Williamsburg, Monticello and D.C.

Wow, the Williamsburg area was exhausting. But fun and fascinating too. We spent five days immersed in colonial and revolutionary history while we explored Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown, Virginia.

From there we went a couple hours north to Charlottesville, VA where we toured Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello. I learned quite a few things I never knew about our 3rd President. The man was a genius.

After three days in Charlottesville, we are continuing our U.S. history lessons in our nation's capitol. We are currently at an RV park in College Park, MD, just a few miles outside of Washington D.C. We've been on the go every day. So far we've toured the Capitol Building, wandered around the Library of Congress, sat in the courtroom of the Supreme Court Building, viewed most of the war memorials as well as the Washington and Lincoln monuments, seen the White House, and explored several of the Smithsonian Museum buildings. And in the middle of all that, we managed to squeeze in a day at the AT&T National Golf Tournament hosted by Tiger Woods in Bethesda, Maryland. We saw Tiger make two of the seven birdies he got on the first day of the tournament. Along with other notables, we also got to see Vijay Singh play a few holes. We only have two days left here and there's no way we'll be able to see everything on our list before our time is up. We'll have to come back someday.

There is more I want to say about all these places, along with pictures we want to share, but we're just feeling so overwhelmed with all this tourist activity, we can't yet find the words. We'll expand on this entry when things slow down for us a bit. But we wanted to at least give you all an overview of what we've been doing.