Taking a Look Back

May 23

Williamsburg VA

Day 11

Dear Lord, Thank you, thank you, thank you for allowing me to be born in 1950 in the United States of America. Amen.

I have never been more appreciative of our modern conveniences than I am tonight!

Today we visited a place that we have passed near for many years, but never entered, Colonial Williamsburg.

 

The weather was quite warm, hitting 90 degrees and humid. Fortunately, there are many tall trees to provide shade and the structures have air conditioning.

We were looking at a map of the area when we were accosted by a little old lady volunteer handing out brochures and explaining what Colonial Williamsburg was all about. Man, she was a hard one to escape from!  We bought the passes to enter all the buildings and take tours. On Mondays several are closed...the good part is that the crowds are light.

All of the hosts are dressed in period clothing and speak about things in the present (colonial day present, that is) and it put an interesting slant on learning history. .



A recreation of the Virginia Capitol



It looked like a Hollywood set, I was expecting George Washington to come around the corner any minute. Everything was either original, or recreated to stringent specifications, and it was beautiful.

Yes, beautiful, but life was so hard.

Tomorrow we are going even further back in history, to the Jamestown settlement and the the Yorktown Battlefield.

I'm almost 'history'd out'...