Oma & Opa's & Colonial Williamsburg

 

For spring break this year we decided to actually go somewhere!  M'Lynn has been studying U.S. History this year (and Scott and I have had the privilege of helping her study) and Scott has always been a lover of history so we decided to go to visit Oma and Opa who live in Richmond, Virginia. They are only an hour away from some of the old colonies like Williamsburg, Yorktown and Jamestown.  Plus they are only 2 hours away from Washington D.C.! Plus we kind of like their company as well! Oma loves to play and here she is "talking on the phone" with Ian.

 

 Opa is sharing his nice remote control off-road truck!  He even let Rylan take it home with him!

 Oma has some famous songs that she always sang with Scott was little, that she taught the kids while we were there, including this one:

Love his endearing face in this picture!

 

Colonial Williamsburg was quite an adventure, everything was from the 1700's like this kitchen.

There were these two men that were making siding, all with large nails and mallets, Rylan got a turn in hitting it and could barely lift the mallet!

 He helped load some kindling

 Maddy coming out of the barn, she is just so cute!

 an old stable

 Ian loved to hear the rooster say "Cock-a-doddle-do!"

 Past the working farm we went into the village and were really intrigued with the Governor's mansion.  We didn't want to wait in line to go inside but the gardens were impressive enough:

 I can't say no to a perfect picture opportunity!  I would love to see this archway in the spring!

 They had towns people dressed in old colonial clothes, this lady was telling them about how they used to make shoes before they went inside and saw how.

They also had a clay oven making bread, and a real blacksmith shop which makes all the metal and nails for the village still!

 We did take a tour of the Capitol building/courthouse.  This guide knew her stuff and never broke character.

 On the way into the village the walkway had a bunch of plaques to remind us that we were going back to a place with no electricity, where some people had no rights to vote, or were owned, etc.

 Then on the way out it had dates of significant people periods of our history that have changed the way Americans live.  I don't know about anyone else but I was inspired.

The kids were wiped out on the way back.