A Seriously Busy Day

We took my family and Christophers family to Jamestown to seap in the rich history of the area and well to show off the pirate ships to the boys. Hopefully the asults go to enjoy the museum while we chased around the boys.

Ali was all dressed in her colonial garb and had LOTS of requests to be in other peoples pictures. (Chris's mom made all the kids colonial outfits or got them three cornered hats! More on that later).

We had fun wandering around the encampment and Ali got to try her hand at crushing corn:

I think the biggest hit was the ships though. They are just so cool! Aiden and Sam had a blast crawling in and out of the bunk beds. Those totally gross me out because of the smell but apparently it doesn't bother little boys.

I made one of the twins try and fit his head out the tiny window on the side, what a good sport he was!

We of course had to take MANY pictures of the whole fam so that Mel has lots of good options for the christmas card!

Then it was on to the Fort where the boys had fun putting on all the armor and wacking each other... well the tree behind them got the worst of it.



We headed over to the gun demonstration and forced shy little Ali to take a picture with the guy afterwards. Thats what happens when you wear your colonial clothes!

Since we were already right there I suggested we take the ferry over and pick some strawberries at College Run Farms. The cute girl who owns the farm had delivered her second little boy that morning! We had fun driving onto the ferry and then throwing scraps Jan had collected at the Jamestown cafe off the end of the ship for the seagulls.

We were lucky and hit the farm RIGHT at the peak of strawberries. They were gorgeous and plentiful! Liam didn't bother with trivial things like a bucket. He just plopped himself down at what he deemed was a good spot and went to town on the bush next to him.

Claire found some good ones (looking so stylish!)

Derek and Dallin were very discerning on which ones were good enough to be picked

Luckily Mel had brought Ali a change of clothes so she didn't have to tromp through the fields in her colonial outfit!

And we got a pretty nice group shot minus a few grandparents.

After loading up the car with our strawberries and our tummies with strawberry ice cream we headed back to the ferry. It was still early afternoon so I suggested we head to waller mill and take out the paddle boats.

At first I was going to leave Liam on shore with my mom but he got so excited when everyone started putting on life jackets and I just couldn't say no.

The main mistake we made though was not having one of the twins with us. Man your legs get tired after a while!

Luckily we did have Claire because man were Sam and Liam ALL over the boat.

Sam tried to stear most of the time which meant we spent the bulk of the hour going in circles! It was a very fun day and writing this post is making me throughly depressed that I only have one more week here.