Williamsburg

Yesterday, we got up and drove toward Williamsburg, stopping in Richmond to earn Jr Ranger badges for the Richmond Battlefields. We stopped at a couple of battlefield sites, but rain kept us from getting out and walking around. We did spend an hour at Cold Harbor, a small visitor center that had a real nice electric map that detailed two civil war battles, one in 1862 and the other in 1864.

In the afternoon we spent a few hours at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. We bought a pass that would allow us to visit all the Busch Garden and Sea World parks for two years. It was our first time visiting this park, although we have been to Busch Gardens in Tampa and Sea World in San Diego.

Each area of the park is themed to a different country in Europe - England, France, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, and Italy - and they were all decorated for Halloween. It's a nice park. It doesn't have a lot of large family rides like a Disney park, but the landscaping is pretty, with fairly heavy surrounding woods.

We would have stayed longer, but the rain caused us to call it a night. Unfortunately it rained pretty hard all day today, so we just sat around the RV. My wife did scrapbooking and I worked and the kids did some school work and played games.