On September 11th, we left the campground in Trenton NJ and drove 3-1/2 hours to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This was the beginning of our west bound detour to get to Great Lakes IL for Thomas’ graduation from Navy Basic Training. It was still over a week away but it felt good to know we were heading to see him. In Harrisburg we went straight to set up camp because it had been raining hard all day. Our campground was only 4 miles from downtown anyway. It finally let up some so we went to tour the capitol. We absolutely loved this capitol. It was so beautiful. We thought it was the best one so far. It was so grand and colorful. We suggest you take a tour of the capitol at:
http://www.pacapitol.com/CapitolTour/Splashpage/intro.htm.
After we took the tour, which we really enjoyed, we tried to get a picture of us all on the Grand Staircase. One of the legislators (he was from Philadelphia) came over to us and offered to take our picture on the amazing staircase. He took our picture then talked to us about how the legislature had just within the hour passed the State Budget 90 days late and the last state to do so. We asked him what the Governor was going to do with it and he laughed and said the Governor was going to veto it. He was very friendly and seemed to enjoy hearing about our trip. It was still raining when we left and we still needed to take our picture in front of the capitol. You can see our umbrellas as we took it in the rain. On the 12th we didn’t go anywhere. It was still raining pretty hard and it was Saturday so Kevin and Andrew wanted to stay in and watch college football. It also gave Kathleen a chance to go get more grocery’s and to shop for some clothes for the upcoming graduation and the wedding in Atlanta we were going to on the 26th. We did enjoy our time in Harrisburg in spite of the rain.
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