Colonial Williamsburg and Lazy Resort Days

We stayed in Williamsburg for four nights, and spent the day after Busch Gardens just relaxing around the resort.  Actually, Phil and I woke up and went for a run, then gathered all the kiddos and headed to Publix for groceries.  They all wanted to go because they like Publix and we don't have one near us, so it's a vacationy thing to do.  We had created an easy meal plan and made the grocery list ahead of time and it actually worked out perfect with hardly any food leftover that we needed to take back to MD with us at the end of our stay.  We will keep that meal plan and grocery list for future trips!

We have stayed at Greensprings before, but now it is owned by Hilton, and they are doing some construction and making some changes.  The only downside was that even though it felt like summer weather to us, the outdoor pool didn't open until May 1.  But this place has so many upsides!  We love it because you can get a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom suite with a kitchen and family room and dining room for pretty inexpensive.  We got two suites (so four bedrooms total that were right across from each other) for four nights for less than $800.  It allowed us to cook our meals and have plenty of space.  Honestly, we only have 2 bathrooms at home so having 4 bathrooms felt incredible luxurious!  As did the large tubs in the master baths:

Simple lunches of sandwiches, chips and fruit

Even though it was our Spring Break week, it seems that nobody else got the memo because the place was so quiet and almost everything we went to do was like a private event!

Pool to ourselves

Workout room to ourselves

Jacuzzi to ourselves

Mini Golf to, you guessed it, ourselves

The amount of fun these boys can have with a ball in the pool is wild.  They were jumping and catching, making up games to throw through the rafters, etc.  Maggie and I were amazed at their simple fun ways.

The resort is situated next to a golf course that you can see out of your balcony/windows and Eamon and Andrew brought their clubs to take advantage.  Hard to tell, but they're playing on the hole right behind our building:

They did not invite Maggie after her showing at the driving range back in Maryland:

On Wednesday, Andrew drove back to college, and the rest of us went to Colonial Williamsburg to walk around:

My four older siblings really were in a Fife and Drum band, my kids are just posing

My street!

This next photo cracks me up because I took a couple of the kids standing still, then told them to jump for the next photo and I could have guessed 100% correctly which of my kids would do it and which wouldn't:

Some are people pleasers and some are party poopers

Maggie found her house

Declan was looking for his name on the houses with no success, and then Maggie told him to pose with this sign because his middle name was almost going to be Botetourt:

A few minutes later, Declan asked me "Is it true that my middle name was almost Botetourt?"  We must protect the innocence of this sweetheart!

With seven kids, I certainly could have used one of these for timeouts ;)

We went back and swam again that evening, watched another episode of The Americas, and I ate my first Crumbl Cookie.  It was very good but I wish they didn't list the calories on the website - don't they know vacation calories don't count?!?