Yay for us -- It's Biker Week in Gettysburg

Okay, before I start on Gettysburg College, let me just say that we are in possibly the noisiest city in all of America! It's Biker Week here -- Harleys abound! I called the front desk and asked them approximately how many motorcyles are in town. I was guessing 1,000 maybe even as high as 2,000 -- NOOOOO -- 15,000! Unfortunately for us, our hotel window faces the main street they drive down ~ 15,000 motorcyles driving by my window at night. Oh well, sleep is overrated anyway. We're leaving tomorrow and are bummed because we're going to miss the Tattoo Contest on Friday, not to mention the band Molly Hatchett, the Burn Out Pit contest, "Midget" wrestling (not my verbage) and the Parade of Chrome. **sigh** Timing is everything.

Gettysburg College...I am going to sound like a broken record, but it's beautiful, has fantastic first year seminars, amazing fraternity houses (better than ol' Jed Clampett's digs!), etc. Austin loves all of these schools. I think one of the determining factors for him will be the actual student body. He needs to go to schools where he's applied and has been accepted to, then visit them one last time while they're in session. He did say he loved the openness of Gettysburg. There is a lot of green grass between buildings and a lot of open space. What do you expect when you have battlefields all around you? He actually likes the history of the buildings -- he told me he is usually "campus neutral" but he was actually liking the buildings.

The town of Gettysburg is a lot bigger than you would think. There are a TON of tourists here--who knew it was such a vacation destination? (Probably everyone but me!) It looks like there are a lot of cute little shops along all of the streets...if you like pottery from around the world or civil war relics. Nonetheless, there is a nice feel to the place. And you can't beat the history, that's for sure.

Tomorrow we drive to Baltimore and catch a plane to New Orleans, where it is currently 97 degrees and probably 100% humidity. This should be interesting -- I can tolerate the heat (come on, I'm a Val! Valley Girl for those of you not familiar with the LA lingo) but I'm not so sure my little friend here can. We shall see.