Tuesday in Colonial Williamsburg

Tuesday was our day to walk around Colonial Williamsburg and see some of the wonderful old history of the city and do some geocaching along the way. Our first stop was the statue of Thmas Jefferson at his writing desk doing his rough draft of the Declaration of Independence and #3 on Dog virtual cache (see pic). Our next stop was a few of the shops and stores along The Duke of Glouchester Street and the Bruton Parrish Church that has been serving man since 1715 (see pic). Walking along the street we saw The Colonial Garden & Nursery, Green how Store, Shoemaker, The Courthouse, the Magazine & Guardhouse, Printing Office & Post Office, Chowning's Tavern, Blacksmith Shop, Wetherburns'Tavern, Silversmith, King's Arms Tavern and Gingercakes Bakery where we also located our second cache. On our way back we saw the Hanging Tree (see pic), several colonial homes, the Governor's Palace and (see pic) a large steel dome right in the middle of the Town Square, which was the location of our 3rd cache, a virtual, Noise Out of Place. This is an air vent for the tunnel that goes under Colonial Williamsburg along the Colonial Parkway. We visited a few shops and Mom did some Xmas shopping along our walk back to the car. After getting back to the car we left and did 5 more caches, one of which was Literary Limpet which took us to a lovely library with a interesting sculpture in front (see pic). We returned to the campgrounds and picked up Muffy and Raggs and went grocery shopping and stopped at the Dollar Store. We also met 2 lovely older ladies from Albany, NY that were camping across from us in a conversion van. They are traveling cross country to Tucson, AZ making lots and lots of stops just like us. They asked us about geocaching and thought they might get into it as they travel. Well see everybody again soon. Miss you all and love you guys.