So...
Friday we decided to do some sightseeing before heading home :). We wanted to find the White House of the Confederacy and monument lane (more later), and also the church that Patrick Henry gave his famous "Give me liberty, or give me death" speech at, and Robert E. Lee attended. (By the way, Robert E. Lee's daughter has a journal that has been published that I greatly enjoyed reading a few years ago. I'll have to ask Grandma for the exact name, as I borrowed it from her.
Updated: It is "Growing Up in the 1850s: The Journal of Agnes Lee Edited and with a forward by Mary Custis Lee deButts). So after packing up the hotel, and getting everybody in the car, we tried to find all that we were looking for ;)...
Let it be known that we had had trouble with the map the whole trip, and we had ended up on strange roads that we would find again in strange places later. But this was, by far, the best ;)...
Daddy would call out what street he was on, asking Mommy to find it, but the map didn't even say the name of some of the streets! Mommy would finally find a street he named and tell him where it looked like he needed to go, but VA seems to have a LOT of no left-turn roads. So Daddy wouldn't be able to turn, and we would have to start the process over again!
Peter-bug
kept me entertained :). I think he'll be another photographer-
he LOVES
the camera! Here you see him trying to take it from me ;).
Our van's reflection in a building with mirrors on the sides, haha :).
Yes, we have a fifteen passenger van :).
This went on for a while! We finally found the church (I didn't get pictures), and then we headed on to try to find the White House of the Confederacy.
Again, the process of finding a road, not being able to use it, and then trying to find a nameless road, was continued. Have you ever watched "Courageous"? Do you remember that scene where Nathan is calling David to come help him on Oakview, and David answers "Oakview ? I haven't even found Hartford yet!"? Yes, Daddy brought that up ;). He also at one time started calling out random words as street names- "...Charity- Mercy!" No, there was no street called Mercy there ;).
Finally, in faked desperation (although it was getting a bit ridiculous!), Mommy answered Daddy's "Where do I go?" with "I don't know... first we drive on these yellow curvy lines, and then we drive on this long, gray line."
Mommy said she thought the map was made by someone who knew that there was a street somewhere around that area, but that they didn't really know where, so they just drew ;).
We were laughing sooo hard by this point!!! And Tori only made it better by exclaiming...
"Mommy! look! A yellow curved line!!!"
And then...
"And a straight gray one!!!!"
Haha :)! We did, eventually, find our destination; the White House of the Confederacy. Which was up against the ER and surrounded by ambulances, which is why we had such a hard time finding it ;).
Here
is the door, taken through the window, with Tori's reflection in it,
which I didn't realize was there until after I pulled the picture up on
the computer... oh well :). We found it, and we have proof :).
