Williamsburg

The week after Thanksgiving, we headed south to Virginia. We stopped in Quantico to see my nephew Matt get baptized. My parents flew in for it, and then we were all headed down to Williamsburg for the week. It was so much fun to have everyone together, and Nicole loved playing with her cousins.

It was an action packed week! We visited colonial Williamsburg a couple of times and ate lunch at the King's Arms Tavern. We watched a fife and drum band walk down historic main street and we played with the animals. Oh, and we shopped.

 

We also visited Jamestown and Yorktown. We told Nicole that Pocahontas was from Jamestown, and she was so excited! We got to walk through an Indian village and get on board the replica ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery. At Yorktown, we got to watch them shoot off some guns at the army encampment and walk through a 1780's farm and see some turkeys!

One night we drove out to the middle of nowhere, and there was this huge Christmas light show. It was really fun - we tuned our radios to some good Christmas music and drove through the winding lights.

We did fun Christmas-y things like gingerbread houses, and we even lucked out and heard that Santa was coming to town our last night there.

Right before we left town, we headed back into Colonial Williamsburg to see a parade. It was a great way to end our vacation!