsucks.net/

April 15 (3rd Thursday) – National High Five Day –
http://www.nationalhighfiveday.com/featured/the-origin-of-the-high-five/

April 17 – Record Store Day – http://www.recordstoreday.com/CustomPage/614

April 25 – Pet Parent’s Day – http://www.petparentsday.com/

Whew!

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March Holidays

March 1, 2010 by kim.

MONTH
National Craft Month - http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_journal/workshop/4307857.html

National Peanut Month - http://www.peanutbutterlovers.com/loversmonth/index.html

WEEK
National Bubble Week - March 20-26 (2009) - http://bubbleblowers.com/bub-week.html

DAYS
March 9 - Panic Day - http://www.imgag.com/product/full/ap/3032689/

March 14 - National Potato Chip Day - http://bmchips.com/national-potato-chip-day.aspx

March 14 - National Pi Day - http://www.piday.org/

March 23 - Near Miss Day - http://www.goatview.com/march23.htm

March 27 - National “Joe” Day -
http://www.ehow.com/how_2125970_celebrate-national-joe-day.html

March 31 - Bunsen Burner Day - http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-bunsen-burner-day.htm

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February Holidays

January 30, 2010 by kim.

MONTH

National Cherry Month -
http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/february-is-national-cherry-month/

National Grapefruit Month -
http://www.texascooking.com/features/feb2003nationalgrapefruitmonth.htm

DAYS

February 20 - Hoodie-Hoo Day -
http://www.wellcat.com/february/northern_hemisphere_hoodie.htm

February 22 - World Thinking Day -
http://www.girlscouts.org/who_we_are/global/world_thinking_day/

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January Holidays

December 31, 2009 by kim.

MONTH
National Hobby Month - http://www.ehow.com/how_2020108_national-hobby-month.html

National Hot Tea Month -
http://www.teasetc.com/tea/article.asp?ID=9&Name=National+Hot+Tea+Month

DAYS
January 5 - National Bird Day - http://www.nationalbirdday.com/

January 6 - Cuddle Up Day - http://www.ehow.com/how_2172436_celebrate-cuddle-up-day.html

January 14 - National Dress Up Your Pet Day -
http://www.petstyle.com/news/general/celebrate-national-dress-your-pet-day

January 18 - Winnie the Pooh Day - http://www.wikihow.com/Celebrate-Winnie-the-Pooh-Day

January 20 - Penguin Awareness Day - http://www.ehow.com/how_2020195_penguin-awareness-day.html

January 21 - Squirrel Appreciation Day -
http://www.outdoorpressroom.com/outdoorpressroom/2009/01/love-a-bushytail-its-squirrel-appreciation-day.html

January 28 - National Kazoo Day - http://www.kazoos.com/nationalkazooday.htm

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Happy Holidays!

December 25, 2009 by kim.

Seasons Greetings from us!

Here is a stop motion video that Chris created using our Christmas Village and his 76-year-old Nativity scene that belonged to his grandparents when they first got married:

And here is a video that Chris put together (in about an hour) of a festive fire truck that drove up and down the streets of Fort Lee, NJ on Christmas Eve:

Happy Holidays!

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The Tree

December 4, 2009 by kim.

I was lucky enough to have been working at Rockefeller Plaza for the past few weeks (oh yes – the same building that is in ‘30 Rock’ on T.V.), and thus able to document the preparation/erection of the huge Christmas tree for the tree lighting that you ALSO see on T.V. (how cool!):

The tree is under all of this scaffolding:

This is the star for the top:

Crane putting the star on top:

Tree with star:

Taking down the scaffolding:

Tree before the lighting:

We were going to go to the tree lighting on Wednesday night, but we didn’t really want to fight the crowd and then try to make it back to Jersey so we opted to stay home.

I did get to take a couple pictures the following day and night, though.

Tree with lights on during the day:

Tree with lights at night:

Merry Christmas!

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Christmas time is here …

November 30, 2009 by kim.

We decorated the house the other day, and Chris took some interesting pictures which I will share with you now.

Our Tree:

Ornaments – my parents give me one every year!

Piano man and his back-up singers

Stockings all hung by the Victrola with care:

Christmas Village:

Nativity that has been in Chris’s family since his mom was a small child:

(We call it the Christmas pageant as it’s set up in front of the theatre.)