Today, our friends on Silver Linings arrived. Katie’s uncle lives close by and drove us all to Colonial Williamsburg. All 8 of us fit snugly in his car! 

Colonial Williamsburg is a recreation of a town in 1638. It became the new capital of Virginia in 1699.  Many of the buildings are original and others are recreated using the same tools and materials as much as possible from the era. Each building features a retail business to learn about such as blacksmith, shoe maker, clothing, wigs, courthouse and governors home. We got to watch them make nails for the floors and sew shoes for the staff! As well as talk to a man working in the wood shop, he was making a wheelbarrow for the laddies who work in the garden. It was cool hearing about how they make everything the same way they did back in the 1600’s.

For dinner, we took a bus to downtown Williamsburg and ate a microbrewery/taco restaurant. It was very delicious, and spicy. Afterwards Katie’s uncle drove us back to Yorktown and we all ate ice cream at Ben and Jerry’s.