Valley Forge

Around noon on Wednesday, June 25, we left Williamsport for the eastern side of Pennsylvania.  That afternoon we toured Valley Forge.  We followed the cell phone tour through the park.  It was really neat and FREE! Valley Forge National Historical Park is nationally significant as the site of the 1777-78 winter encampment of the Continental Army under General George Washington. No battle actually took place here.

I don't think Chase wanted to pose as George in this little tiny figurine!

Carys likes to pose everywhere!

 
Landon is always the one to read all the information.

 
The above pictures are the United States National Memorial Arch, erected to commemorate the arrival of General George Washington and his Continental Army into Valley Forge. It is a simplified version of the Triumphal Arch of Titus in Rome (A.D. 81) which marked the capture of Jerusalem by Emperor Titus in A.D. 70.

I thought it was neat that the names of all the main generals are listed inside the arch.

This is the carillon of the Washington Memorial Chapel which is still an active Episcopal church today.

 I wanted to get more pictures of the church, but the battery on my camera died!  We headed to our hotel (free with my Hilton Honors points!) and then to the King of Prussia mall for dinner.  It's the second largest mall in the U.S.  We could never see it all, but we enjoyed a couple of hours there anyway.