Today is Oct 13th.
Today we are heading out to Mount Vernon, Virginia to see where President George Washington lived for a time. We stopped at a rest area-park along a river and got out of the car to look around. I asked a jogger what body of water that was. "It's the Potomac." he said with confusion in his eyes. Oh, says I, I am from Washington state.
And if you have been following you know what I think about tourists. Well, guess what? Mount Vernon is a place for tourists, however, as the day went on I decided that we had hit it on a good hour because the longer we were there the longer the lines became. Those pesky buses of children!!!!!
Neither one of these are good AT ALL. I tried taking a picture of a cardinal outside of the kitchen window. That elusive scarlet cardinal, on no, that was the elusive scarlet pimpernel.
The walk way to Mount Vernon
I brought home leaves from this tree that George planted.
This is the residential home, the back side. The front side faces the Potomac, what a view.
Look, the potty has windows.
They put wheat shafts on the floor in this round barn and the horses would go round and round tromping on it and the hulls would fall to the floor below.
This was a slave house.
And Washington lived in the big house on the hill!!!!
Chicken pen, or maybe this is where the children slept.
Stairway to the woods owned by Washington.
I am thinking Mr. Washington was pretty affluent even by today's standards. He had 8ooo acres in the 18th century. They have preserved approx. 500 acres up to this time.
We walked out of the around 4:00 and still didn't see it all. We didn't get pictures of the inside of the mansion, weren't allowed so you have to go and buy your own ticket if you want to see.
This is the front of the mansion with all of it's chairs and the view. I could live there.
Until next time
Love to all
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