williamsburg vacation day 1

Tuesday morning, my husband woke myself and the boys at 3:00 a.m.  Yes, I said 3 a.m.!  We were leaving for our remainder of our summer vacation to Williamsburg, Virginia.  My husband told the boys to go back to sleep in the car.  Bob did, but SJ wouldn't go back to sleep. 

It is a VERY long drive to Williamsburg.  It was just short of 7 hours.  We stopped around 8 a.m. somewhere in Maryland to get donuts for breakfast.  We continued on our journey while we ate in the car.  We arrived at our hotel, The Woodlands, a little after 11. 

Our room was ready, so I checked in and got our tickets.  We placed our luggage in our room and drove to Busch Gardens.  It was somewhat crowded and it was very hot and humid.  The boys were a little crabby when we first got there.  Neither of them wanted to ride anything and there was A LOT of complaining. 

We realized that they were hungry and that was probably the source of the grumpiness.  After eating lunch in Italy, the boys’ behavior improved tons.  We rode some rides in Italy (my favorite was Apollo’s Chariot) and then moved on to Germany.  The boys enjoyed the swings.  We split up then so that SJ could ride a roller coaster, Verbolten, with my husband and Bob and I rode bumper cars. 

After Germany, we walked through England.  Bob really was enthralled with the gray wolves and bald eagles.  We eventually found France and my husband was dying to ride an incredible coaster, The Griffin.  SJ didn't want to ride it (Bob definitely didn't want to ride it...he's afraid of heights!), so we waited near the bottom.  When the coaster came down the hill, there was a huge splash of water.  The boys loved getting cooled off while we waited for my husband to come down the hill!

We left Busch Gardens around 6 p.m.  We made it back to our hotel room and learned there was a pool party for kids.  I took the boys to the pool area and my husband ordered food from a local take out restaurant.  After the pool party, we returned to our room and ate dinner. 

Our hotel had a mini golf, table tennis, badminton, corn hole and shuffleboard.  The boys were super excited to try out the mini golf.  We started golfing as the sun was going down.  It was a great way to end our first day of vacation. 

When we got back to our room, the boys were so exhausted that they passed out almost immediately.  It wouldn't be a typical vacation for us if we didn't pass out from exhaustion.  Three more days that will be activity and fun filled.