Rest, Virginia, sick of travelling

and then it was time for a vacation from our vacation. all the roaming about is hard work, and can be tedious, so we were excited to stay a few days with Nic and Ryan and do nothing but lounge about and eat their food - Thanks Nic and Ryan!! Virginia is a state packed with history, there's really too much to do here, so we didnt try. We skipped DC because we were there last year, and I didnt get to see Mount Vernon, Monticello, or Lloyds son:(

And Derek and Cheryl even came by and hung out and we had a slumber party two nights in a row! we did civilized things, we watched TV, slept in beds. Bathed. it was a nice change, if a little tedious.

we even had a sunday dinner with Nic's family who are about the nicest people you'll ever meet. we once stayed up til like 2 talking about the history of cheese and the plight of the dairymen, one of the most interesting late night conversations i've ever had. we even have a scooter bond! thanks for dinner, you guys! (the ice cream shown in the photo wasnt dinner, but desert, just for clarification)


we did take a short day trip down to Williamsburg, one of the original colonies. there's block after block of 'original' colonial town here and its a pretty neat sight.

this was the church that George Washington and his gang would attend while here on business, its an old place.

and this is the governors mansion that held some pretty important people, including Thomas Jefferson (i think, i could be wrong about that now)

the goats were my favorite part of history

but by and by i got to feelin' like Huck Finn and my britches began to chafe me. i was'a ichin to get back on my raft. a man can be free on a raft, not all cooped up indoors, where we had to follow all those rools and had to eat at the table, and that only after Ryan had mumbled some jibberish over the food when there wasnt nothin wrong with it, that i could see.