Steve and Jeff were good friends while Jeff lived in California. He and Stacy were married a few months before us. We had kids all around the same time. We continue to stay close despite the 2,600 miles that lie between us. And, sweet friends as they are, when they came to the North East to visit Steve's family in Maine, they drove south to see us, too. We had a great time together. If you follow both the Perkins' blog and ours, Steve will most likely write a much more clever and funny post about it all, but here's mine, none the less.
We wanted to show off Harrisburg a bit, so we did one day of our standard tour when out of town guests come to stay with us. First we took them to the capital building in town. We had a good time touring without an official tour guide. The kids held up well since they knew that the next stop was Hershey Chocolate World.
The next day, we went to Gettysburg. We had a good time hiking around Little Round Top. Remember the bad feelings I was having as I hiked up the Corolla Lighthouse with my 3 children? Those same feelings were felt (to a slightly lesser extent) when I, without fore site, took all 5 of the kids up to the top of a memorial tower on my own. Stacy did eventually join me (that's the picture below) and she helped with the trek back down the twisting staircase. After that, everyone climbed around Devil's Den and then we picniced there. We then saw the site of Lincoln's Address.
Interesting Fact of the Day: Jeff's forefather, General James T. Pettigrew, who was a Confederate, helped lead Pickett's Charge.
We're glad for the Perkins friendship and pray that it will continue for many more years. Thanks for coming to visit us!
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