History Day

Where to start...Our planned "history day" was Thursday. We headed out fairly early because we had so much to do I wanted to get there as soon as everything opened, 9 AM, so we needed to leave around 7:30...well we ended up sitting in traffic for 2 hrs, only to find out we could NOT get through the tunnel to get to Williamsburg etc. There was an accident of some sort and a pipe that burst (guess its good they don't want the underwater tunnel filling up with water) There was one other tunnel we could have driven back to get through, but we decided by the time we made it there and through we would be way too behind to fit everything in. We decided to go Friday instead. We did get to sit in traffic again for about 30 minutes because one lane was still closed. We got to Williamsburg right around 9 and made our way around to all of the free places we could look there. It turned out to be a better day because the weather was a bit cooler and just beautiful for us. Then we headed to Shirley Plantation and ate our sandwiches in the car on the way. We enjoyed the tour of the house as well as looking around at the many buildings on the grounds. Then we headed to Jamestown Settlement. They have a wonderful set up there with a museum type building and then also a fort and Native American camp grounds, as well as ship replicas, all for you to go through. By this time it was 5 and closing time so we headed home, all exhausted, only to end up in one final traffic jam for about an hr. :) Who doesnt want to be stuck in traffic with Miss Lorelei the car seat lover! :) Lets just say we sang A LOT of B-I-N-G-O. We all enjoyed the day though!