So a quick update on the blanket. RIP. =( I had to pull it apart. I found out that I had somehow added 3 extra stitches from the time I started row one to the time I did row 30. It wasn't pleasent. BUT, I talked with my mom and she and I both agreed that now that I have had lots of practice with the basic double crochet, I can try a blanket that has some variation in the stitches. So I chose one with a shell pattern. Now the hard part is figuring out the gauge. I'm still kinda stuck on that, so I hope to figure it out while watching some Sunday night football. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
On a better note, R and I spent the day yesterday at Hershey Park with his roommate and girlfriend. That was a good time. The weather was great! Nice and cool with no clouds in the sky. We made it to the park around lunch time and managed to get two roller coasters done before an hour was up. After that we walked a lot. I mean a LOT. The is one park that has hills all over it. That made it easier to eat all the gross, greasy park food. We just walked it off. C and I managed to make it through one last roller coaster. It was called .... well I don't remember what it was called but you sat down in the car with an over the shoulder harness. It wasn't a wooden roller coaster. It then dragged you up a huge hill and dropped you, sending you through the station and out the other side, through a couple of loops and twists and then pulled up a huge hill on the other side. So now we were backwards. It then dropped you down the hill and back through all the loops and twists and back to the station. It was just like 6 Flags Two-Face except you were all facing the same way and the track is underneath you, not suspending you. K and R went on one last roller coaster while C and I went shopping for some T-shirts and other goodies. We stayed at a hotel in Harrisburg and went to eat dinner in a firehouse that had been coverted. I didn't get any pictures, but the beer tap at the bar was an old fire hydrant. The whole place was pretty cool. The food was fantastic!!!! Even the price was good. We then tried the heated pool. It wasn't heated. It was inside a room that was heated, but the pool was too cold to swim in. I would have liked to get a chance to swim in it, because there was 2 walls of portholes at the bottom of the pool. They looked through to the hotel bar.
Today we went to visit the National Civil War Museum. That was pretty cool. They had some great displays and a ton of information. If you wanted to spend the whole time reading the walls and displays you could. I just looked at the pictures. We picked a good weekend to go. It was the last weekend of the season they had anything going on. Today they had the 44th Mississippi doing a live camp weekend thing. Complete with shooting demo. We learned the history of the outfit. They started the war with over 100 men. They ended with 9. One cool thing that was done in the Civil War was that when a unit lost men, they didn't add replacements. As casulties rose, the unit would get smaller and smaller until it was integrated into a bigger unit. Also, the units were geographically based so the men from the same town all fought together. This has all changed now. Replacements are added to a unit and men from all over fight together in the same unit.
I ended up with a puzzle from the gift shop. Its a scene from a ballroom. I'm excited to start putting it together.
Well it's time for football. Everyone enjoy the cool weather!
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