We headed to the plantation home of Thomas Jefferson. They have a new visitor center with a museum that gave a very interesting insight on the planter/gentleman side of our third US President. One of the things they highlighted was his ardent penchant for record keeping. He recorded the weather & temperature almost without fail at least twice and sometimes three times a day for 40 years. Sounds more OCD that ardent if you ask me. In addition to daily logs and journals, he wrote over 20,000 letters in his life - can you imagine??
The kids had already learned quite a bit about Jefferson's political life with regards to American Independence, so it was great to have them see this side of him too. We took a house tour and then roamed around the grounds - he had a particular interest in exotic flowers and imported all sorts of interesting specimens. His vegetable garden was amazing. The whole setting was beautiful with the fall color - it was easy to see why Jefferson always said that there was no place he would rather be.
In honor of Halloween (my least favorite holiday), we put a few decorations up in the RV and went to see "Where The Wild Things Are"-strange movie! Kambria has plans to for all of the kids to carve oranges instead of pumpkins tomorrow so we can fit them in the RV - keep you posted on that.
We went to Monticello in September. It is a beautiful place. I loved the huge touch screen walls in the museum that had all the floating words and paragraphs that gave you the information you were intereted in. Did you happen to see that? The garden there was pretty amazing. Quite the setting sitting up on top of the hill with the territorial view.
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