Girls Day Trip

The county's recreation department was offering a trip to the historical mansions of Montpelier, home to James Madison and, Monticello Thomas Jefferson's lovely estate. A bunch of us girls heard about it and decided it would be the perfect little day trip. Well- let me be honest I wasn't super excited about it, which wasn't a huge secret because well, what is ever a secret with me? But I went (barely) because I really love these girls and didn't want to miss out. And let me tell you, I was so glad, even being 35 weeks pregnant and looking fat in all these pictures was worth it! I had a lot of fun hanging with some great girls and the day really made me fall in love with early american history again.(oh how I've missed you!) But Shhh! Don't tell my parents who relentlessly took us to ALL the sites on the east coast-For the record- I DID "hate" every minute of it and I am still very ungrateful about it! ;) ;) So we loaded up on the bus nice and early and had our first stop at Montpelier. The location was beautiful! The house was gorgeous! And I learned a lot about one of the most under appreciated founding fathers of our country. I will say though, that I would maybe wait a few more years before visiting this house since they are still working on getting it furnished. It's just a lot of pretty much empty rooms. (they just finished actually re-building it a few years ago)
For lunch we ate at the famous Michie Tavern in Charlottsville. It was such a cute house and I think this picture tells you all you need to know about that home cookin! yumm yumm!
And it was a buffet...I am ashamed at how much I ate!
Emily and Christen-chowing down. Might I add that it was slightly embarrassing that our little group of girls were always the LAST ones on the bus. haha. I felt so bad. We were always holding them up, I don't think they liked us very much!
Me, Marci, Emily, Brittany, and Christen. (thanks Lissa for taking the picture!) This was at Monticello.
The beautiful Monticello. This trip made me realize what an amazingly well rounded, genius of a man ole TJ was. He was amazing. I came away wanting to increase my passion for learning. I love that he dabbled in a bit of everything! That's what I want to do, just read about, learn, and practice anything I am interested in. And for starters I want to design my home like Jefferson's. Gosh it is gorgeous!
All us girls in the back of it. 20 bucks if you can spot me!?! Golllly! Please remind me next time I think it's cute to do a pose like that at 35 weeks pregnant-that it is most definitely not! Sheesh!
The tulips were gorgeous!! There were thousands of them! A nice man took this picture for us, I asked him to please zoom in close, and to get the tulips...he then asked nervously (i think feeling a little pressure from my specific instructions) "Should I kneel down to take it?" haha. That wont' be necessary-but thanks for asking! I know I am so demanding, I need to tone that down, particularly towards total strangers!
And of course we spent plenty of time goofing off in the gift shop like middle school girls! (Emily was so embarrassed!) And I actually pooped out on a lot of the fun because my feet were killing me at this point. So i was just hanging out in this comfy chair! :) But, all in all (don't you love that phrase-hehe, so lame) it was a fantastic day! I loved riding through the countryside seeing the beauty of spring, chatting with the girls, and learning about some great founding fathers. I love america! haha. (but I really do)

Photo's courtesy of Brittany! Thanks girl!