Williamsburg, VA

Darrel and I are here in the Outer Banks, in North Carolina, for a week. His family rents a house on the beach every year, and this is the first time in about 10 years that Darrel was able to make it back down! We sucked it up and made the 12 hour drive to come down here and have a fun week. But not without a stop in Colonial Williamsburg!

Williamsburg was about eight hours from Cleveland, and would leave us with four hours left to drive the next day. The best part about our stop? For sure the hotel! I found a place called the Wedmore Inn online. It's located on the Williamsburg Winery property, and it was even better than the pictures they had on their website! I wanted to live there. We even put the robes on over our clothes, just to get some good use out of them.

It almost looks like a castle, and every room is decorated and named after a wine region in Europe. They only have about 25 rooms, and 12 of them were booked when we were there on Friday night, so we kind of felt like we were the only ones there. To give you an idea of how nice it was, they actually had REAL keys for the rooms, and robes. Yep. Swanky. Yet it really was not that expensive, which surprised me. For a little bit more than a motel, like the Holiday Inn, we were able to stay at this amazing place, a bit off the beaten tourist path, and it came with a tour of the winery, a wine tasting, and breakfast.

We went to dinner at a good seafood place on Friday night, and then stopped at one of the taverns in town. All of the people that work there wear period clothing, they had peanuts on the tables, and guys singing ridiculous songs with mini guitars. Very tourist-y, but we loved it.

We woke up early on Saturday morning to do the Colonial Williamsburg thing. We wanted to be back on the road by no later than 2:00 to make it to the Banks by dinner. We figured we would start at the Visitor's Center and go from there. Turns out you have to buy a day pass for about $35 to see anything in the town. You literally cannot even go into the church without the pass. It wasn't worth it to us due to our limited time, so we just walked around for a few hours. There was an awesome farmer's market where we bought cheese for $5.00 that came in a tub about the size of a silver dollar. I told Darrel he needs to use it sparingly because I feel like we are eating gold. $5.00??!! Anyway, we would love to go back when we have more time- there seems to be so much to do there!


Off to the beach to watch Darrel boogie board!