Holiday spirit

This year it came on a road trip with a car filled with Christmas tunes and two good friends as we headed down to Colonial Williamsburg for a day of exploration. We've committed to exploring the area in and around the DC area one site and one month at a time, and this was our second trip to a recreated colonial town about two and a half hours southeast from Washington.

From Williamsburg with Heather and Joann

The entire recreation is a fabulous reminder of all of those names and places from U.S. history class in high school and their importance and relevance to today. You enter history in Williamsburg and you get to explore it with guides dressed in costume telling you about life in the colonies. Sure, it's a touristy gimmick, but it is also fabulous. I, for one, bought a year-long pass, so if anyone would like to go again, I am definitely game.

From Williamsburg with Heather and Joann

In addition to the usual tour, we took a special Christmas decoration tour (note the numerous pictures of wreaths in the slideshow), saw Santa Claus, and caught a fifteen-minute production of Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol. It was a fantastic day with great company. To top it all off, we hit a skiff of snow coming back into the city! Indeed, Christmas time is here.