We started out our morning with Brynna feeling pretty puny. She must've picked up a cold virus on one of our subway treks. She stayed home and rested while the rest of the family attended a chapel service right here at the KOA. It was led by a couple of young men who are part of a summer job program that sends mostly college age kids to different KOAs to lead the kids' activities, take care of some housekeeping and landscape jobs, and lead chapel services. In return, their travel expenses and lodging are paid and they receive a small salary. There were about three families represented on the deck of the campground office where the service was held. It was a come as you are, very relaxed time and it was just what we needed "church" to be for today.
Afterwards, we headed back to the trailer and took Heidi for a little walk. We then ate a small snack, woke up Bryn, and we all hopped in the Yukon to drive the 40 minutes to visit the West Point Visitor Center and Museum. The visitor center was kind of just informational on what it is like to be a student there currently. The museum had a lot of interesting artifacts including displays of many different types of uniforms and weapons over the ages. There were several surprising "trophy" type weapons including weapons that had belonged to Napoleon.
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| Cadets' quarters display |
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| Kinds of engineering and design projects that students have participated in |
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| Moving into the museum |
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| Pistols and sword once belonging to Emperor Napoleon I |
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| Hitler's Presentation pistol |
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| Japanese General Yamashita's Sword |
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| Left is a Persian Bronze Sword from ca. 900 BC! |
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| French Renault tank from WWI |
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US 1916 Dodge Light Passenger Car - This was one of about 5000 delivered
to the Army in Europe during WWI at a cost of $785 each. |
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| 17th Century Chinese Cannon that was captured by the Russians during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 |
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| US Army Civil War Gatling Gun |
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British 12-pounder bronze mortar surrendered by General Burgoyne's British Army after the Battle of Saratoga, 1777.
I'd never seen such a short, stubby little barrel. |
It was so hot and humid outside that when we left the nice cool museum, we couldn't wait to get into the air conditioning of the Yukon. We realized how blessed we are that both the car and the trailer's air conditioning is fully functional. We are very grateful and realize that this part of the trip would not have been very do-able without it.
We drove back in the general direction of the campground, making a detour into Newburgh to visit Orange County Choppers. A few years ago, we used to watch the show when we had cable and wethought it would be fun to take a look at some of the bikes. It was definitely worth the stop. The showroom is a LOT fancier than I expected from what we saw on the show back then. It has a cafe and a 3-lane bowling alley with a large OCC merchandise store and several bikes on display. The cafe smelled temptingly as we were all getting hungry by then, but we moved on.
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| Christmas Bike |
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| NYFD Tribute Bike |
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| Lincoln-Mercury Bike |
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| Green Web Bike |
We needed to hit the Walmart to get a few days' groceries. There was one close by. When we arrived, Bryn asked if she could stay in the car since she was feeling pretty weak and then Spencer had a bit of an attitude so Brock said he'd stay with them in the car with the windows down and so they baked for a bit in the sun while Bri, Sky and I picked out the groceries.
We drove back to campground and got the groceries put away and ate dinner together.
The little boys went to bed and the big kids and Brock and I watched
The Hobbit which we had picked up at the Redbox at Walmart. It was good, but I think I missed a little bit in the middle when my eyes accidentally closed for a little while. ;o)
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