Williamsburg, VA

We went to Williamsburg a couple of weeks ago.  It was a nice long weekend — Thursday through Sunday.  It was pouring down rain the day we drove down.  We took the candlelight ghost tour that night, and it was raining so hard that we were soaked down to our underwear.  LOL  I had to run our sneakers through two cycles in the hotel dryer the next morning.

On Friday we started out with breakfast at the Old Mill Pancake House and then toured around Colonial Williamsburg a bit.  We visited the Governor’s Palace and gardens, the blacksmith shop and then hung around for Revolutionary City.  We had dinner at a local Mexican joint and then headed back to the hotel.

Saturday started off with breakfast at Hot Stacks, and then we spent the rest of the day back in Colonial Williamsburg.  Our first stop was the Wythe house and gardens, which we had missed on Friday.  We got to see a demo of spinning yarn and weaving cloth in one of the buildings at the back of the property, and then we toured the house.  It’s amazing how simple the homes were back in Colonial times.  George Wythe was one of the most prosperous men in the town, and yet his home is tiny compared to today’s standard McMansion.  We also noticed that the homes didn’t have a lot of “stuff” in them — everything seemed mostly functional and there weren’t a lot of knick-knacks sitting around collecting dust.

We also stopped by the saddle shop, the armory and the court.  We finished the afternoon by touring the Capital building and the Randolph Peyton house.  With time to spare before dinner at Christiana Campbell’s Tavern, we spent some time shopping in the market place.  I thought dinner was great — the wait staff was in period costume and served period food.  We both loved the spoon bread.  John could have done without the live music and speach by “Christiana Campbell” — for whatever reason, he just wanted to eat dinner and wasn’t particularly in the mood for the entertainment.  But dinner was good, we both enjoyed it.

After a breakfast at McDonald’s on Sunday morning, we headed out for Jamestown and Yorktown.  We were able to tour the entire Jamestown historic site, but never made it to the town itself.  We drove through Yorktown and stopped to see a reinactment of a Britich soldier march (on the anniversary of George Washington’s march to Yorktown from Williamsburg, btw), but didn’t have more time to tour the area — we’ll have to go back.

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