Jamestown and a Date

On Wednesday, we went to Mass to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption, and then headed out to Jamestown.

My handsome Alexander, ready to roll.

Dad and his girl

Mom and her boys

The basket weaver

 A log boat

Old timey games

I was in charge of strolling-until-he-sleeps

This guy taught us about weapons that sailors used.

Checking out the ships

Lunch break.
We brought our own food everywhere and saved a lot of moolah.

Maggie looks ready for battle, if only she could actually look. 

Watching someone make something.  I couldn't keep up.  Judging from the boys interest  level, it must be a knife or sword.

More old timey games

The church

A spiky ball (I don't actually know what it was, that's just what Andrew called it)

Phil said Andrew should grow his hair out like this dude.

I loved this image of a fur trader's dealings, look how much money he made!  He earned a 650% profit on a deal like this one!!!

Goodies from the gift store

  Later that night, Phil and I went out on a date while Nana and Gramps watched the kids.

TMI? (Too Much Imagery?)

 We went to a delicious Mexican restaurant, and I had to take a picture of this waiter making the world's fastest guacamole.  Not for us, for the table next to us.  I'm allergic to avocados (cue violin):

Then Phil let me shop at The Loft while he flirted talked to a stranger about the Laura Ingraham's book he was reading, and they commiserated about how the world was going to hell in a hand basket.

It was another great day of vacation!

B.G.

We arrived in Williamsburg on Monday afternoon, and after Phil's parents went to a silly timeshare meeting on Tuesday morning (that scored us some awesome discounted tickets) we headed out to Busch Gardens.  The kids had no clue we were going there.  We kept referring to as B.G. in case we ended up not going, and then when we finally told them we were GOING TO BUSCH GARDENS!!!, they said "What's Busch Gardens?"  We explained it was like Disney World but closer, and they were stoked!

 (Why yes, my baby is playing with a prescription pill bottle.  Thanks for noticing.)

 There it is!

This is the parking lot we chose.  100% Irish (me), mostly Italian (Phil)...sorta makes the perfect recipe for offspring.  And you can tell everyone your kids are Garlic and Gaelic :)

Riding the tram:

Waiting for the fun to start, already!

This was Eamon & Maggie's first ride in the sesame Street section.  They look like they are having fun, but when they were done, they said it was too slooooooowwww.  My jaded little ones.

 The roller coaster was much faster and deemed "awesome".

The Pirates 4D show:

  Oh my gosh, you know how I just wrote about my fear of mice and bats?  There was a scene were the bats are flying around in 3D and then your seat blows air onto your neck, and I screamed so loud that I made the baby cry.

 And then I almost cried on this super scary roller coaster with John-Paul.  It was fun but I'm getting too old for the curves:

Train ride from Italy to France (don't spend all your money on a European vacation.....just take the family to B.G. Williamsburg!)

 

So for most of the day, Phil had my camera phone in his pocket, and I missed a lot of photo ops while were split up.  Once we were back together, I snapped as many as I could:

 

It was a great (and exhausting) day.  We were at the park for 7.5 hours, and the kids did amazingly well. 

 At the end of the day we all felt like this:

(Sooooo hungry and soooo tired that you just want to do both at once!)