Here are the pictures of the largest cross in the western hemisphere.
Sunday Oct 19:
On the road again. Left Tucumcari NM at 7am and drove over 400 miles today. Jerry is feeling a tiny bit better. We are now in Winslow AZ which is 36 miles east of Flaggstaff. Jerry is feeling a lot better write now he is in the recreation room watching the Seahawks on Sunday night football. Don't get many channels in the coach.
Monday Oct 20th we will be in Chandler by noon or so. Yeh it has been two months since we left Auburn. Great trip but Barb is ready to get to cleaning house (just kidding). She do miss walking every morning and getting some excercise though. We are anxious to start golfing again also.
Well hope you have enjoyed our two month journey and more postings will be coming once we get settled.
Here we are having dinner and the window by Barb is where we can view the water/fire show.
This is a picture of the water shooting in the air and the fire coming out of a pipe.
Below is where all the pipes have fire coming out of them and the water shooting in the air. It was cool.
This wraps up Branson Missouri and we have had a great time but need to move on. We are anxious to get back to AZ so we can golf and do some other fun things.
So until the next posting bye for now.
This is a picture of what it looked like.
This picture Barb took at one of our look out stops before we entered the lake.
Who would think we would do something crazy like this but it was fun.
In the evening at 7:30 we went to The Shoji Tabuchi Show, a family entertainment show. Very good show.
Jerry wanted his picture taken with The Blues Brothers so here he is sitting between them. It is not the best picture as I had to take it with my cell phone. I did not have my camera with me because we thoutht you couldn't take pictures which is normally the case. But you could during intermission.
As we were traveling through St Louis Jerry said Barb get a picture of the piece arch. Well here Barb is trying to make sure we are on the right freeway because the roads are changing constantly and the lady on the GPS is barking orders and Barb is trying to listen to her and take a picture going 60 miles an hour down the road but it didn't turn out to bad.
This picture is of the capital of West Virginia which is in the town of Charleston.
Barb snapped this picture while we were driving down the road you can see the color of the trees. The trees are just starting to change real deffinate colors. In some areas we were going through mountains so you had a much broader view of the colors. It was nice to get out in more wide open spaces as we have been pretty much been tucked in city areas with lots of trees.
This picture was the first construction and it was the church and the orginal foundation of the original church is on display at the side of the pews.
This is the court room inside you can see Jerry up in front on the end of the top row on the left. He is next to the guy with the white cap on.
This is the court house from the outside. Only a certain number could get in the court room.
This is a piano that Governer Patrick Henry played it was in the Govern's palace. Barb wonders how her grand daughter Gabby would like to take lessons on this.
At 5pm they do the final enactment for the day and it is where the army is fighting to keep the British from taking over the Williamsburg area. The top picture is where the soldiers marched in and there is a cannon off to the right. General Washington and Mr Lafayatte come in support the solders that if they went to battle they would win. In the second picture you will see where they are at war and shooting off their guns and the cannon.
Another great history lesson day.
This is a picture of the capatal we just drove by this building. You notice on the right there is a building where the House of Representative meets and on the left the white building is where the senate meets.
This Thomas Jeffersons memorial Barb took it from accross the patomic river. He stands in the center of this memorial and looks towards the Captial. We got out at this memorial.
This is the Lincoln memorial there is a statue of him sitting looking out toward the Washington National Monument where you see the three openings through the pillars. We got out and climbed up the stairs or took the elevator to the top.
This is the Washington National monument and this is take from the Lincoln memorial standing on the stairs you see in the above picture. Lincoln is looking out at this memorial.
This is a picture of the Washington National Cathedral. This is the 6th largest on the earth. It took 83 years to build it was started in 1907 and finished 1990. This cathedral is operated on
donations only. There are 231 stain glass windows in the cathedral. Ronald Reagans funeral and many other famous people. Billy Graham, Martin Luther King, spoke here. Much more information we had a tour guide so that was very helpful.
This picture is at Alexandria Viarginia where we had dinner. It was located on the water so had a great view and food.
Friday Oct 3rd:
Today we took a motorcoach tour to Baltimore, MD. Part of this city is newer in the historic section because in 1904 80 blocks of the town burned down. From there we went to Fort McHenry another battle ground in the revolutionary war. The on a drive thru Federal Hill area where it overlooks the bay. There are 13 colleges here and much cheaper to live than NY. Our tour guide was from NY and he said he will never go back because it is much more afordable to live in MD. Then we went on to the Harbour and had lunch and enjoyed the shopping on the harbour.
This is a view of the city from Federal Hill.
The above two pictures is of Fort McHenry battle field and hill. Most of us did not even know the history of this but at this sight is where the British was trying to take over the city of Baltimore through the Patapsco River . They got within 2.5 miles from the harbour and we took them on and one the war. Also at this site after we won the battle is where Francis Scott Key wrote THE Star Spangled Banner and where our flag still flew. We watched a short film on the story of this and then toured the army camp here. Where you see the flag flying there was area inside the brick walls where they did a flag raising ceremony. However, some of us had already left the area. The ranger who was waiting for a school to come to show them the ceremoney decided to do the ceremony shortly after we left because it was a hour pass the time it was to be done. Jerry & some of our group was there and got to participate in holding the flag. I felt real bad I did not get a picture but some one else got it so I will get a copy from them. Jerry said it was a awsome deal and also to get to participate. Jerry actually got to help with the bringing the flag down and folding the flag and then the putting the new flag up.
We arrived home at 3:00 pm and now are getting ready for another long day tomorrow.
Each day we think we have seen the top of the day but yesterday was even better. We took a bus tour to WA DC and Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia and then on to Mt Vernon. A 9 hour day and many pictures and memories that you can't imagine you would ever be a part of. We traveled through heavy traffic but finally got to WA DC and drove by some of the government buildings and we were on the back side of the White House.
I shared that in Boston and NY the houses are side by side and were all brick. Well in WA DC the are still side by side but you can see they are painted different colors or the trim on the brick ones are painted different colors. This is how they distinquish their homes in this city.
Then the most touching part of our tour was when we got to see the changing of the guards where the unnamed solders who lost their lives are buried and it is guarded 24 hours. What a awsome ceremony. I am standing at the left hand corner of this picture so I am so close it was awsome. In addition after the changing of the guards we got to watch a ceremony where they honored a family of a loved one and changed the wreath that is put there every day with the one from this family.
We traveled on to Mount Vernon to the home of George and Martha Washington. It was a great tour also. George inherited a small 4 room house from his brother who died and then he built a second floor and a wing on each side and a huge deck across the back that over looked the patomic river.
This is the first tomb that they are buried in on this property to the right of their house and down the hill.
We saw a great short film of him fighting in the french and british war and then when he met Martha who was a widow lost her husband in war and she had two children.
We arrived back to camp about 5:30 & was exhausted.
The top picture is the entrance to the Chapel this picture is from the entrance it is vary large.
We walked to the front and took many pictures of the beautiful stain glass windows and again Tiffiny is the company that designed them.
This is a picture of the students coming to their rooms to prepare for lunch. They are fed three meals a day and must eat at the hall. The whole 4000 are fed in 45 minutes because that is all the time they have to eat. They usually are done in 15 minutes.
This is one picture of the inside but we have a book with all the beautiful things in it. Tiffiny did stain glass windows in this church also. Tiffiny has done most all the stain glass windows in all the buildings we have been in. 
This picture is The Betsey Ross house and the flags on the fence is the first flags made with 13 stars. George Washington asked her to design and make the first US Flag.
We walked the National Constitution Center which contains all the buildings that was where our first government held office before they moved it to Washington DC.
This is a picture called Congress Hall where the congress met we sat in benches on the side of this room and listened to a speech from a National Park Ranger. Also there was a area where the senate met.
We went into Carpenters Hall and this building was where delegates from 13 states met and put together the Declaration of Independence in 1776. The document was not actually signed tell 8/2/1800. We sat in the actual buildings and a different National Park Ranger gave a documentary of the details on this history.
This is the Liberty Bell that is also located in this area. We walked this whole area when we toured all these historical areas. This is located in Independence Hall.
