We went to Williamsburg last week-end. I got a gun, and a lady gave me a piece of sheep's wool. She was weaving and spinning wool. We saw the thing that Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on, but her needle went straight up and this one went to the right. And we got to see the blacksmith. He was making nails, but he wasn't making horseshoes. Dad, Isaiah, Grace & I had a picnic while the others went to the court beside the stocks. The picture above (soldiers marching): the soldiers shot guns and muskets and cannons. The other picture: we went to the stocks and when I did the hands and head stocks, the stocks pinched my skin.
All the rooms at the hotel had TVs in them. The living room had a CD player and a tape player. You could put 3 CDs in at a time. It had a remote for it.
We ate at IHOP once and drove through Taco Bell twice, and we ate pizza from Pizza Hut at the hotel. It was fun!
~Sam
10 comments:
Man, I'm glad they put those guys in the stocks. They look like they were up to some serious mischief. The town is a safer place with them contained (although something tells me the little guy can slip his feet out if he takes off his shoes).
yeah- those holes look pretty big. Maybe you chain their ankles together.
Sam, you and Izzy did a good job of looking pitiful, like you'd been there a while. Just like C&B, but, uh, you can sort of see what looks like visitor passes clipped to their pants...
Chains! Of course, that's what we needed. Izzy loved running way ahead of us; I guess I really needed to just detain him in the stocks. Didn't think of chains :) But he was so cute.
Visitors' passes? You are pretty observant, Ben. I think those are just Caitlin's & Bethany's electronic surveillance monitors; not many people know those were used in conjunction with stocks in Colonial Williamsburg. Especially for skinny people. Especially if they were out of chains.
I bet you made the picture bigger, Ben (:^()
yes I admit it
electronic monitors, I see...
of course, S and I have tennis shoes on.
If I remember my --er-- history correctly, some people did wear sneakers back then. However it was not widely accepted & they were put in the stocks for it. I'm not sure they took kindly to
young women in pants, either, for that matter.
But look at the strength you garnered from your deprived childhood. And how your day-to-day lack made you appreciate your one or two occasions of feasting(in wide-eyed wonder and threadbare --ah --breeches)at Waffle House with Grampa & Willie.
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