July 25, 2011 Williamsburg

We were up bright and early to go to Williamsburg today. As usual, it was very hot and muggy.

Grandpa drove us right to Williamsburg Park and GG bought our three day passes. Then we went into the old colonial town to take the tour of the governor's mansion.

When we entered the mansion the first room was a reception hall. It was impressive with high ceilings and walls full of displays of swords and rifles and muskets and Derringer's. All of the weapons were arranged in artistic displays.

Each room at the governor's mansion was beautiful, and richly decorated in the colors and style of the times.

All of our guides and many people just waiting or standing around were dressed in colonial fashion.

When we left the governor's mansion we walked out into the village green. There we found some women telling and acting out stories. We watched the story of the eagle and the bat.

Next we learned how to play stickball and had a ball game. It was very hard to catch the ball in the little basket at the end of the stick.

The third activity was playing an Indian gambling game. We would make a row of five stones, with one stone in the first row, two stones in the second, up to five in the fifth row. Then two of the opponents would take turns removing 1,2 or 3 stones from the rows. The player who had to take the last stone lost the game

We went back to the storytellers to get our pin, a reward for doing all of the activities.

It was so hot we ate our lunch in the car with the air conditioning on, and we were so tired we decided to go back to our condo for a rest and swim.