[hidepost]We spent the evening at Gettysburg, one of my most favorite places to visit.  My Father in Law graciously took us on a tour of the Battlefield. We first visited the new Gettysburg Visitors Center.  It is huge and beautiful.  The interactivity while walking through the museum exhibits is awesome.  Sadly we didn't have enough time to go through all of them and give them the proper amount of time. They now have it broken down into a time line.  It talks about the causes of the Civil War, why each side was fighting and what they were fighting for, etc.  It then walks you through several points of the war and then you go through the sections that talk about each day of the war. There are seperete sections for each day and they have a presentation for each day that describes the actions of each day.  There are tons of smaller exhibits and many have large touchscreen flat panel monitors where the kids can have some interaction with the exhibit. For example, my son (who plays the trumpet) was playing a "game" that played various pieces of Military Bugle calls from the Civil War and he had to match them up to the scenario that was visually and verbally presented to him on the screen. Some of my other children were next to him viewing the various parts of a soldiers uniform and what he would have carried on his person. I was very impressed with what we saw there.  Not only from a historical aspect but from a technology point of view.  it just so happens that I've been somewhat looking into the same type of flat panel touchscreen monitors for a project that I'm currently working on. As the center was closing I ran into the bookstore and spent my entire life savings in there.  I'm kidding, I only had to sell half of my kids.  Ok, now I'm really kidding.  I bought one book.  It is another one written by General Chamberlain and is about his experience at Gettysburg.  I'm excited to read it. Afterwards is when we toured the battlefield.  We drove along the tree line where the Confederates formed to make their charge (better known as Pickett's Charge) on the last day of the battle.  We drove past the Lutheran Seminary that was used during the battle. We visited Little Round Top, one of my personal favorites, and saw Devils Den.  My Father in Law told us stories that I had never heard before. Finally we visited the spot where the battle began a few miles outside of town. I wish that I had the time to spend all day there, or even a couple of days there, but it's not to happen on this trip.  Maybe next time. On our way home we stopped and got Ice Cream, though it was also a Nathan's Hot Dog stand and I almost bought a hot dog instead of an Ice Cream.  Though I think that we're probably going to go back there next week, because everyone saw something else that they wanted to try. [/hidepost]