Okay history buffs, start your engines! This past week our sweet little family took a quick vaca to Williamsburg, VA! Virginia might be one of the most beautiful places on the earth, just saying. We met Daniel's parents and brother Adam and his cute family at a time share (courtesy of Daniel's grandparents, thanks Grandma and Grandpa Metzger) for some quality Tracy family time!
Here's the lot of us behaving pretty well if I do say so myself.
We began the site seeing at the Jamestown settlement. This was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas established in 1607 (yes, I pulled this from Wikapedia). This was probably my favorite because it had actual remnants of the original settlement (in the pic below, follow the numbers around people).
1. This is a reconstruction of a "mud and stud" hut that would have been there during that time.
2. A current excavation site where they are currently uncovering a brick foundation of something. What could it be?!
3. Original brick foundation of what is believed to be a tavern. Abundances of bottle glass, beer casts and brass spigots were found in the ground below the foundation.
4. All hail the King!!!
There was a museum on site (that we were not aloud to take pictures in) but had a lot of super cool artifacts uncovered. My personal favorite being the skeleton of a girl that was believed to be eaten because the people were so starving for food. Blood thirsty cannibals!
1. Norah and Daniel checking out some cannons during that time period.
2. This is a replica ship that would have brought over the first settlers in the early 1600's.
3. Bambi?! Where'd you come from?
4. Us with Daniels parents and little Sarah. Smile Sarah (I still don't know who that statue is suppose to be)!
This is colonial Williamsburg. It served as Virginia's capital until 1780 when it was moved to Richmond. The town of Williamsburg has been rebuilt to depict what it would have been during colonial times. It hold a lot of Revelutionary War history back when Virginia declared themselves a free state apart from England.
1. This is the Governor's mansion (before he fled back to England).
2. An idea of how the town shops were back then
3. The Capitol building
This trip reminded me on how little I know about US history. So it was very neat to relearn it! Norah of course was wonderful the entire trip. Here she is spending quality time with Grandma Tracy. They were definitely buddies this trip :)
When our knowledge wasn't being tested we went swimming (before tropical storm Andrea uninvitedly showed up), ate ourselves silly while I dominated everyone in Ticket to Ride :)
Okay, so this is more like how we behaved...
Thanks for a great week everyone!!!
