Harper's Ferry, WV

Washington DC has a ton of great stuff to see and do (a lot of it being free!) and we are usually in the area once a year but we don't always put forth an effort to go and do stuff. This year we decided we were going to do at least one thing we've never done and it turned out to be Harper's Ferry, WV. It's only about an hour outside of the DC area (that is always dependent on traffic). The drive up was pretty neat, we drove through a couple of small towns and when I could get internet access on my phone, I looked up the history of the towns and read it aloud to Paul (the kids were more interested in pestering each other in the back seat).




It really was the perfect day to get out and go. The weather was in the 80's, not humid at all. Just fabulous. We walked up and down the streets and poked our head in a few of the shops. Paul spotted a wooden toy car he thought Tanner might like but it turned out to be "a piece of art" priced at $35. Uh, sorry Tanner.

We had great views of the two rivers, the Potomac and the Shenendoah.

We even walked across the bridge to the Appalachian Trail. On the left side of the fence is a rail road track. I made the remark of how intense it would be if a train came by while we were walking the bridge. Not 2 minutes later you hear the sound of a train horn coming towards us. Thankfully it was on another set of tracks a few hundred feet away from the bridge, I think the kids would've freaked out for sure if it'd been right next to us.

I can now say I've been on the Appalachain Trail. Not sure if I'd call it hiking since we only walked about 300 feet of it or so.

The kids were surprisingly well behaved while we were there. We stopped by a little place to eat lunch. A man we sat next to at lunch told us he served in the Army with a man from Magnolia, MS which just so happens to be where Paul is building a house right now.

Before we left we decided to get some ice cream. While Tanner and I enjoyed our cones they were so big we couldn't finish them. Lana on the other hand wouldn't let us leave until she polished off her entire cup. She literally licked it clean. The girl can eat some icecream!