Colonial Williamsburg

My parents are out for a weekend visit so we took a trip out to Colonial Williamsburg, VA to see some of the history of the colonial times of this country.  What a day it has been.  Most of the stuff is closed up since it is winter, but we did a few tours and got to walk around a lot.  My mom and I both are huge fans of history and over the last almost 2 years I've been reading about the founding of the country and our founding fathers.  I still learned so much while out there today.  We took so many photos and the kids did great.

This is the Govenor's Palace.  Williamsburg had been the original capitial of Virginia during the colonial time.

One map of how the states were during the colonial times, baised on what the King of England "owned".

Inside the Govenor's house were all of these guns, swords ect.  The Earl (govenor) had over 534 of them.

The crest on the back of the govenor's palace.

Grandpa and the kids

The stockades

The boys in the stockades

Grandma and Grandpa with the kids

The first capiail building of Virginia.  Right side was the represenitives of the people, left was for the aristocrats.

We are are deffinantly going to be coming back here more times this year.  It was just so much fun, and we learned so much.