• my son Ethan, age 9, is turning into a bit of a history buff and enjoyed Gettysburg as much, or more, as the trip to Hershey amusement park
• getting the various spots...Little Round Top, Peach Orchard, Wheatfield, Devil's Den, the Angle ....in geographic context with one another. 
  
• the size of the open field that Pickett's men had to cross
• the highwater mark...and how close it was to the stonewall
  

NEVER KNEW THIS BEFORE...

I wonder how many people know about this?
A 36 year old female had an accident several weeks ago and
Totaled her car.

A resident of Kilgore, Texas, she was traveling between
Gladewater & Kilgore.. It was raining, though
not excessively, when her car suddenly began to
hydro-plane and literally flew through the air. She
was not seriously injured but very stunned at the
sudden occurrence!

When she explained to the highway patrolman what
had happened he told her something that every driver
should know - NEVER DRIVE IN THE RAIN WITH
YOUR CRUISE CONTROL ON. She had thought she
was being cautious by setting the cruise control and
maintaining a safe consistent speed in the rain.

But the highway patrolman told her that if the
cruise control is on and your car begins to hydro-plane --
when your tires lose contact with the pavement, your
car will accelerate to a higher rate of speed and you
take off like an airplane. She told the patrolman that
was exactly what had occurred.

The patrolman said this warning should be listed,
on the driver's seat sun-visor - NEVER USE THE
CRUISE CONTROL WHEN THE PAVEMENT
IS WET OR ICY, along with the airbag warning. We
tell our teenagers to set the cruise control and drive a safe
speed - but we don't tell them to use the cruise control
only when the pavement is dry.

The only person the accident victim found, who
knew this (besides the patrolman), was a man who had
had a similar accident, totaled his car and sustained
severe injuries.

NOTE: Some vehicles when the windshield wipers are on, you cannot
set the cruise control. Like the Toyota Sienna Limited XLE is one of them.

The mathematical explanation is that the time it takes for a child to ask the question equals: one, plus the number of activities to do, divided by the number of children in the car squared.

To get the final answer, that figure is then added to the time it took the family to get into the car and set off on their journey.