Winter at Valley Forge

...And the next winter, the continental army was at...

But before we get to that...

We woke up in this beautiful place. Home for the weekend. 

Jo and I drove into town to this historic building - the post office. It was fancy and had a General Delivery window!

The postal service has a way for people like us to get mail. It's super old school. We haven't really needed it until now, but since we want to vote, we needed to get our ballots. My dad mailed them to us by general delivery. You can have mail sent to your name at "General Delivery" in "Anytown", USA. Then you just have to show ID to pick it up at the post office.  Usually, you stand in the regular line. But here in the olden days post office, there's a special window just for us! Ring bell for service and voila, now we get to vote! Thanks Dad!

Off to Valley Forge!

They have a great visitor center and movie. Then you can head out to see all the different parts of the encampment in person. 

Soldiers built themselves these "huts". It's said there were over 1000 of these and each took about 80 trees to construct the whole cabin and all its furnishings for 8-12 men to sleep. 

The kids played army all day. 

This was General Washington's headquarters. He was here!

We are so blessed to have this opportunity to better understand our past so we can be wiser stewards of our future. So thankful that the Lord has afforded us this opportunity!