Yorktown and Jamestown

The weather was better on Sunday, so we spent the whole day at Busch Gardens. We bought a pass that would allow us to visit all the Busch Garden and Sea World parks for two years.

Busch Gardens has several fun coasters, a couple of family rides, and some shows. It also has a kids area, the Land of Dragons, which the kids enjoyed. We did almost everything, including a Halloween maze that night.

Monday morning we went to nearby Yorktown, where Washington won his decisive victory over the British gave the Colonies their independence. We explored the visitor center as well as driving around the battlefield and the surrender memorial.

In the afternoon we drove the Colonial Parkway through Williamsburg to Historic Jamestown, on the bank of the James River. Jamestown was the first permanent English colony in North America, where John Smith and Pocahontas once walked. Although the original fort is long gone, there are several memorial statues. A brand new visitor center is currently under construction, and the kids found the glass-making area very interesting.

The kids earned Junior Ranger programs at both sites of the Colonial National Historic Park.