Middleton s Travelers Heidi Rylan and Julia

We went to the Indianapolis 500 Raceway today, visited the Museum and saw cars out practicing racing. We took video and pictures, if I can get the Video to post you will be able to play it, I tried a few days ago to post video, but it didn’t work. Julia was so sick, she didn’t go into the museum, and then as we were going back to my friends house, she was throwing up in the car, and continued for a couple hours. So much fun on this trip! We pretty much drove the rest of the day, stayed the night in Macomb, IL. -Heidi... read more

Hi All, Well, we have been so tired so please excuse the lateness of the blogs. We went to Palmyra, NY. We began at Hill Cumorah, we climbed up to the top not knowing that you could drive up to see it. The best part was walking down hill through the forest, very beautiful. We then went to the Sacred Grove and the Smith Farm, it was a very quiet and peaceful place to be. We drove into down town Palmyra and when we recognized that we were there, it was noon and the church bells were ringing, we looked up and we were passing through an intersection that had a huge church on each corner, Methodist, Baptist, Lutherian, and Prodiestant (of course, I don’t know how to spell these.) (These may not be the exact ... read more

5-28-10 We gladly left our hotel this morning, the beds were hard, but the hotel had really great free breakfast. We headed to Boston, MA today and visited the Freedom Trail. We started at the Boston Commons, where I accidentally drove through a pedestrian walk way that the police officer said was blocked off, but I drove through, not knowing. He said it was a $50 ticket, but was nice and didn’t give it to me and told Pam to navigate better. I then drove around and found by accident, Beacon Hill, it was so pretty there. Once Pam got the address to Breeds Hill she put it in the Tom Tom, we were off to the Battle of Bunker Hill Site, where they had a miniature Washington Monument. Inside is a statue, I have attached ... read more

Hi All, We spent the day in New York City today. We roasted, the temp was over 90 degrees with high humidity. People were saying that for this time of the year it isn't normal. We went many places, took tons of pictures. We are just posting a few. We did NOT get to go to the Statue of Liberty, the line was hours long just to get through security and we were working on heat exhaustion. So we took the pictures you see of Lady Liberty and continued on our Bus tour of the whole city. For those of you who dont know, New York City is on an island and the whole island has 8.4 million people on it, with their temperments and attitudes. So the heat gave many attitudes, and we all sweated ... read more

Hi, The Hotel is awesome; we got up early and took a taxi to the Holocaust Museum. Pam & Julia stayed in line and Heidi & Rylan walked over to the Washington Monument and stood in line and got tickets to go up around 12:30pm then walked back to the Holocaust Museum where the others were. At 10am we went into the Museum and learned tons, Julia said “Grandma my heart is heavy.” Which completely describes how we all felt; it was very sad what had happened. We then went to the Washington Memorial, took pictures and got in another line. In Washington D.C., every building anyone pretty much goes into has security and a security checkpoint that you get scanned and so does your stuff. The guards get pretty grouchy if you do anything wrong, ... read more