We settled into this campground last Friday. We are in Williamsburg, Virginia and we picked a spot that was just a few miles from everything. When you are picking campgrounds on-line you really never know what you are going to get. All we needed was water,sewer and electricity and that is really all we got. This place was probably quite a campground about 30 years ago. Everything is extremely run down. I thought I might go to the laundry and do some blankets in bigger machines than we have. Out of the 12 washer and dryers, which were about 30 years old, only two didn't have an" out of order" sign on them. Oh well, we didn't come to this historic city to spend time at the campground. Here is one big plus! We are parked underneath a big Pecan tree and they are dropping off the tree quite consistently. So far we have picked up a whole bowl full and they taste delicious!! Now that's special.
As soon as Rob felt well enough (suffering from the "pushed the boat to far" flu) we started seeing the historical areas. We visited the Jamestown Settlement, you know, where John Smith came, and later Poccahontus. Fascinating. Then over to the Jametown reconstruction area. The next two days we spent in Colonial Williamsburg. Now this place in unbeleivable. They have done and are doing an exceptional job restoring this area to an authentic replication of what it would have been like to live here in the 1700's. History, history, history, so much history. We did not see it all, but we put a good dent in it. That's kind of what do everywhere we go.
Hey I just remembered that I forgot something in our last blog. When we were in Maryland we went to Rob's nephew, Tinker and his wife's (Annie) house for dinner one night. It was so good to see them for it had been way to long!
Now for some exciting news! Rob left three hours ago to drive to Raleigh, NC to meet our son Jim and our 3 year old grandson, Eliott. He is bringing him back here tommorrow and he'll be spending the next two weeks with us while we are at the Outer Banks of North Carolina. And yes we will be taking him Trick or Treating!! Yea!! We are so excited! Funny little story, Eliott asked his mother today if he was coming to see Mimi and Pop (Rob and I) today. She told him no, not until tommorrow. He said, "not tommorrow, Mimi said she can't wait to see me". Obviously I told him I couldn't wait to see him, he thought we would leave without him. SOOOOOOOOOO cute. Anyway, these next two weeks should be very special and we so happy his mom and dad let us do this.
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