We left Richard and Christiane this morning early. We had a wonderful visit with them and were sad to leave, but they had stuff to do and we had places to visit on the way back to Houston. We drove To Gettysburg and spent the whole day there. It was very interesting. The battle of Gettysburg was really the turning point in the American Civil War (or the War of Northern Agression, as we know it in Texas). There are thousands of Yankee memorials all over the battlefield. As far as Southern memorials are concerned, there aren't very many. We lost, remember. Here we are at the Texas memorial. There were only three regiments from Texas involved in tha battle. The Texans were whipped pretty good on the southern (right) flank of Picket's charge on the last day of the battle. This was the deepest penetration of Confederate forces into the North.

Ginny and I are working on our plan to return back to Houston. We have nothing to hurry back for, so we might just dawdle along the way and see things. We are into the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, so we might just hang around here and visit all the sights we can. Don't you just love it when every day is Saturday?