Our first picture at Williamsburg. That sure looks like a British flag!?!?
A plantation re-creation.
Tobacco growing at Great Hopes Plantation.
Here, piggy piggy!
"Two oxen and a man with a gut", walking down Duke of Glouchester St.
The boys just trying to fit in.
Gargantuan Emily takes a picture of the crowd following the Fife and Drum march.
The Drums.
The Fifes.
More drums.
Getting ready for the speech by General Washington and the musket and cannon spectacle.
George Washington (not really!) addresses the troops.
As George rides away... oh my gawd! No no no... just an unfortunate sequencing of images.
Wait until you see the whites of...
Kerpowie! (German for "Bang"!) Yes, it was loud and yes the militia was wearing hearing protection.
Making ready the cannons. (The gentleman on the right would be good as the back end of a two-piece horse costume, don'tcha think?)
Now these were REALLY loud!!!
Video - A sampling of fife and drum music at the beginning of the event.
Video - Loading and firing the muskets. I jumped at the first shot (and you can tell).
Video - Cannon fire. (I was prepared for the noise. this time.)
Giant bellows at the Silversmith's shop.
Detail work on one of the silver pieces. This will become a decorative drum.
Want to buy some coins? Eh....
Making bricks! Doug accidentally stepped on someone else's brick and ruined it. What a dork. :^)
The clay needs to be stomped by many many feet before it can be made into bricks.
The family ditching Doug as usual. Sniff sniff...
A meeting room at the courthouse.
Learning about the colonies and the court system. According to the map behind the speaker, we Boulderites actually live in Virginia!
Wearing a tricorn hat in 100+ temps.
Doug's artsy fartsy image of Wyatt wearing his tricorn hat in an air- conditioned building.
Some nice brickwork on a miscellaneous house.
Someone had a bit too much time on their hands at the Governor's Palace.
At the palace garden.
The maze at the palace.
Entrance to the Maze.
Spontaneous Jazzersize (or is that napping?).
Wyatt looking very official. Oh, by the way, that's the Govenor's Palace.
Hey... "Jazzersize posing Emily" makes that tricorn hat look... GOOD!
And you thought I was kidding about being ditched!
The selection at the busy bakery.
Having a snack, including cold root beer and scuppernong, outside the bakery.
Davis playing a harpsichord at the cabinetmaker's shop. Two tradesman at the shop built this harpsichord.
Video - Davis playing a portion of Clair de Lune. (This, of course, is not an authentic 18th century piece.)
"Huzzah!" restaurant. Highly recommended.
Preparing some musket barrels at the gunsmith's shop.
Hiding out at the blacksmith's shop.
Blacksmithing stuff.
Video - Some blacksmithing.
At the printing shop.
The classic stockade photo.
The Magazine.
Doug is concerned... and so was the older couple that walked by while Doug had this expression on his face.
Dad was a bit too excited to enter the Magazine and was taught a useful, albeit fatal, lesson.
Weaponry at the Magazine.
The boys in the Magazine.
Visiting the gaol was a captivating experience!
We are all capitvated. :-)
Wyatt sitting on the "toilet" in the gaol cell.
No comment.
You can go in....
But you can't get out.
Recognize this piece of wall from the HBO John Adams series? Paul Giamatti undoubtedly touched this wall at some time or other. Oooo....
Doug trying his hand at the wood-twirly-thing at the carpenter's shop. (Oh, Doug just looked at my caption and told me it's a LATHE.)
Wyatt's turn.
One of the thousands of magnolia blossoms we saw during our visit.
A windmill, closed for repair, still makes a nice photo subject..
The hat shop.
Waiting for the Colonial Williamsburg shuttle bus. (We walked from the visitor center to the town once - in 100 degree heat - that was enough.)
Uh oh, Emily got stuck on the shuttle bus!
We were privileged to have our lodgings just down the road from the only known UFO embedded in the ground.
Visiting Yorktown.
Davis lost his head today!
The rental car crossing a one-lane bridge near Yorktown.
Wyatt ready to be launched from the mortar.
In the Yorktown trolley on a short tour of the village (and it was air-conditioned!).
At the dinner table on a reproduction of a colonial ship.
Ready for battle! Or surrender, one or the other.
Another of the two restaurants we frequented on our trip. Food for Thought. Excellent! (with free wi-fi to boot)
Dinnertime!
A dessert at Food for Thought.
Wyatt made a friend on one of the ships at "Jamestown Settlement."
A ship at Jamestown Settlement. Supposedly these ships do sail from time to time, but they felt very securely moored to the dock (or to the bottom of the bay?).
Bunks on the ship.
Six totems - oh wait, three totems - at Jamestown Settlement.
Relaxing in the condo with a TV nearby and sweets in hand.
In the grove (shade!) walking from the parking lot to the Virginia Beach Aquarium.
The "petting zoo" of rays and skates at the aquarium. I never thought that I'd consider a ray to be cute, but I do now!
Video - Petting the rays.
Video - Wyatt and Doug pet the rays and skates while the strange curator points far away. Doug tries to scare him away by lifting his sleeve to show his right shoulder.
Admiring the shark tank.
Walking between the two aquarium buildings. An impossible task except for the rejuvenating effect of Dippin' Dots!
Map showing the two aquarium buildings and habitat area.
Some of the hippest people at Virginia Beach. Davis, in hindsight, was the smartest of the three of us. Can you guess why? Hey, is that a gut I see on the cool dude on the left? Nah...
Virginia Beach! Yea! The ocean was cool (not cold) and the air temperature wasn't as scorchingly hot here.
A bike path - nice addition since the 70s when Emily was here last. (The hotel is, alas, gone.)
The team heads to the sunscreen-scraping Atlantic Ocean.
One of the smaller waves, yes this was a small one, tries to take down Wyatt.
We were here!
At the Science Museum of Virginia, bullying the Earth Kugel.
The boys learn about inertia first hand. Yeah right, push upward on a giant spinning object that is covered in water. :^)
Video - A "space mission"
Video - The boys attempt to perform a simulated space-chair-walk mission. (Think giant chairs on a giant air-hockey table.)
Boys read the newspaper while waiting for the train.
The Science Museum of Virginia was originally a train station. And a big one at that!
An aluminum submarine.
Walking back to the station - I mean to the museum.
We nearly had the place to ourselves.
Segway lessons.
Now this was way cool ! Gotsta get me one 'o them!
Emily makes a bee-line for the gift shop - then comes for the camera man. I think she was growing tired of Doug by this time.
Video - A portion of the rat training explanation.
