Virginia

This last week Jackson and I ventured down to Richmond to visit my brothers, sister in law and niece! Although my brothers are not in any of the pictures we had a great time seeing them, going to movies and out to eat! Katherine and Savannah took us to see some local plantations on Friday. We had such a great time!We had so much fun with Savvy!

This is Berekley Plantation, it was built in the early 1700's I think.
Berekley is also where you can find the origin of TAPS, I think that happened during the Civil War.
Still at Berekley, you have the first Thanksgiving. Yes in Virginia not where ever Plymouth Rock is. We actually looked it up on wikipedia, the most reliable source on the internet according to Micheal Scott, and it is the first site where they decided to have a day of thanksgiving annually. I think they had the actual feast at Plymouth.
Kath and Savannah
The gardens made me think of Jane Austen.

This is Shirley Plantation and the more interesting plantation if you ask me. It was built around 1720 and has been passed down from son to son since then. The family still lives on the third floor! They have made very few changes to the house and all of the things in the house are family heirlooms, it was awesome!

This is the kitchen building and was used as the kitchen until the 1940s when they put a more modern one in the basement of the house.
Grandmother Willow. This tree has been there since the 1600s.

We stopped in DC for a little while on the way down, and we walked around the mall for a little bit. It was really fun to be back there we were sad we didn't have more time!
You can see where Jackson proposed three years ago!
It was pretty cold and our camera was having some serious struggles.