Pittsburgh trip

Here are a few memorable moments from the "educational" part of our trip (in other words NOT the baseball game). In one picture we are standing on the remains of Fort Duquesne, the original French Fort at the Forks of the Ohio, where Pittbsurgh now stands. The really funny thing about this picture is that we marched in there the night that they were setting up for the Steelers' pep rally. We doggedly followed the historical markers, around the old block house from Fort Pitt and the reconstructed walls. We adroitly dodged men unloading port-a-potties and golf carts full of water bottles. About the time we had finished our historical tour we were converged on by several security guards, frantic to figure out how a family of eight, including a toddler in a stroller and Jeff in his neon-yellow shirt had managed to avoid their secure, closed-to-the-public perimeter. It turns out that in following the historical markers we had neatly avoided the main thoroughfares which were clearly marked as closed to the public and swarming with security personnel. They sheepishly escorted us out, making Fort Duquesne much more memorable than it would have otherwise been.

Our next stop was Fort Ligonier, to the south and west of Pittsburgh, along some nauseau inducing roads. Here you can visit a reconstruction of the fort the British used a staging ground for the eventual successful taking of Fort Duquesne. As it turns out our experience was a little too authentic because at the very back of the fort it is clearly stated that you are not to climb on the stockades. At the front there was no sign...

I think the moral of the story is that the most memorable moments in homeschooling seem to come when we are inadvertenly breaking the law...