This weekend we went to Williamsburg, VA. We left town Friday after Chris got off of work as I was granted the day off from work about three Thursday afternoon. We made it and then got up early on Saturday and went to the Mariner's Museum. It was a lot of fun to see the different ships and such. After our trip to the Mariner's Museum we went to the Williamsburg Winery. We had a fun winery tour which A managed to sleep through. She had a very good nap and the tour guide was rather impressed that she slept so well. We ended up using the winery to get several good photos of the munchkin for her 2 year pictures. :) Hopefully soon we will have those to distribute to everyone, but it will take our friend a while to process them a bit I imagine.
Sunday we went to Jamestown. We went before it got super hot. The original settlement was interesting and then we got to both explore the cargo ships that brought the people over from England as well as listen/watch an artillery demonstration. Since the original fort was there we also got to play in it. I got to be a pikeman in a pike block and the A got to be a musketeer in training. She was young and needed a lot of help, but she wanted to do it. We had gone into the armory and an actor was asking little kids if they wanted to be a musketeer, all the boys (who were 7-10) plus A (who just turned 2) wanted to do it. She then didn't want to give the wooden musket back. Our friend got several pictures so hopefully one or two came out acceptably.
This morning we went to the VA Aquarium in Virginia Beach. It was about an hour drive from Williamsburg, but helped break up the trip a little for us. We got to see all sorts of animals and A loved the fish. She also talked all day about wanting to see the otters. She really likes otters apparently, but they are fun animals so I get the attraction. Here are some pictures from our short venture:
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| walking in |
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| watching some fish |
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| in the aquarium tube |
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| trying to pet the rays |
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| figuring out the lighting scheme our friends devised |
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| Otter swimming in the sun |
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