Home and Dentist Appointments

Well, after eleven days my family has traversed back home. The trip was fun, lengthy, but fun. I loved seeing York, Pennsylvania (Bryant's home for six months), as well as the surrounding area. When we visited Gettysburg it was a little warm to get out and walk around much, but we did the audio driving tour and that was great fun. The poor little man giving the tour sounded... kind of like Barney Fife when he recited the Preamble. Every time a new track came on the family mercilessly made fun of him. Despite this I learned some extremely interesting facts about Gettysburg and realized that radio communication is really helpful in battle. Because they had none in the Civil War. And things got messed up. It would have helped to have had radios. Such as the battalion of North Carolinians who veered too far to the left and got blown up by Union soldiers. If their commander had had a radio he could have told them, 'Hey guys, you're going a little too far left. Fix that plz, k thnx.'

Anyway, there are my thoughts on Gettysburg. Also, Pennsylvania towns really like round-abouts. Probably so they can make a town square and build nifty statues in the middle. But still, almost all the towns we passed through on the way to Gettysburg had round-abouts. I found it interesting. You will probably not.

Our drive through the mountains of North Carolina was just beautiful. It made you feel blessed to be alive. After this drive we camped in Alabama (I say camped, but we really just stayed in a cabin) and watched the World Cup final. I was rooting for the Netherlands, but I was kind of okay with Spain winning because of their amazingly attractive team. Yes I am that shallow.

Now that we are home, my days have been spent going to the dentist and getting everything taken care of that needs to be taken care of. I had two cavities filled today, next week I'm having some more filled and seeing an oral surgeon about getting my wisdom teeth removed. Those smart little teeth will have to be taken out before I go back to school, so... joy. Mom had to see the dentist this week too, so I kinda felt like we lived there the past couple of days. I don't mind too much since Dr. Tatum is an awesome-blossom, extra awesome, but I don't like getting shots in my mouth and having a constant weird taste in my mouth because of the fillings. *sigh*

Bryant's rolling on in to town tonight, he should be here anytime. He took a couple of extra days on the road to photograph and visit his friend Timothy at Auburn. I'm looking forward to having him home, it's nice to not be the only child in the house.

OH! I almost forgot. I bought Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends the other day and received it in the mail when I got back from my journey. It's a book written by two of the real guys in the company Band of Brothers was based on. I'm almost done reading it. It has been a wonderfully entertaining read, mostly because the two guys are funny little men from South Philly and talk as such.

This post has been more of a 'here's what's been going on in my life' rather than a 'here's some interesting thoughts of mine' but oh well. I don't really have any deep and profound thoughts today, just updates. Maybe next time I'll have something better.

Toodles!