We are home and UNpacked from our two week trip to Williamsburg, Virginia and a side trip to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and a day at Mt. Vernon. Our purpose for the trip was to take Elizabeth to the archaeology dig she had signed up for. We waited and did our sightseeing.
I knew going in that Virginia in July would be hot but I wasn't expecting the kind of hot we had. Jungle heat and humidity. My God, that humidity. We have humid weather in Michigan but it isn't like that! It was brutal but when you're there you just have to power through and so we tried our best. One redeeming thing, we agreed that we were two old people who were not lugging kids around trying to keep them happy. We could do what we wanted, as much as we wanted and for how long we wanted. And we had a great time.
We arrived on Saturday, late, and after taking Elizabeth to her host home late Sunday night we stayed in the area on Monday to make sure she was ok then Tuesday we headed back north 4 hours to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the site of one of the worst and most decisive battles of the Civil War. We stayed there for three days, we conquered Gettysburg.
It's a sobering place when you actually stand in the spot where the generals stood directing. Gettysburg was PH's part of the trip, the part he wanted to really absorb. That's why we gave it three days. One for the tour bus and then we went back on our own.
On a lighter note, while PH and Elizabeth did all of the driving - it was 13 hours down and we did it in one day, but we took a different route to avoid Washington D.C. area at ALL costs so it was 14 hours in one day home - I stitched. This is my car project and it's growing. I don't know yet what I'm going to do with it. Not sure if I should make it longer than wide or square it off or if it will ever be finished. It's completely random, the only thing I'm trying to notice is not putting two reds or two navy blues together. We have another long car trip coming up so there is more to do.
Finished two of the books I took with me and am halfway through one I bought. That's pretty good but it was also because we never once turned on the television and the internet wouldn't play well with my iPad so I didn't even get to read blogs or waste time scrolling. When day was done we read.
As I said, I didn't do any blog reading so I'm really behind on yours, as I get going back to normal here I'll show a few more pics of the trip.
Sounds like a wonderful trip. I'm so glad you got to see and feel that part of history. You hexagons look great. I've started a small piece and who knows what it will turn out to be. My husband is having surgery next week so I'll get more done while I'm in the waiting room.
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