Used the bikes to travel around a variety of locations in the park where the battle took place over 3 days. It's a little mind numbing to think of the death and destruction that happened here. Learned that several thousand men were killed within 1 hour. But it did become the turning point in the war. It's hard to not get emotional knowing what happened here.
Mary and I caught up with Abe again. Also visited the hotel he stayed in where he finalized his famous address (Four score and seven years ago....) the night before he spoke at the cemetery dedication.
We actually did learn something about tasting chocolate, let it melt in your mouth versus just chowing down. It took numerous samples to verify the technique in order to earn our degrees. A masters!
Now, it is on to Maine for that other essential food....lobster.
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