Thanksgiving Week 2019 with Bonny

My mom came to visit us for Thanksgiving and stayed for the week. We visited Beaufort, New Bern, and the Battleship North Carolina. Thanksgiving dinner was at the Officers' Club on base where we rode our bikes over. My mom brought down her trike so we could all ride around to school, playground, or bowling alley. The dinner was really yummy and we will probably do it again next year. The most fun event was going to see a live-action play of Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer in Raleigh. It was really cute and the kids had a ton of fun.

Guilford Courthouse NMP Goldsboro, North Carolina

The Guilford Courthouse National Military Park commemorates the Revolutionary War Battle of Guilford Court House, fought on March 15, 1781. The losses by the British were about one quarter their soldiers. The British were commanded by Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis who ultimately was the general that surrendered at Yorktown seven months later to General George Washington and Lieutenant General Comte de Rochambeau. The battlefield was designated for preservation by a local resident, David Schenck, in 1886. The battlefield was transferred from the War Department to the National Park Service August 10, 1933. It is a very different type of battlefield from what we are accustomed to in Virginia and Maryland. This was all fought in the woods which made for more difficult fighting conditions.