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We saw the new Millennium (or Millennium-1, depending upon how you count) in This was the first outing for my new Fujifilm MX-2700 (1800×1200) camera, with which I am |
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For Christmas both Danielle and Linda got Legos — about 3000 in all! That should keep them busy. |
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Waiting to board the train. Our car is already loaded. |
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Sewing lessons while waiting for the train to board. |
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Keeping busy aboard the train by making a stocking for Nicole’s cat, Nipper. The sewing kit was a request to Santa. |
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Relaxing in our cabin. |
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Journal writing. |
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They are constructing a “kitchen” behind one of the houses in Colonial Williamsburg, using 18th century techniques, of course. But wait. What’s that metal scaffolding? After they’d already built an 18th century scaffold, OSHA made them use a 20th century one. Your tax dollars at work. |
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One of the things Colonial Williamsburg is known for at Christmas is its decorations, which use all natural ingredients, in the style of the 18th century. The average wreath is replaced once or twice during the Christmas season because of squirrels! This one is made of dried and fresh flowers. |
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Here is another wreath that I liked. This one incorporates pomegranates, wheat and feathers. |
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Another edible wreath. |
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The stocks. One of only two times on the trip that Danielle wasn’t wiggling. |
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The other time. |
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When you’ve grown up in Florida, ice in a barrel is a real novelty. Hard to believe that two days later it was 72 degrees. |
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The only thing better than a frozen barrel? A frozen pond. |
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Lunch with Pop Pop at the King’s Mill Country Club. |
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Danielle and Pop Pop both like projects. This one is a crystal radio kit. |
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Clowning around while building a crystal radio with Pop Pop.. |
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Golfing on the Woods course at Kingsmill. |
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Our porch at the Williamsburg lodge overlooked a duck pond. It was cold for the first two days, then turned unseasonably warm to welcome in the new year. |
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Playing Ginnie’s piano. Danielle picked out a whole Christmas carol. |
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Black Tie New Year’s Eve party at the Williamsburg Inn. |
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Danielle learned the Foxtrot, Cha Cha, and a bit of the Swing. |
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Steve and Linda dancing just before the stroke of midnight. |
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I call this simply “Millennium Tongue”. |
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That must make this “Millennium Top Hat”. |
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Carriage ride in Colonial Williamsburg. |
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Aboard the carriage. Danielle is wearing her New Year’s Eve party favor — a tiara. |
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Jack and Jill (not necessarily in that order). |
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In jail. |
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Tree climbing. |
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Danielle works on her journal in the top bunk as we head home in a new millennium. |
Category: Wiliamsburg
Williamsburg 1989-2007
My father lived on the King’s Mill Golf Course in Williamsburg, Virginia. We visited him most years, sometimes traveling by auto train. We enjoyed the ambiance of the train, and it’s convenient to have our car and all of Danielle’s “stuff” when we get there.
Dad’s house in King’s Mill,1989.
Dani before her baptism, posing in front of the fireplace at PopPop and GinGin’s house.
The Slide.
On the iced-up pond across the street, January 1997.
This ice is slippery stuff.
Trains are BIG. That red dot is Danielle. January 1998.
Boarding the train, January 1998.
Linda locks Danielle and Pop Pop into the Pillory, Colonial Williamsburg, January 1998.
Silversmith, Colonial Williamsburg, January 1998.
Windmill, Colonial Williamsburg, January 1998.
Behind the Governor’s Mansion, Colonial Williamsburg, January 1998.
Golfing with Dad, December 1998.
With Miss Manderly, a character from the American Girls Felicity book, Colonial Williamsburg, December 1998.
In the lobby of the Williamsburg Inn, between Christmas and New Year’s, 1999
Dancing in the dining room of the Williamsburg Inn, between Christmas and New Year’s, 1999
Blacksmith Shop. Thanksgiving, 2001.
Thanksgiving, 2001.
The Capitol. Thanksgiving, 2001.
Carter’s Grove. Thanksgiving, 2001.
Thanksgiving, 2001.
Gunsmith Shop. Thanksgiving, 2001.
Thanksgiving, 2001.
Thanksgiving, 2001.
Thanksgiving, 2001.
Thanksgiving, 2002.
Thanksgiving, 2002.
Thanksgiving, 2002.
Thanksgiving, 2002.
Thanksgiving, 2002.
Thanksgiving, 2005 Parade.
Thanksgiving, 2005 Shop.
Thanksgiving, 2005 walking to a witch trial reenactment.
Thanksgiving, 2005 at Ford’s Colony.
Thanksgiving 2007. At the Williamsburg Inn for Thanksgiving dinner, Reggie brought Dani a PB&J sandwich for old times sake.