Colonial Williamsburg Homeschool Days

We just returned from spending some time in Colonial Williamsburg for Homes Educator Days. Let me just say ~ if you've ever wanted to visit with your family {and you homeschool} this is definitely the time of year to do it.

A two day's pass is only $8.00 {$9 for walk-up price} per person and kids 5 and under are free. To give you an idea on how great of a deal that is, a similar pass would be $46.00 per person. Single day passes are only $5 per person....so needless to say, we were happy to take advantage of the great deal!

I'm planning to post some more later about what we saw and did, but need to say that we had one little girl that was VERY excited to be walking around in colonial times....

Flat Mary Visited Canada!

Our friend Amanda had a lovely visit with Laurianna's Flat Mary and has since sent Flat Mary onto some more friends. Today, she sent us some of the pictures of Mary's visit to British Columbia.



Amanda writes: These are the mountains that mark the top of the Fraser Valley. Aren't they beautiful? October-March they are pretty consistently hidden behind the rain-filled clouds, but they peaked out a few weekends ago, and we tried to snap some pictures. This picture was taken four blocks away at the grocery store, but the sky is filled with mountains like this from west to east when you drive down the street towards my house.

Mary showing a picture of where she stayed.


Mary had to see some of the local trees. Amanda told us: There are trails throughout the entire commonwealth. They are often behind housing developments, woods, marches, open fields--it's nice. It means there are always public places with nature around them and it makes going for walks great fun. (If you look really close in the first picture, you'll see Flat Mary stuck to the tree on the bottom right hand corner).

Thanks so much, Amanda, for being such a lovely hostess to Mary!