On Saturday, the interns here in the Washington Seminar group got to go on another outing, this time to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (note: pronunciation is like get-iss-berg; it's a soft "s" and a short "i" sound; Wikipedia has a
nice pronunciation you can listen to). We first went to the Visitor's Center to view the movie and cyclorama--really cool! It is one painting, completed in less than a year, that was designed so that when you stand in the center of this 360* painting, it's like you're looking out at the battlefield and surrounding area. We also had two hours to walk through the museum on the Gettysburg battle that is housed at the visitor's center.
After eating our fill at the General Pickett's all-you-can-eat buffet, we went on a bus tour of the Gettysburg battlegrounds. It is really huge and it was neat to be able to go through all of it in a matter of hours, with a competent tour guide giving us info about the battle on the way.
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