Colonial Willimasburg

June 21, 2015

Colonial Willimasburg

Day 3

The Governor's Palace, Palace Green Street, and the Palace Green

This was our last day in the area of Williamsburg and it was only fitting that we visit the actual Colonial Williamsburg.

Our plans had changed with going to North Carolina to visit my cousin Carly, due to sickness. This meant heading home and knocking our visiting time down to about 2 hours in Williamsburg. This is NOT enough time.

Everyone had suggested that we not get a ticket (day pass) to visit because you could walk around everywhere and get to enjoy just as much. I'm not sure if this is quite true. Maybe it depends on the time of year, but not much was going on the end of March, when we were there, and we got to see very little or learn anything, without tickets. This is also may have related to our time crunch.

To make the best of our time, we started where the visitor's center path leads you, the Governor's Palace. From there we stayed on the main street Duke of Gloucester and that was about all we could cover.

There was an Episcopalian church, Bruton Parish Church, that is one of the oldest churches in America (built in 1674). Many forefathers attended this church. This was fortunately free for us to walk the cemetery yard ~~and go thru the church~~ the church was currently having a service and we couldn't go in until afterwards. We had to skip out. :( Go figure. Not much luck for us this day.

I still loved it but the boys found it very boring. Beautiful gardens and architecture just aren't in their interest...yet. :) A mother can hope. It was truly a beautiful area with lots of history to take in. I enjoyed the stroll around the area to just take in the old way of living. It's right by William and Mary College, as well. Many of the workers there actually live on the grounds in some of the old homes. Anything, "current" such as TV's have to be hidden from the public view. I thought that was interesting.

Despite the rush, and not being able to be absorbed into more of the history of the area, it was still a beautiful place that's worth visiting (just maybe when the kids are a little older).