Trip to the beginning

Last weekend, we went down south in Virginia for a few days to check out Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown to see the first settlement in America and the sight for the surrender of the Revolutionary War. It was a fun trip and we enjoyed the beautiful weather and spring scenery. When we got down there, I decided I wasn't in too much of a "museum" mood and would rather stay outside and enjoy the weather so we didn't spend as much time as I anticipated touring the historical museums and such. As we walked along the sites, we ended up stumbling on a couple of very cool places...a glass making demonstration and President's Park. But first, here are a few pictures of the historical sites.

Monument at Yorktown for Surrender of British in Revolutionary War

Yorktown Battlefield

I am currently obsessed with flowers and I love taking pictures of them. Here are my favorites...

The glass blowing demonstration in Jamestown was very, very cool. The whole process is less than 10 minutes and here are some pictures. We were mesmerized and ending up watching for a good 45 minutes!


Ta-Da! Here is the final product!


The President's Park was right by our hotel and it ended up being very cool. They have huge busts of each president and then a bunch of facts about each of them.


We learned a lot of cool facts about the presidents, here are a few of my favorites:

- James Madison was only 5 ft. 4 in. and weighed in at 100 lbs...he was kind of a little fella.
- James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other, both at the same time.
- Woodrow Wilson believed that the number 13 was his lucky number. He dropped his first name, Thomas, so that Woodrow and Wilson would equal 13 letters.
- Calvin Coolidge was very quiet and shy. When a lady at a dinner party informed him that she had a wager that she could make him say more than two words, he replied, "You lose."
- LBJ has a quote that I made sure Ryan noted, "I've learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her way. And second, let her have it." ;)

My favorite thing I learned is this...take note of the second fact down on the list for Ulysses S. Grant.



Note to self, do not speed on a horse in DC.

It was a fun trip and we learned some fabulous facts to share!