Our Families Favorite National Historic Sites

You can’t really rank any church or US historical sites, because all of it was amazing!  But since most people don’t have 47 days we thought we’d have our kids rank what they would say were the sites that were a must see.  Our kids were told if they could only visit 3 of the church sites we went to, what would they choose.  So here their choices….some of them surprised me a little…

Jawbreaker (male teenager)
1^st Washington DC,
2^nd Gettysburg,
3^rd Second Manassas Battle Reenactment or Philadelphia

Spitz (male teenager)
1^st Harpers Ferry
2^nd Second Manassas Battle Reenactment
3^rd Nationals Game

Warhead (male teenager)
1^st Second Manassas Battle Reenactment
2^nd Spy Museum
3^rd Hershey Park

Bazooka (male pre-teen)
1^st Second Manassas Battle Reenactment
2^nd Smithsonian Natural History Museum
3^rd Hershey Park

Starburst (female 7yrs old)
1^st Hershey Park
2^nd Mount Rushmore
3^rd Grants Farm

Fireball (male 6 yrs old)
1st Atlantis Water Park
2^nd Grants Farm
3^rd Hershey Park

Mr. S (adult male)
1^st Second Manassas Battle Reenactment
2^nd Baseball Games
3^rd Washington DC

Mrs. S (adult female)
1^st Gettysburg
2^nd Second Manassas Battle Reenactment
3^rd Philadelphia or Washington DC

Our favorite experience in WashingtonDC
Jawbreaker: Can’t choose, loved it all
Spitz: American History Museum, Spy Museum, Nationals Game
Bazooka: Natural History Museum, and the Nationals Game
Warhead: Spy Museum, Arlington and Chick-fil-A
Starburst: Spy Museum and the White House
Fireball: Seeing my cousin Daniel
Mr. S: Washington DC Temple and the Nationals Game
Mrs. S: Being with cousins, Washington DC Temple, Mount Vernon, and Holocaust Museum

Our favorite Civil War battle experiences:
Hands down the battle reenactment was EVERYONE’S favorite.  No one even had to blink to say that.  But we will rate what everyone thought about the battle fields we visited, the little kids can’t remember anything past today, they just keep telling us how phenomenal the battles have been the last two days.
Jawbreaker: All of them
Spitz: Gettysburg and Harpers Ferry
Warhead: Gettysburg
Bazooka: Antietam
Mr. S: Gettysburg
Mrs. S: Gettysburg and Manassas

Favorite thing we did Philadelphia:
Jawbreaker:  Independence Hall
Spitz:  City Tavern and Liberty Bell
Warhead:  City Tavern (restaurant)
Bazooka:  City Tavern and Military Museum
Starburst:  Independence Visitors Center and the collectors cards
Fireball:  City Tavern
Mr. and Mrs. S: Independence Hall

Our favorite St Louis experiences:
Jawbreaker: Cardinal’s Game
Spitz:  Cardinal’s Game
Warhead: Arch and Grant’s Farm
Bazooka: Arch and Cardinal’s Game
Starburst:  Grant’s Farm
Fireball:  Grant’s Farm
Mr. S:  Cardinal’s Game
Mrs. S:  Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Park, and Grant’s Farm