20 October 2007

Harper's Ferry

Chris was away in West Virginia at a leadership training retreat all last week. We reunited in Harper's Ferry on Friday for some quality family time, including two of Joshua's favorite pasttimes: railroading and throwing rocks into the river. We were rewarded with at least 5 freight trains crossing bridges, going in and coming out of tunnels, pulling right up next to us and stopping for several hours, and even an Amtrak train stopping at the station. The rock-throwing wasn't quite as good because the bigger rocks were all up the bank out of reach, but we had fun looking at all the little minnows in the shallows.


Here we are waiting for Chris to arrive at our rendezvous point. (For the first time all week, his session went late, and he arrived nearly an hour later than planned.) Fittingly called "The Point," although you can't really tell from this picture, this spot overlooks the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers and three states: MD, WV, and VA. Below are the results of our impromptu fall photo shoot:






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