Day 20- Williamsburg

 Well 20 days into the trip and I finally made it to the East Coast. 

I've been exhausted ALL DAY. I woke up exhausted in Greensboro due to a lack of sleep. I arrived to Colonial Williamsburg exhausted.  I left Colonial Williamsburg Hot, sweaty and exhausted and then I actually did things in the evening.  Hopefully all of this exhaustion actually allows me to sleep tonight. 

Stop 1: Prior to leaving Greensboro I knew it was important to see the Woolworths sit-in location.  While I was unable to go inside and see the museum as I left so early it still felt important to provide time and space in my day to stop and see the building.  

Spinning and Weaving 

Governor's Palace

Church

Blacksmith and Foundry

Wythe House 

Stop 2: Colonial Williamsburg.  This place turned me on to history as a middle schooler.  It quite literally came alive and I fell in love with the thought of reenactments.  12-year old Claire was set on working there someday.  While that hasn't happened yet, maybe someday.  I did learn about a teacher summer program that they offer (in non-pandemic times) that I am going to look into for the future.  I spent 4 hours and walked over 4 miles exploring the grounds of the immense living history museum.  While much was closed today, it was still lovely and due to there being so few people I also got several solo tours of buildings and shops which was lovely as I am overwhelmed by large groups of people. 

I took lots of pictures- please enjoy them. 

Dropped everything off the at the hotel, took a quick cold shower before heading out for the evening. 

Jars fo Honey, Mead Flight and
Honey Tasting

Stop 3: Silver Hand Meadery for Honey and Mead tasting and flight.  A very cool experience.  The tasting started with a Honey Flight, sampling a variety of the honeys that they use to produce their mead.  While they provided a limited sampling to start they were more than happy to offer other honeys after the mead flight.  After the honey flight came the mead tasting.  Unfortunately for me I cannot eat lavender or strawberries, so that meant that 1 honey and 2 meads were out.  Not their fault though and I still enjoyed the experience.  I then got a flight (4 one-ounce pours) of meads they only have on tap not in bottle, which is too bad because I fair and away preferred the mead I had on tap- especially the Thai Mango which had a nice kick to it as a result of the use of thai chilis.  

Stop 4: Fin for seafood dinner.   Totally a treat to self meal.  I started with the Sweet Corn and lump crab soup. The sweet corn flavor was perfection and the amount of lump crab in the soup was impressive. Honestly one of the best bites I've had on this trip!  For my entree I had scallops over a risotto.  Initially in reading the menu I was excited for the black garlic demi glaze, unfortunately there was just too much of it and it overpowered the delicacy of the scallop.  It was still tasty, but not what I expected. 

Total distance walked today: 9,651 steps and 5 flights of stairs. 

Hotel Review Wyndham Garden: Busch Gardens

Pros: Strong A/C, Convenient to the HW, wifi, microwave, fridge, TV, free parking, elevator, breakfast included, outlets on nightstand, coin-op laundry available

Cons: Check in isn't til 4pm, close location to a water park/theme park means lots of kids running around the halls = loud even late at night, not walking distance to any restaurants. 

Signing off for now

-C