Philadelphia, Gettysburg, Braves Game, and a whole lot more.

This semester has been great so far. Megan is really enjoying her job at GAP and she is doing great. She has earned the respect of her supervisors and everyone there really likes her. She has also opened 3 GAP cards in her first week :) Nice job sweetie!

I am home sick right now and i have nothing better to do so i thought i would catch y'all up on life. We went to Philadelphia and Valley Forge last weekend. It was awesome! It was really cool to see the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. For those who don't know what Independence Hall is, it is were the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were both created and signed. It was really cool to be in the very room were the founding fathers signed those documents. Not everything in the room was original but the chair up front was the very chair that President George Washington sat in.



Also, Megan and I have never had a Philly cheese steak. I've heard the talk about them and how good they are but i never really thought they could be that good. Well, i'm here to tell you that they are! We went to Gino's and it was so good. I believe that Gino's was featured on the Food Network once before. It was so delicious. Also on the way home from Philadelphia we watch National Treasure, and it was cool to see that we have pretty much been to every location in that movie.



The next trip we took was to Gettysburg, PA. and Harper's Ferry, WV. Unfortunately Megan couldn't come because she had to work. Gettysburg is a really interesting place to visit. Really, its nothing but fields and trees, but it makes you think a lot about what happened there. We had a great tour guide and it was great to learn more about the war there and how it changed our nation forever. I kept looking off into a field or into the trees and imagining the same place around 146 years ago. It is crazy to think that on that very ground, Americans fought against Americans and we killed tens of thousands of our own men in 3 days. OK, enough of the history lesson, the point is, it was a wonderful experience.










We also had the chance to go to a Brave's game the other night with our good friends Reece and Courtney Semanek. They are also here for an internship, and they are our neighbors. The Nationals have a pretty cool stadium, but its nothing like good ol' Turner Field in Atlanta. The Braves won and we had a good time.




My parents came out to visit us a few weeks ago and it was great to have them here. We had so much fun and probably saw more sites in 3 days than a normal person could see in a week! We felt like experienced tour guides and we pretty much walked ourselves to death! We were really tired but it was worth every single minute! Here is a list of a FEW things we did and saw: Washington monument, Lincoln memorial, WWI memorial, WWII memorial, Vietnam War memorial, Korean War memorial, The White House, Library of Congress, U.S. Capitol building, National Archives, Smithsonian Museums: Air and Space Museum, American History Museum, Natural History Museum, National Zoo, National Botanical Gardens, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, John F. Kennedy’s grave site, Arlington National Cemetery, Pentagon Memorial.





My internship is going well. I am interning with the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. My co-workers are fantastic and i love going to work with them. If anybody is interested in what we do please feel free to visit our website http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/pcpid.