Our trip

Now, first of all let me say we were supposed to go to DC for our Valentine's / it's been four years / we need a break before J. runs off and leaves again to some far off place vacation.  Gigi and Avo came and conquered--thank you all very much!  But it was not to be for the little trip to DC because Snowmageddon fell on it a week before and then again the day before we left. 
So with no agenda, no plan, no place to stay we jumped in the car and ran for our lives before I changed my mind :)  We ended up going to Colonial Williamsburg....very quaint but not so pretty in the summer but I did manage to find an adorable outfit for G at a boutique there which is always a plus.  Then on to Charlottesville where everyone keeps saying "why there???"  and the answer is b/c without going to DC there really isn't a whole heck of a lot to do around here and we wanted to go to Monticello.....so we did.  And then spent the evening in an Inn/ Spa which just so happens to be a golf / tennis resort too ( I know) and just so happened to be hosting a Men's College Tennis Tournament.  Lots of SEC teams were there one of them being AL so we (along with only two other people there) cheered on the Tide as they proceeded to get spanked by UVA the home team.  AU wasn't there so not sure what that was about b/c nearly every other SEC team was...but anyway..the only other people from AL were our friends for just a little while and come to find out the wife of the couple we were talking to was Coach Oppert's daughter (y'all from Dothan will get that)  and it was crazy how small a world it is.....and then even crazier we had a guy come up to J. w/ his AU hat on and he said War Eagle but was wearing UVA stuff....perplexing but he looked familiar.  So after much contemplation I approached him too...why not , right?  Turns out he also is from Dothan and we went to middle and high school together....again y'all from Dothan will get this: Nick Leverett--who went to AU and then UVA law school , ended up in Charlottesville, VA.  CRAZY!!!
Okay enough of my tennis tourney freakiness.  We moved on from CHarlottesville and started out Civil War battlefields journey....Wilderness Battleground(one of the bloodiest) , CHancellorsville (where Stonewall Jackson was accidentally shot by his own men) , Fredericksburg ( huge Union graveyard and where Lee  took on Longstreet I think--I'll double check myself) Lastly on the way home we stopped by Stonewall's place of death.  It was amazing to see that.  Crazy to think that in those times they carried him by "Ambulance" all the way there and brought in doctors from all over to tend to him where he later died.  Kind of weird but his arm is buried in a different place, he was shot in one place, died in one and buried in Lexington, KY. I will say perheps the most interesting this about the whole experience was to learn just how very spiritual the Civil War Leaders were.....I think Stonewall's last words say it all : "Let us pass over the river and rest under the shade of the trees."
  Not the romantic weekend we had hoped for but fun nonetheless.  Next time I'll listen to J. and go to the bahamas....ha