WWH: 12/31/07 Williamsburg Part II

We spent most of the day in Jamestown in the mist. It wouldn't quite rain, but then it wouldn't clear up at all. The next day....was worse. It poured all day. We took the battlefield tour of Yorktown...in the van. There were a number of stops that would have been nice if you could get out and explore, but it was raining so hard, you couldn't do it. It's something that will be on our "to do" list next time we head back there. I guess New Years isn't exactly the best time to do a walking tour.

Monday turned out to be a beautiful day. A few mud puddles, but hey, you can hop them.

We went into Colonial Williamsburg and wandered Duke of Glouchester street to look at the Christmas decorations. All the decorations there must be done as colonial era. No lights or any modern ornaments of any kind. You didn't have to worry about the herd of lighted reindeer in a front yard.

This house has indented bricks where the workers placed scaffolding when it was being built. At the holidays each year, they put apples in the nooks. The alternating red and yellow apples really set the house off. As the apples rot or are eaten by the squirrels, they're replaced.

You just know that when this guy was growing up, his nickname was Ox. He was just that big. The oxen followed him everywhere, untethered, like a dog, and would not move until he cued them and then they would beat feet up the road to him.

Window decoration-this has artichokes and dried flowers.

Pomegranates and dried flower wreath.

This was in the garden. They put bell glass over the tender shoots at night to give them their own little greenhouses and left them open in the warm part of the day.

You can tell the Merchants had the big bucks...pineapples in every wreath, and two in this one.

This one had cotton, apples and music in it.

More window decorations. I know, I know, I'll stop now.





Okay, this one has nothing to do with the holidays, but was a really cool tree I saw. It was actually shiny. ooooh, shiiiney.....

We went to this huge, lavish, resort for New Years Eve. It was a 5 course meal that was to die for! Caviar champagne amuse bouche, endive/radichio salad with rasberry beer vinigrette, she-crab bisque for the third course.....and for the main course, I had shimp and scallops over a truffle pollenta. And tuxedo cake for dessert-talk about a chocolate buzz to end. Butch had duck and I can't even remember all, but he just kept mmmmmm ing, so whatever it was with his duck must have been pretty good.

Unfortunately, we got up the next morning and came home. rats....damn work