A Romantic Getaway!

So last weekend Josh and I took a much needed getaway to Williamsburg, Va without our little boy. (He spent the weekend with Gran and Porge.) We missed him but had a great time just being the two of us again, even if it was just for a bit. We stayed at the beautiful Williamsburg White House B & B that was amazing. The Jefferson Room was so beautifully decorated and very cozy. Williamsburg and Jamestown were so much fun and very romantic. It is amazing t0 think that here we are with the oldest history of our country right in our backyard and we never go there. I guess it is the age old tale of you're never a tourist in your own area. We had a blast and can't wait to do it again.

In the stockade...you have to do this if you go!!
Our awesome park ranger tour guide in Jamestown.
Captain John Smith looking out onto the James River.

So cool they are still doing archaeological digging there.
Me and Pocahontas
A buck we saw only 20 feet away

Our favorite place, and our last stop, was the Glasshouse!! The Virginia Company was trying to make money any way they could by industrializing, so they brought over glass artisans from Germany and Poland in 1608. Needless to say it didn't work and the artists didn't get along with each other or the English. The Virginia Company tried again in 1622 with Italian glassblowers but again the attempt to industrialize with glass failed. In 1954 they found remnants of the glass house and now years later modern day glassblowers dressed in colonial garb blow

glass along the James River.

I think we could have stayed there watching them all day. It was hot but so peaceful and awesome watching them make the glass!

The 400th anniversary bottle that we got!!